davidthedesigner

"there was like four or five people who were in graphics...

...who have subsequently done very well."

Keith Bright - one of 20 outstanding Los Angeles designers, 1986.

even in adelaide

"> love your site!
> It is great to feel like part of a design community, even in Adelaide,"
> julie pieda, Australia

art and design

“Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.”

David Hockney

compulsory corsets

I do sometimes have to smile about the way that people end up on this blog: for instance, somebody's just done a Google search for 'compulsory corsets'; and what do they get? They get this.

Not exactly what they were expecting, I'm sure.

it doesn't matter what you think

Some design wisdom from Milton Glaser:

"Last year someone gave me a charming book by Roger Rosenblatt called 'Ageing Gracefully'. I got it on my birthday. I did not appreciate the title at the time but it contains a series of rules for ageing gracefully. The first rule is the best. Rule number one is that 'it doesn't matter.' 'It doesn't matter what you think. Follow this rule and it will add decades to your life. It does not matter if you are late or early, if you are here or there, if you said it or didn't say it, if you are clever or if you were stupid. If you were having a bad hair day or a no hair day or if your boss looks at you cockeyed or your boyfriend or girlfriend looks at you cockeyed, if you are cockeyed. If you don't get that promotion or prize or house or if you do - it doesn't matter.' Wisdom at last.

A week or two later I read a joke that I haven't been able to get out of my head. A butcher was opening his market one morning and as he did a rabbit popped his head through the door. The butcher was surprised when the rabbit inquired 'Got any cabbage?' The butcher said 'This is a meat market - we sell meat, not vegetables.' The rabbit hopped off. The next day the butcher is opening the shop and sure enough the rabbit pops his head round and says 'You got any cabbage?' The butcher now irritated says 'Listen you little rodent I told you yesterday we sell meat, we do not sell vegetables and the next time you come here I am going to grab you by the throat and nail those floppy ears to the floor.' The rabbit disappeared hastily and nothing happened for a week. Then one morning the rabbit popped his head around the corner and said 'Got any nails?' The butcher said 'No.' The rabbit said 'OK. Got any cabbage?'"

this made me smile #23

The Knight Rider dashboard project.

if you're in london this weekend...

...then I'd suggest making a trip over to Wembley for the three-day Festival that is the Shishu Mela. I've been involved with the marketing and providing a few graphics, and I'll be helping to set up later on today. In return, I'll get the chance to see the great Sivamani:

You know me: I'm a sucker for a good drum solo.

he never thought he'd end up working for microsoft

But this is pretty amazing, none the less.

(via O.K. BLOG)

don't get lost in the woods

I've never once felt the need to design a logo based upon a tree. Plenty of people have though.

I wonder why?

trajan again

As Stef points out (in response to my post about Bath), the typeface Trajan was designed for Adobe by Carol Twomby and based upon the inscription at the base of Trajan's Column in Rome. If you'd like to know more, here's a description of the typeface, here's a brief bio of Carol Twomby, and here's more info about the original inscription.