My bucket list at 6 years old:
:: Wear green leopard skin sleeves and a paint palette hat.
:: Own a very tall red car.
:: Don’t bother driving when I can levitate.
:: Smile, even when there’s only a thin strip of blue sky.
—Dorn
““Many people believe that great designers get great clients. It’s the other way around.”
— Seth Godin”
Favorite number
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“… great projects, like great careers and relationships that last, are gardens. They are tended, they shift, they grow. They endure over time, gaining a personality and reflecting their environment. When something dies or fades away, we prune, replant and grow again.”
- Seth Godin (via debsofield)
Seth Godin for President
“Find the cracks in the wall. There are a very few lunatic entrepreneurs who still understand that culture and design are not about fatter wallets, but about creating a future. They will understand that wealth is a means, not an end. Under other circumstances they may have turned out to be like you, creative lunatics. Believe me, they’re there, and when you find them, treat them well and use their money to change the world.”
Truckers
Upper SC State Fair
—Dorn
A New Site for Studio MPLS
Earlier this week Studio MPLS launched a slick new site to showcase their beautiful work, new and old. A few standouts are below, but be sure to visit their portfolio to get the full experience of the new design.
Fred Troller — Paul Rand’s gravestone (1996)
NYC window.
—Dorn
Type
Hey, Jane, remember this?
This was one of my favorite projects of all the classes I’ve taken.
Maru brush pen drawings.
We waste so much energy trying to cover up who we are when beneath every attitude is the want to be loved, and beneath every anger is a wound to be healed and beneath every sadness is the fear that there will not be enough time.
When we hesitate in being direct, we unknowingly slip something on, some added layer of protection that keeps us from feeling the world, and often that thin covering is the beginning of a loneliness which, if not put down, diminishes our chances of joy.
It’s like wearing gloves every time we touch something, and then, forgetting we chose to put them on, we complain that nothing feels quite real. Our challenge each day is not to get dressed to face the world but to unglove ourselves so that the doorknob feels cold and the car handle feels wet and the kiss goodbye feels like the lips of another being, soft and unrepeatable.
Mark Nepo in The Book of Awakening
Song: “Green Gloves” by The National
They are. Seriously.
© Dorn
I watched here. 1970s. Before the trees. And those white things.
© Dorn
“We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.”
“Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn’t have to be a walk during which you’ll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you anti-social or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.”