January 2012
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October 2011
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WatchVideo: Steal Like An Artist
Austin Kleon at the Economist’s Human Potential Summit
Saturday, September 24th, 2011
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“Don’t Try To Be Original. Try To Be Good.”
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I came up with that, but it turns out that Mies van der Rohe has said it first.
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“Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?”
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Steve Jobs
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“I am not trying to do something different, I am trying to do the same thing but...”
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Vivienne Westwood
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September 2011
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Sharing is Caring →
Sharing truely is caring…
An interview with a designer who loves to share…here
(You can download his stuff and use it too…yea, I ain’t kiddin’).
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“Talent borrows, genius steals”
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Morrissey (Stolen from Oscar Wilde)
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“Take a sad song and make it better”
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Paul McCartney & John Lennon (Song Lyrics “Hey Jude”)
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“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers...”
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Voltaire
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August 2011
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“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery”
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Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, volume I, no. 183 (1780 - 1832)
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“Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.”
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Paul Rand
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“Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where...”
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. US Supreme Court Justice (1841-1935)
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How to Cut&Paste...literally? COLLAGE! →
Cut & Paste: Richard Brereton and Caroline Roberts
“Collage is at the cutting edge of visual design, and can be seen everywhere from advertisements, magazine editorials and fashion stories to street art, album covers, animation and website design. Cut & Paste brings together over 250 images from more than 40 contemporary collage artists…more
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OBJECT ABUSE - SEPTEMBER AT KK OUTLET →
Very excited about this exhibition at the ever so awesome KK Outlet in London’s Shoreditch. They wriite on their website “KK Outlet have challenged a group of leading artists, designers and stylists to take an everyday object, remould, rebuild and repurpose it to create an entirely new item using as little additional materials as possible.” The concept is easy to grasp....
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Back with a vengence
Summer was nice. Got some work done. Updates soon!
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Apple STORE Ripp-Off? →
Chinese Knock-Offs par excellence!
Apparently in China even entire Apple STORES can be copied… with the usual (and ever so amusing) lack of attention to detail! A ‘BirdAbroad’, living in Kunming, has made this astonishing discovery and shared it with the world (and my fellow student James has in turn shared it with me - THANKS JAMES!) Unbelievable = all I can say! Read the...
July 2011
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Anthony Burrill's View On Plagiarism
Arts Thread Interviews Burrill before ‘Pick Me Up’ at London’s Somerset House - An Excerpt:
Legendary British designer Anthony Burrill is taking residency in the Somerset House Open Studio as part of Pick Me Up, the UK’s first and foremost contemporary graphic art fair. As part of his ten day residency, Anthony will be inviting long-time collaborators such as Wilfrid Wood...
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An Interview with Anthony Burrill →
June 2011
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RADIO INTERVIEW: ‘Cheer up, the worst is yet to... →
What would you put on your poster now? ‘Cheer up, the worst is yet to come’
Short interview with Nigel Rees, author of Don’t You Know There’s a War On? on the TODAY Program of BBC Radio 4.
“He explains why catchphrases sometimes “have to be minted to take care of the situation”. We are forever being reminded that we should “keep calm and carry on”, but what is the genesis of this now...