Mephistopheles Probably Wished He Was More Like Sisyphus or Whatever, You Know What I’m Sayin’? (Part 2)
“Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.” - Jonathan Letham, via Ned Rorem. It seems only a natural progression and appropriate response to the Postmodern condition of creativity, to briefly touch upon the various manifestations and re-contexualisations of Mephistopheles, and to gaze into the horizon of creative linearity in...
Mephistopheles Recurring. (Part 1)
“Ah, he serves you well, indeed! He scorns earth’s fare and drinks celestial mead. Poor fool, his fervent drives him far! He half knows his own madness, I’ll be bound. He’d pillage heaven for its brightest star, And earth for every last delight that’s to be found; Not all that’s near nor far...
Part 1: Can Techies be Creative?
At a Digital Arts in Education conference, not so long ago a few questions were posed. The first question was: “How should we prepare ourselves for the rapidly increasing demand for software creativity?” This question captured my attention mainly because of the way it was phrased. I understood that the questioner deliberately placed the word “software” before...
My |krē-āˈtivitē| Recipe
My |krē-āˈtivitē| Recipe. Since I was a child I’ve been fascinated with the creative world. It is also when I’ve started my journey to explore myself as a creative individual. I’ve learned many things, some more unexpected than others, about myself and about my creative habits. The list is long, always evolving and includes for...
Ten Things I Have Learned: Milton Glaser (Part of AIGA Talk in London)
November 22, 2001 1.
YOU CAN ONLY WORK FOR PEOPLE THAT YOU LIKE. This is a curious rule and it took me a long time to learn because in fact at the beginning of my practice I felt the opposite. Professionalism required that you didn’t particularly like the people that you worked for or at...
Documenting Current Trends In Design
We at ReVision Arts have recently reached out to the curators of one of our favorite sites. Trendlist.org. They have been doing an amazing job in their spare time of identifying the current trends; such as style, techniques, use of graphics, color and typography (to name a few), which are being incorporated into designing Internationally....
Graphic Detour
Graphic design is not what it once was. Compared to the nineties, a small craft and cultural field seemed clear but in the 21st century is has become a democratized discipline in the center of the modern media. With a proliferation of styles, ideas, concepts and methods, graphic design becomes part of the bombardment of...
Digital Identity & YOU
In our era of internet and social networking, individual identity is pushed further and further into obscurity. One of the culprits is digital image cultivation, which allows us to present ourselves to the world in just the way we would like be seen. This makes it easy to smooth- over the idiosyncrasies and flaws we...
Critical Graphic Design
The Invention of Writing is one of the biggest Graphic Design activities there ever was. But very few people are aware— that is Graphic Design. When you are a Graphic Designer you will be referred to at least once as a Pixel Pusher— trying to tell you that you are not the person with the...
Nothing is New
In 1990, a reflection piece in and of itself, Stewart Home campaigned an Art Strike. For three years, he encouraged artists to cease making art in an attempt to reevaluate their roles as artists and the implications of art in general. As he strayed from his Neoist past, his previous fascination with “plundering the past” lead him to the...
un idled post
In my :: mumbles number of years :: pursuing design education I can recall quite a bit. I recall the few stand out projects that have become incredible teachers, the few stand out teachers that have become incredible friends, and definitely the few stand out friends that have become incredible projects… all of which made my all-encompassing...
Roman Opałka – Dedication
Roman Opałka, born on August 27, 1931 in France to Polish parents, began recording a progression of numbers beginning with one and having the end goal of infinity (if you can consider that an end goal). In 1968 Opałka took his process of counting one step farther by taping himself speak each number into the...
