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Paul Rand

rocque — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:28:38 +0000

Emil Ruder in Typographie

rocque — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:34:40 +0000

(…) discipline, coolness and objectivity will continue to be the cardinal features of typography in the future since its nature is largely decided by its dependence on technique and function.

(…) What was useful has become unusable but nevertheless displays all those charms inherent in so many useless things.

Emil Ruder in Typographie

Typographie

rocque — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 03:02:53 +0000

“(…) For Emil Ruder space has never been merely a lifeless paper surface to be covered with lettering or ornamentation at will. In his hands the passive background is transformed into a vital and active foreground. Every piece of typography thus becomes a picture in which black and white are played off against each other; indeed, an effect of depth is often created, the eye being led by lines or rows into a third dimension. (…)”

Preface by Adrian Frutiger of Emil Ruder’s book “Typographie”.

Some design thoughts

rocque — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:29:20 +0000

“It’s not rocket science. It’s social science-the science of understanding people’s needs and their unique relationship with art, literature, history, music, work, philosophy, community, technology, and psychology. The act of design is structuring and creating that balance.”

Clement Mok

Dissociar x Associar

rocque — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:23:11 +0000

“A liberdade de espírito, isto é, a potência do intelecto, mede-se por sua capacidade de dissociar idéias tradicionalmente inseparáveis. Dissociar idéias é muito mais difícil que associá-las. O entendimento humano nunca teve maior capacidade de dissociação do que agora.”

José Ortega y Gasset - A Rebelião das Massas

Aurora

rocque — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:18:02 +0000

Aurora (Part 1) from Adaptive Path on Vimeo.

Reading time

rocque — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:56:45 +0000

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Dieter Rams’s innovations in design, 1956 to 1974

rocque — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:23:37 +0000

“Design is often applied to impress and make things chic. My intention is to omit every unnecessary element in order to place the essentials in the foreground.”

Dieter Rams

Major in learning

rocque — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:06:38 +0000

“It’s easy to educate for the routine, and hard to educate for the novel. Keep in mind that many required skills will change: developers today code in something called Python, but when I was in school C was all the rage. The need for reasoning, though, remains constant, so we believe in taking the most challenging courses in core disciplines: math, sciences, humanities.”

Google’s advice to students

Learn from mistakes

rocque — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:03:23 +0000

“If all you ever do is all you’ve ever done, then all you’ll ever get is all you ever got.”

An old saying in Texas