1. 9 Oct


    “I, too, wondered whether I could not sell something and succeed in life. For some time I had been no good at anything. I am forty years old… Finally the idea of inventing something insincere finally crossed my mind and I set to work straightaway. At the end of three months I showed what I had produced to Philippe Edouard Toussaint, the owner of the Galerie St Laurent. ‘But it is art’ he said ‘and I will willingly exhibit all of it.’ ‘Agreed’ I replied. If I sell something, he takes 30%. It seems these are the usual conditions, some galleries take 75%. What is it? In fact it is objects.” Marcel Broodthaers

    “I, too, wondered whether I could not sell something and succeed in life. For some time I had been no good at anything. I am forty years old… Finally the idea of inventing something insincere finally crossed my mind and I set to work straightaway. At the end of three months I showed what I had produced to Philippe Edouard Toussaint, the owner of the Galerie St Laurent. ‘But it is art’ he said ‘and I will willingly exhibit all of it.’ ‘Agreed’ I replied. If I sell something, he takes 30%. It seems these are the usual conditions, some galleries take 75%. What is it? In fact it is objects.”

    Marcel Broodthaers

     

  2. 9 Oct



    Design in Art

     “thus I obtained a faithful fixed image of my hallucination and transformed into revealing dramas my most secret desires – from what had been before only some banal pages of advertising.”

    Max Ernst

     

  3. 5 Oct


    Another view of the Graphic Design Stefan Sagmeister.

    Another view of the Graphic Design

    Stefan Sagmeister.

     

  4. 12 Jun



    The Shortage

    I often read about how companies are struggling to find designers, while there are a ton of designers out there starting to look for work. Most of them though are still at the “just a visual artist” level. A designer needs to be all of the things above and that is what a lot of companies are looking for without realizing it. Unfortunately a lot of designers don’t realize that they should be these things as well and you won’t be those right away, it takes time.

    Today’s designer is a renaissance man. At least the great ones are. Study the topics that you didn’t think about studying. Read the books you didn’t even knew existed. Write your ass off. Design new thing without worrying about the look of it for a while. Plan ahead.

    Be a Buckminster.

    —  http://drawar.com/
     

  5. 17 Mar


    Why aren’t agencies always this candid about where they will be of value, and where they won’t? Because they are afraid: afraid of becoming irrelevant maybe, or afraid of offending potential clients. Edenspiekermann is a newish firm, but they speak with the maturity of principals who have been in business for decades.


    Why aren’t agencies always this candid about where they will be of value, and where they won’t? Because they are afraid: afraid of becoming irrelevant maybe, or afraid of offending potential clients. Edenspiekermann is a newish firm, but they speak with the maturity of principals who have been in business for decades.

    (Source: joepemberton)