to accompany guster's new single from the album easy wonderful: "do you love me."

to those who stick it out, to my friends, i love you.

too much design!

I forgot to post this from Friday. Color board + a happy list.

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++ 100 colors & 100 days of writing (jennifer robichaux, this is your summer project.)

++ field notes, why are you so beautiful?

++ i'm totally in love with the t.25 car. it's designed to be recycled once it's life is up, and made into another car. it's gets 61 mpg and is smaller than a smart car, but fits 3 adults. smart redesign. i'm also loving the diorama photos.

Bruce Mau's Incomplete Manifesto.

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I'm (still) reading Glimmer, and I find Bruce Mau crazy and totally wonderful. His Incomplete Manifesto is full of inspiration "rules" for life/design. I'm going to make these on cards and try to lay out one a day, or at least a few a week.

s l o w d o w n

today, even at work, seemed sort of rushed. my brain was racing and my breathing was shallow. i sit for too long in front of a computer screen.

so tonight after a walk with jen,

i laid on my bed and slowed down. and i thought of these things.

white tile.

ceiling fans.

heartbeats.

the feeling of smooth legs.

shampoo'd hair.

how nice boys smell.

heartbeats.

rain when you are inside.

white kitchen light.

soft nighttime light.

this kind of piano: charlie winston.

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today i made two things based on a color palate from photographer ye rin mok. the reasoning behind this is two fold: one, find new and innovative (and possibly not so great) color combinations. two, understand color, why photographs evoke a certain feeing, and how design might do something similar.

i hope to do at least a few of these a week.

(typeface: futura)

(typeface: gill sans. lyrics: cat power.)

:)

find a place to jump in to the blue

i couldn't get a good picture, but aren't these neons great? this place is now a bar.

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near the hobby center.

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at work, i take little breaks to stretch my brain, eyes, and pen.

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i really do believe that only boring people get bored. and inversely, i think i'm becoming boring because of all the boredom that occurs throughout the day. i think i now know that actually, i do need to interact with people. an office/workspace is great. but not for 8 hours. i do not want a 9-5 job my entire life, that i know for sure.

reading glimmer and the wisdom of bruce mau is so interesting, and really reframing my perspective on businesses and consumer goods/services in general. i'm trying to fit together a few different things, like how design can reach a broad amount of people, or how it can affect people... or working alongside the non-profit world.

i'm obsessed with poco-cocoa and abbytrysagain. thankgoodness for austin in two days.

so very young, were we

+ continuing my design sketching. top two are from jack kerouac's on the road (of which i am fighting to finish. 20 more pages!). last is from death cab's 'talking bird.' the open door ep version is so pretty and sad.

+ the fonts are new! myfont.com has really nice free fonts. museo, mimix, & coolvetica, in order.

+ noble beast is andrew bird's best, for sure.

+ today was a day of on-a-whim (driving, eating, buying, moving furniture,etc.)

+ coffeeshop count: three.

+ happy easter/passover!

pale and mild, a modern girl.

Just a few quick thoughts.

+ i can no longer be on fb out of solidarity! therefore, i shall muse and post witticisms here. :)

+ want to be amused? click.

+ this summer (/starting asap) i need to give myself a design education. realizing that school is not enough isn't going to make me a better designer. but doing outside reading and pushing myself to work in my sketchbook daily will. suthara, a visiting designer and one of tuan's classmates/lovers came to speak today. she showed her students work, which was absolutely incredible. she taught a class based around paul thek's four dimensional design questions- see below. they answered all of these throughout 15 projects a week for 12 weeks, working through the history of graphic design. so intense.

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+ "our bodies are therefore built from the fossilized debris of once-bright stars that annihilated themselves aeons before the earth or sun existed."

+ "these elements are the ashes of the nuclear fires that sustain the stars." both quotes are from paul davies' superforce. i'm reading it for science. generally not enjoyable, but these words and concepts are amazing.

+ this is a beautifully designed information graphic.

+ san francisco cable car picture! california was quite pretty overall. getting sick was rather detrimental, as was my family's fighting, but i'd like to go back.

sketches.

it's good to practice. i'm going to start practicing design by making little 'cards' with words/quotes on them. this line came from an email from tuan, one of my design professors. he didn't mean it in an epic sense... but i was going through my inbox and it got me.

any ideas/amazing lines for me to illustrate?

some links to check out:

+ new reproductions of predicta tvs!

+ hellojenuine pretty illustrations

+ hellomargo! my cargocollective website. free hosting! so cool.

have a great weekend!