#through process

[jarrettfuller]

Print Magazine looks at the process of graphic designer Martin Venesky, the graphic designer known for his layered, collaged work that blurs the lines between design and art. “The point is not to have fun. It’s not about amusing yourself,” he says, “Design is about studying. It’s hard. It’s slow going. You’ve got to develop a strategy and a process. Then you can amuse yourself with it.”

Be sure to take a look at Venezky's website—there's a lot of great work in there (including the signage he did at Facebook a few years ago that is stunning in real life.). He was also interviewed on Through Process last year and serves as a nice supplement to this visual process.

[youianddesign]

I had a portion of an interview transcribed and typeset onto a 6x9 art board in Illustrator. I located and circled every “You,” “I,” and “Design” I could find and then joined them all with a thin line. The transcript is then removed resulting in an isolated form––I also created an alternate version to see how colour relates to the composition. More to come on the concept behind it all...  

[roswerk]

You, I, and Design - Noam Chomsky

Experimenting with an analog approach for my continuing ‘You, I, and Design project.’ Please visit that initial post to get some background on the project. I’ll soon have a dedicated Tumblr for this whole thing. Here are some notes about what I experienced doing this with a pen, ruler and paper instead of going into Illustrator. I found that working digitally was very slow and not so fluid. I became obsessed with lining up points and making the geometric result perfect rather than enjoying myself, experimenting, and just having fun with it. I used a ruler for the first time in years and had to learn how to hold it properly! Overall I don’t like how the geometric shape can’t be isolated like the previous digital version because I haven’t incorporated vellum or anything transparent yet to do the tracing. That means it’ll take more work to get the same thing--why bother? I’m also unhappy with how everything didn’t line up as perfect as I’d hoped. I blame working in the digital realm for so long--no smart guides, no align tool. What I did find pleasant was being able to observe the object being created from different angles (2D). I enjoyed the effortlessness of not having to deal with layers and so on. I liked how I would get the unexpected ink skipping out of the old pen I was using. When I scanned it using my iPhone scanning app, I enjoyed making this imperfect thing look even more imperfect--Interesting. There I was obsessing about it being perfect and getting upset, but then enjoying that imperfection at the end. 

[mvajoshua]

The most important thing that we provide is honest discussion around design education and the questioning of the status quo. Neither Mitch nor I hold back on what we think about teaching and students and I think that’s the best part of our show. In my cumulative six years of education I never heard anybody say that critiques were a drag and maybe not necessary. Or that “good design” is a fucking illusion. And while neither Mitch nor any of guests thus far agree with me, I’ve never heard a teacher advocate for not teaching the “rules.” I don’t know the extent to which Through Process affects anyone or anything but its important to me that we talk through these ideas (even if we end up changing our minds later).

Multi-hyphenate creative person and co-chair of VCFA’s MFA in Graphic Design Ian Lynam interviewed me and my Through Process co-host Mitch on podcasting, design criticism and what movies we’d like to show our students (or, do show as the case may be).

[cabbyjv]

What if the rest of the world was just a thought? Unless you've been there, you have no proof that it exists. So how do we know it's real. There are pictures, but it's easy to photoshop images. What if the only thing that existed was the only state you lived in. When you "travel", you just go in a circle to a different location in the same state.

[jarrettfuller]

I just realized I haven't posted here about Through Process, a fairly new podcast from Namdev Hardisty and Mitch Goldstein "about how we become designers". They are only seven episodes in, but I've loved each one so far as they cover a nice range of topics circling design education. Well worth a listen!

(In the most recent episode, they mention the film The Five Obstructions, which caught my attention for obvious reasons