The Tremendous 10 link roundup, #17
- Mood Lines: Setting the Tone of Your Design | “Through repeated use, certain patterns and lines have gained universally recognized meanings.” (via Chris Glass)
- Some of Today’s Most Prominent Artists on Courage, Creativity, Criticism, Success, and What It Means to Be a Great Artist | “Wisdom from Ai Weiwei, Marina Abramović, Damien Hirst, Laurie Simmons, Carroll Dunham, and more.”
- Exclusive First Read: Scott McCloud’s ‘The Sculptor’ | “Cartoonist and theorist Scott McCloud is sometimes called the “Aristotle of Comics” because of his three landmark nonfiction works: Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics, and Making Comics. He’s a man who’s spent a lot of time thinking about making art — and that’s reflected in The Sculptor, his first full-length graphic novel.”
- The Most Important Design Lessons Of 2014 | “More companies than ever identify as design-led organizations. Yet the nuts and bolts of how to “do design” remain mysterious to many.”
- Typography Lessons From the Masters | “Curious about a random fact on Burns’ middle years, I began Googling around, and came across a page that referenced a Burns quote on typography from a 1960s-era issue of Print.”
- Why Star Clipper’s Owners Shuttered Their Beloved St. Louis Comic Book Shop | “After 27 years in business, the beloved Delmar Loop institution will close its doors sometime in February.”
- Lots of wisdom from Christoph Niemann’s brilliant Redddit AMA | “Christoph Niemann is one of our creative heroes, an illustrator and artist whose talent, imagination and sense of humour puts him smack bang in the top drawer.”
- It’s never been more important for design firms to think differently | “They’ve worked on improving their processes and polish, but they haven’t changed how they think in over a decade.”
- Thoughts on Becoming an Adventurer | “So, you want to be a professional adventurer? You want to go beyond simply doing great journeys in your spare time, holidays or sabbaticals. Here are a few thoughts, for what they’re worth, about what I’ve learned over the last few years about turning my hobby into my job.” (via kottke)
- The Weird Science of Naming New Products | “The oddity is that for all the weight a company places on choosing names, the decisions arise from a process that couldn’t be less corporate.”
Image by zevendesign, after Landscape Architecture, by John Ormsbee Simonds.
