For the past 6 months I have been making paper-cut silhouettes of my favourite pop culture icons. They were displayed in an exhibition at Gallery 1988 that opened on May 7th and will run for around three weeks. Here are some photos of the show and some more of the process:
“It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money — that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot — it can’t be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.”
— Known as the Common Law of Business Balance often attributed to John Ruskin. John Ruskin was an English art critic and social thinker, also remembered as a poet and artist. His essays on art and architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. (via nestor)
“When you’re forced to be simple, you’re forced to face the real problem. When you can’t deliver ornament, you have to deliver substance.”
— Paul Graham, a programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist. He is known for his work on Lisp, for co-founding Viaweb (which eventually became Yahoo! Store), and for co-founding the Y Combinator seed capital firm. (via swiss-miss)
“It’s very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.”
— Jonathan Ive, an English designer and the Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple Inc. He is the principal designer of the iMac, titanium and aluminum PowerBook G4, MacBook, unibody MacBook Pro, iPod, iPhone, and iPad.
Cookie Monster has a point.
… and those lower-case “L”s and upper-case “I”s, how do you tell them apart?
Introducing “Feature Creep”, the nefarious designer arch-enemy. More to come.
For Core77.
Enjoying the “save the rich people” posts in my dashboard today.
Can someone set up a Tumblr donation bucket...
— Buddhist proverb
Adobe just released an SDK so developers can build iPad apps that control Photoshop on your computer. And they announced three of their own!
When I use an iPhone and an Android phone at the same time, I often find that...
— Paul...
