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Michael Bierut on process

“What would happen, I wonder, if I actually told the truth about what happens in a design process? It might go something like this:

When I do a design project, I begin by listening carefully to you as you talk about your problem and read whatever background material I can find that relates to the issues you face. If you’re lucky, I have also accidentally acquired some firsthand experience with your situation. 

Somewhere along the way an idea for the design pops into my head from out of the blue. I can’t really explain that part; it’s like magic. Sometimes it even happens before you have a chance to tell me that much about your problem! 

Now, if it’s a good idea, I try to figure out some strategic justification for the solution so I can explain it to you without relying on good taste you may or may not have. Along the way, I may add some other ideas, either because you made me agree to do so at the outset, or because I’m not sure of the first idea. 

At any rate, in the earlier phases hopefully I will have gained your trust so that by this point you’re inclined to take my advice. I don’t have any clue how you’d go about proving that my advice is any good except that other people — at least the ones I’ve told you about — have taken my advice in the past and prospered. In other words, could you just sort of, you know...trust me?”

Discussions of creative process always make me think of this. And of Robert Duncan’s GMROI workflow diagram — 

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Ed Benguiat, type anatomy

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You’re not the voice of your mind. You’re the one that hears it.

Dunno who said it. Do you?

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The ruler of the South Sea was called Brief, the ruler of the North Sea was called Sudden, and the ruler of the central region was called Chaos. Brief and Sudden from time to time came together for a meeting in the territory of Chaos, and Chaos treated them very generously. Brief and Sudden discussed how they could repay the kindness. “All beings,” they said, “have seven openings so they can see, hear, eat, and breathe. But Chaos alone doesn’t have any. Let's try boring some!” Every day they bored another hole, and on the seventh day Chaos died.

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When you make something no one hates, no one loves it.

Tibor Kalman

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Not only that, but all possible zenn diagrams. Swiped from the meeting notes of A. Flynn.

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Why things tend to be lame.

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Original patent for the bendy straw, 1936. The invention of the bendy straw is a love story.

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Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

Donald Knuth

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Articulation - series combined.

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Beautiful glitch. (source unknown)

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perception ⇄ creativity

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If you’re never in over your head, you don’t know how tall you are.

Tim Allen / @timmmeh

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So be it. See to it. / Science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler’s note to self.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BBDkU3yj5Rp/

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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt · “The man in the arena” · Excerpt from the speech “Citizenship In A Republic” · 23 April 1910

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Director/CG = Hironori Sugie  Production = Cryptomeria  Song = “Japanese Boy” by Takeshi Nakatsuka 

Too many favorite parts. Sphere man? Hairy man? The glitching. Crazy good.

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Ooh. Dig this. The Age of Entanglement.

“This essay proposes a map for four domains of creative exploration – Science, Engineering, Design and Art – in an attempt to represent the antidisciplinary hypothesis: that knowledge can no longer be ascribed to, or produced within, disciplinary boundaries, but is entirely entangled.”

http://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/AgeOfEntanglement

http://www.wired.com/2016/03/mit-media-labs-journal-design-science-radical-new-kind-publication/