http://www.cranbrookdesign.com/index.php/topics/more/an_interview_with_bethany_shorb_of_cyberoptix_tielab_hand_silkscreened_ties/
http://cyberoptix.com/

CranbrookDesign.com. An independent initiative, created by Alumni from the Cranbrook Academy of Art design departments. The project aims to expose alumni work and stimulate design discourse. The community is open to be joined and enjoyed by all.

everybody knows baidu’s website is www.baidu.com

but they have another one, http://www.mamashuojiusuannizhucedeyumingzaichangbaidudounengsousuochulai.cn/

which means “mom said no matter how long your website address is, baidu always can find out….”

http://artofthetrench.com/

Gestalt is a psychology term which means “unified whole”. It refers to theories of visual perception developed by German psychologists in the 1920s. These theories attempt to describe how people tend to organize visual elements into groups or unified wholes when certain principles are applied.

http://graphicdesign.spokanefalls.edu/tutorials/process/gestaltprinciples/gestaltprinc.htm

GRAPHIC(ISSN 1975-7905) is a quarterly magazine published in Seoul, Korea. GRAPHIC, which was first published in January 2006, focuses its attention on the other trends of graphic design which is different from the mainstream of it and on the phenomena thereof. It has a characteristic of in-depth approach for one theme with the editorial policy of one issue-one theme.

GRAPHIC is an independent magazine which does not depend upon sponsors or any governmental organizations for financial help but rather aims at more creative and independent journalism by emancipating its own editorship from them.

http://graphicmag.kr/

Vincent’s book Self-Made Man retells an eighteen-month experiment in which she disguised herself as a male. She talked about it in HARDtalk extra on BBC on April 21, 2006 and described her experiences in male-male and male-female relationships. She joined an all-male bowling club, joined a men’s therapy group, went to strip clubs and visited Catholic monks in a cloister. She dated women and describes how inferior she felt^[7]. Vincent writes about how the only time she has ever been considered excessively feminine was during her stint as a man: her alter-ego, Ned, was assumed to be gay on several occasions, and features which in her as a woman had been seen as “butch” became oddly effeminate when seen in a man. Vincent asserts that, since the experiment, she has never been more glad to be female.

I have many regrets. Too many. Mostly they are related to time. As I see all the things I have to do and want to do, and feel all the inadequacies of who I am and what I know, I weigh that against the time I have, which makes me want to go back and steal a few years—just a few—from my past.

I deeply regret not going to university or college because I very much wish I had a solid knowledge of art and design history and theory. But instead, I traveled, and I worked as a typesetter—which combined to make an excellent, but informal, education. Who is to say, really, which would have been better?

I regret spending 10 years as a book typesetter, instead of maybe five or six—I feel like I learned most of what I was going to in the first six years. But on the other hand, I do remember making some egregious mistakes when Quark first came out, in the year before I left. Maybe I needed that extra time, just to be slapped away from fucking with the type just because I could. And can you ever really spend too long working with type? Not really.

I regret the years I spent as a graphic designer, complaining about clients and churning out the posters, brochures and identities. But I learned so much, and the things you learn the hard way are often the most valuable. And if I hadn’t worn myself out to the very end, if I hadn’t completely wrung that side of my career dry, down to the last drop, perhaps I never would have made the leap to where I am now. Sometimes you just have to pass through the fire.

I regret not being more engaged or aware through all my years as a designer. When I finally lifted my head up and looked around I had decades to catch up on and I’m still so ignorant and so far behind. There is no upside to this.

But I will never regret walking away from my design business and starting something new. I wish I had done it sooner—but maybe I couldn’t have done it sooner. I was 40, and maybe I needed to be 40. Maybe I needed to have the experience, both good and bad, piled up in my past to push me forward. Maybe it’s a little like playing the blues: 20- and 30-year olds can do a lot of things, but they can’t really play the blues. Maybe it was like that.

I’ve been well rewarded for my efforts. Every day I get an email from someone who has been touched or inspired by a piece of mine. It’s more valuable than laser-cut gold foil stamping on velvet-flocked paper. And if the extra years of feeling the blues are what it took, it was worth it.

http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/singing-the-blues

Filmmaker and photographer Andrew Zuckerman thinks hard-won insights should be shared. That’s why he’s releasing The Wisdom Project, a one-hour documentary film and companion book that share the collective experiences of 51 luminaries over age 65, including authors, artists, and world leaders from Willie Nelson to Nelson Mandela.

Inspired by the ancient African concept of ubuntu, which emphasizes human connectedness—I am what I am because of who we all are—Zuckerman set out to gather and communicate the lessons his extraordinary subjects have learned about love, work, the environment, and conflict resolution. “We live in a confusing and fast-changing world,” says the filmmaker. “It’s a great time to look to our elders, to see what they have to say that can help us.”

http://theanthropologist.net/#/AndrewZuckerman/Trust/Wisdom
http://www.apple.com/pro/profiles/wisdom/
http://www.swiss-miss.com/2008/09/wisdom-by-andre.html

http://www.limmy.com/blog/playthings/

Try http://www.limmy.com/playthings/comeagain/
and http://www.limmy.com/playthings/xylophone/
or http://www.limmy.com/playthings/gouch/

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For the first time, the 153 year old luxury fashion house Burberry will be streaming its show live from London Fashion Week at live.burberry.com.  Viewers worldwide will be able to share their thoughts on the collection in real time as they watch the show.

The show signals the longest catwalk at LFW of 40m and the longest front row.  This is also the first time the Parade Ground will be used to host a fashion show.  The Burberry show space is within walking distance from the recently opened Burberry Global Headquarters at Horseferry house, designed by Christopher Bailey, Burberry Creative Director, where Christopher and Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts will be hosting an event to mark the brand’s involvement in London Fashion Week following the show.

Until The Light Takes Us tells the story of black metal. Part music scene and part cultural uprising, black metal rose to worldwide notoriety in the mid-nineties when a rash of suicides, murders, and church burnings accompanied the explosive artistic growth and output of a music scene that would forever redefine what heavy metal is and what it stands for to other musicians, artists, and music fans world-wide. Directors Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell moved to Norway and lived the musicians for several years, building relationships that allowed them to create a surprisingly intimate portrait of this violent, but ultimately misunderstood, movement. The result is a poignant, moving story that’s as much about the idea that reality is composed of whatever the most people believe as it is about a music scene that blazed a path of murder and arson across the northern sky.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/untilthelighttakesus/