November 28, 2008 |
Posted in Daily Life
Are certain sleep habits more likely to lead to success?
Japan’s leading writer Haruki Murakamim, goes to sleep daily, at 10p.m. and wakes up between the hours of 4-5 a.m. That leads to about 6-7 hours of sleep a night. (Link)
This Google page has a huge list about successful people and their sleep habits:
Bill Clinton [...]
November 23, 2008 |
Posted in Arts & Design, Process
I’ve been working on a new project for the past two months and today decided to make my process transparent. The project in essence is a bootstrapped design company (HelloNoam), one that self-designs, and produces products and publications. I’m hoping to self publish my first book in the coming three weeks, a bit behind at [...]
November 21, 2008 |
Posted in Arts & Design
I looked at Bruce Mau’s book Life Style before, but was always either intimidated by it’s huge size, or too distracted to actually dive into the content or see the overall theme. This week one of my professors recommended that I look at Mau’s work, and so I picked up Life Style at my school library. [...]
November 9, 2008 |
Posted in Arts & Design
Typography, even when poorly executed, can never be taken for granted; not is it ever accidental. Indeed, beautifully typeset pages are always the result of long experience.
Good typography has a simple structure.
The argument about symmetry and asymmetry is futile. They each have their own areas and special possibilities.
I stumbled on The Form of the Book: Essays on the [...]
November 6, 2008 |
Posted in Arts & Design
Massimo Vignelli describes modernism as the
“commitment against greed, commercialization, exploitation, vulgarization and cheapness.” †
In essence the sustainability movement is modernism with a new name. The green movement is against greed (or gathering materials beyond the essentials), against commercialization (and instead about going local), against exploitation (which means supporting fair work environments), and against cheapness (which means [...]
November 4, 2008 |
Posted in Daily Life, Snapshots
Six a.m. and the line already wrapped around the school!
One hour later…
Waiting…
Success!
