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Right out of the gate, A Matter of Form proves to be an ingenious illustration of colorful and creative wizardry. A single point becomes an endless number of forms. Art & Design Creating the space and ecosystem for play takes a massive effort and a light touch at the same time. You can’t engineer it. You can only forget about trying to play, and then it happens. It works whether you’re on your own…
I had an idea for a zine that would capture my collection of failed Polaroids. Failed for numerous reasons — outright bad film packs (it happens, or rather used to back in the more experimental Impossible days), expired film, or even mechanical camera issues with my SX-70 at the time. It’s taken almost 3 years to find its form after numerous failed attempts and going in circles with approaches…
Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don’t really have any rights left. Marshall McLuhan Right now, a good number of companies (I don’t need to name them, you know who they are) seem hell-bent on taking this a step further and going straight for the whole package…
Preview detail of a spread from a forthcoming zine project currently in production I’m working on several zine/book projects at the moment, and now have the first in production . It’s only taken about four years of second guessing, losses of momentum, and restarts to get to here, but it’s finally found a form that works. Of course, stripping the idea back to the bare metal is what helped it…
I’ve barely had time to look at the hundreds of photos I took while in Japan since we’ve been back, but my eye caught this one today from the deer park in Nara, one of the most naturally charming places I’ve maybe ever visited. It’s a good reminder that there’s beauty to be found in the little, often and easily ignored moments in a day. You just have to slow down and look. I needed that today. And…
A tool that shields us from the friction of the work is compelling, but if we don’t experience the friction, we will never change the work. Rutherford Craze In my mind, earlier consideration of disruption from digital tools now seems so quaint and naïve by comparison to the effects of so-called “artificial intelligence” on traditional human-centric creative processes. Rutherford makes a clear,…
Japanese craft is rooted in specificity. Each object and solution is considered in its own context. That mindset often prioritizes appropriateness over efficiency and precision over scale. Kyosuke Nishida Having just returned from 12 days in Japan, immersed in their incredible history and culture, this quote from creative director Kyosuke Nishida feels both apt and also true. Westerners could…
I suspect I’m going to return from Japan with a lot of photos of temples and little architecture details since that’s what I find myself gravitating towards when traveling. This trip is already proving to be a good source of photos to (finally) start fiddling with the Aphera beta, which immediately made me want to erase all memory of Lightroom from my archives. Location Info Senso-ji Temple ,…
Behind the storm of daily conflict and crisis, the dramatic confrontations, the tumult of political struggle, the poet, the artist, the musician continues the quiet work of centuries, building bridges and experience between peoples, reminding man of the universality of his feelings and desires and despairs, and reminding him that the forces that unite are deeper than those that divide… John F.…
Early in my career (another life really), the company I worked at was doing a lot of work for Canada Post so I got to see firsthand what would go into producing new stamps. Those little rectangular pieces of art require so much care and consideration to get right, something that I think has stayed with me and influences how I work. Art & Design Culture can give birth to something that hasn’t been…