17th
June
2005
A conversation with Julie Lasky: “I.D. was founded in 1954 as Industrial Design. It was a smart, attractive magazine that celebrated post-World War II industrial production with an emphasis on the larger cultural forces shaping–and shaped by–design. Over the years, the name was abbreviated to match professional shorthand, and in the late 1980s the initials came to represent something else entirely: International Design.” (Thanks InfoDesign!)
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17th
June
2005
“Camouflage, you might think, is about blending in. But just as often, and especially these days, it’s about standing out. Camouflage hides shapes by generating hints of many other possible shapes. Instead of staying silent, in other words, camouflage succeeds by being noisy: it hides signal with noise. Socially and esthetically, too, camouflage is more and more often about advertising allegiance.” (Thanks Coudal Partners!)
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17th
June
2005
“Few people know that before he started making movies, Stanley Kubrick was a star photojournalist. Six weeks after graduating from high school, Kubrick went to work for Look magazine the way other kids went to college. Much later, Kubrick called his job at Look ‘a miraculous break.’ It taught him a lot about photography, but more that that, Look ‘gave me a quick education in how things happened in the world.’ In the summer of 1949, Look sent him to Chicago to shoot the pictures for a story by Irv Kupcinet. He brought back 40 rolls of film and a rare record of his own education as a filmmaker.” (Slideshow)
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17th
June
2005
“In October 2003, several hundred graphic designers gathered in Vancouver for the American Institute of Graphic Arts’ biennial conference. For three days, they argued, debated, and fulminated over what seemed a daunting question: How could they make the world — especially the business world — understand the power of design? Today, that challenge seems quaint, even antiquated. If anything, companies now face the question’s inverse: How can you not see the power of design?”
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