I meant to post this back when the movie was still out but now seems as good a time as any.
I’m off to see Ant-Man tonight, anyone after further Marvel fixes:
– Why does Marvel clash with its directors?
– GRRM likes Ant-Man but wants some asymettric hero-villan powers
– A brainteaser (this is tough):
Let's play the physique game! Order from largest to smallest: Spider-Man, Daredevil, Black Panther, Iron Fist. (Mass, not height.)
— Andrew Wheeler (@Wheeler) July 23, 2015
Beautiful Flickr set of General Dynamics Astronautics Space Cards.
Hand Drawn Logos from Seb Lester on Vimeo.
Los Angeles–based designer Emily McDowell was diagnosed with Stage 3 Hodgkin’s lymphoma at age 24, enduring nine months of chemo and radiation before going into remission.
“The most difficult part of my illness wasn’t losing my hair, or being erroneously called ‘sir’ by Starbucks baristas, or sickness from chemo,” McDowell writes on her website. “It was the loneliness and isolation I felt when many of my close friends and family members disappeared because they didn’t know what to say, or said the absolute wrong thing without realizing it.”
Emily is now cancer-free and has made a set of, quite frankly, amazing empathy cards.
After combing through all 362 pages of Kitchen Confidential, I realized it was the best book on graphic design that I’ve ever read. Through every page, I realized that even though he was speaking to the rough and tumble kitchen crowd, he could also be speaking to the tight-jean-war-time-era-haircuts of the graphic design world.
More accurately Steve St Pierre on Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential as a Design Agency primer. Probably many other worlds too.
A tidbit:
Don’t steal. This is a given. From your peers or employers. From your peers, you can treat them as sources of inspiration. I spend a good chunk of time on Brand New, BP&O, Designspiration. I soak it in via osmosis and just let it settle, and those influences’ll slowly work their way out through my mouse finger. But don’t steal, you asshole. This community is tiny. We’re all working our asses off. And lord knows yours will be handed to you by the social media army if you decide to nip another’s piece. I speak from experience (from the good side, obviously).
