You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stickout teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
Roald Dahl in The Twits
Song: “Beautiful” by Eleni Mandell
And make sure you put in a little personality. You have one. It’s a major part of you. You might as well own it. Besides, people hire people they like, not resumes they like.
Jessica Hagy of Indexed fame explores how to stand out in a cover letter. Or, just follow the immeasurably brilliant example of young Eudora Welty’s application letter to The New Yorker.
Hagy and Welty? Absolutely.
Television: Vignelli
The Vignellis did a overall program for the Italian national television’s (RAI) second channel (Tg2), including designing the news studio in Rome. We found this example of the identity for the station, which is still in use today. Notice the bright “neon” colors and the square pen that fits perfectly in the fold.
Italian National television station RAI, channel Tg2 graphic identity folder [with stickers, business card, pad of paper, and pen], circa 1988
22 1/2 cm x 32 cm
Box 579, Massimo and Lella Vignelli papers
Vignelli Center for Design Studies
Rochester, New York
Forever Vignelli
Photo typophile
Casper on the roof
—Dorn
“Even the teensiest distractions can seriously throw us off. One recent study found that interruptions as brief as 2.8 seconds were enough to more than double the number of errors study participants made on a given task.”
A reminder that attention is an "intentional, unapologetic discriminator" and all the more reason to master the art of presence.
(via explore-blog)Preach.
A graphic designer walks into a bowling alley…
"What drives them? Is it the tantalizing incompleteness of an unmarked scoresheet? The exhilarating taste of Cheez Doodles washed down with a cold gulp of rolling Rock? Or is it the shoes?"
Team Vignelli’s average score put them #10 out of 11. The Alley Rats took the top slot. The brochure, designed by Michael Bierut with photography by Richard Frank, features each team posed with their bowling balls. They even had their own newsletter for the league called Guttertalk.
Logo Busters (Anspach Grossman Portugal, Inc.)
Masters of the Univers (Donovan and Green)
The Alley Rats (Works)
Lane Brains (Lefowith Design)
Lukie Strikes (Lukasiewicz Design)
Team Vignelli (Vignelli Associates)
The Pinheads (Chermayeff & Geismar Associates)
Wishful Thinkers (Access Press)
The Shooting Stars (Cato Desgrippes Beauchant Gobe)
Perscriptives Design (The Prescriptives Division of Estee Lauder)
The Lying Pins (The Whelan Design Group)
The Trolls (Bonnell Design Associates)The New York City Graphic Designers Bowling League brochure, 1988
5” x 5”
Box 564, Massimo and Lella Vignelli papers
Vignelli Center for Design Studies
Rochester, New YorkThe New York City Graphic Designers Bowling League newsletter, 1988
11” x 17”
Box 564, Massimo and Lella Vignelli papers
Vignelli Center for Design Studies
Rochester, New York
This should be a thing again. Who’s in?
My spirit animal
“I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.”
in the gut
Design thrives when a human being wants to create work that, at its core, touches another… If you can change one human for the better… that’s what art is.
Seth Godin in conversation with Debbie Millman at HOW Design Live 2014, echoing Leo Tolstoy’s criterion of emotional infectiousness for art and adding to history’s most memorable definitions of art.
Great way to begin the day!
Reward
—Dorn
alex legolvan
Fairground Observations: Yum gross
—Dorn
Window shopping
—Dorn
Alan Fletcher, cover design for Fortune magazine, 1958. USA. Source
FLETCHER FOR THE WIN.
Leaving
—Dorn
Dear Massimo…
We are very sad to report that Massimo Vignelli is very ill and will be spending his last days at home. HIs son Luca is asking everyone who has been influenced or inspired by Massimo to write him a letter and mail it to:
Massimo Vignelli
130 East 67th Street
New York, New York 10021
USAVignelli Associates stationery specifications sheet
13.5” x 16.5”
Box V8, Massimo and Lella Vignelli papers
Vignelli Center for Design Studies
Rochester, New YorkVignelli Associates stationery sample
8.25” x 11.75”
Box 587, Massimo and Lella Vignelli papers
Vignelli Center for Design Studies
Rochester, New York
This is beyond difficult to comprehend.
