How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer by Debbie Millman
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Allworth Press, 2007
How acquired: Purchased at Debbie Millman lecture
This collection of interviews presents 20 noted graphic design-related figures ruminating about their activity. In her introduction, Debbie Millman disclaims the book’s title but it’s fairly descriptive, being instructive by example rather than [...]
The Chronographic Survey #1: How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer
The Great 3rd Grade Juice Pouch Riot
Yesterday, I volunteered to help out at my daughter’s Emma’s third grade picnic. It’s a one-hour lunch followed by outdoor fun at the park next door. Because of the 100°+ heat-indexed weather, the picnic was held in the cafeteria. My task was to oversee the beverages: keep them stocked and on ice. Even I can [...]
Do Not Read Me I Am Boring
On Stefan Sagmeister’s Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far
The arguments these artists mount to the detraction of beauty come down to a single gripe: Beauty sells, and although their complaints usually are couched in the language of academic radicalism, they do not differ greatly from my grandmother’s haut bourgeois prejudices against people [...]
