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janehu: I adore, I adore this moment in Just Kids. Had to...

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:23:24 -0500

janehu:

I adore, I adore this moment in Just Kids.

Had to reblog because I’m reading this right now and it showed up in my dash, what are the odds.

theatlantic: This week, change is coming to The Atlantic. Stay...

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:50:16 -0600

theatlantic:

This week, change is coming to The Atlantic. Stay tuned.

Waiting to hear that the one in black is the *before.*

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Mon, 18 Feb 2013 17:30:21 -0600

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Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:52:56 -0600

jjjjustin: (via Insights Design Lecture Series 2013: Surface...

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:45:37 -0600

jjjjustin:

(via Insights Design Lecture Series 2013: Surface Readings — The Gradient — Walker Art Center)

"Whites are taught to think of their lives as morally neutral, normative, and average, and also..."

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 20:09:04 -0600

“Whites are taught to think of their lives as morally neutral, normative, and average, and also ideal, so that when we work to benefit others, this is seen as work which will allow ‘them’ to be more like ‘us’.”

- Peggy McIntosh, 1988 (via eibmorb)

associatedtype: Shame on us Seriously why are there so many...

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:26:26 -0600

associatedtype:

Shame on us

Seriously why are there so many weird grotesks lately.

yaherd: Stahl R I never talk about this kind of graphic design...

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:40:17 -0600

yaherd:

Stahl R

I never talk about this kind of graphic design but I’m always interested in it when I see it. I assume the elements here – some ordinary serif combined with Futura (I think); navy blue and white; no illustration but a marble texture – are meant to look mundane, meant to look like those hyper-academic library books of the ’70s, ’80s, ’90s – those books that are too absorbed in their own studies, and unconcerned with public consumption, to be stylish. The above set of books, to me, is like a parody (or an appropriation) of that. But why would it be?

Why is the broader trope – simple (centered or otherwise naïve) type; solid colors; single-color photos – so popular?

visual-volume: So, as much as it pains me to say it, I was...

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 15:23:30 -0600

visual-volume:

So, as much as it pains me to say it, I was forced to give in to the very concept I said I wouldn’t allow myself to be a victim of. Two nights ago, my boss faced me with a choice. Told me that if I couldn’t fit all of my super thick hair, pulled back, into one of their tiny ass company hats, then I wouldn’t be able to come in for my next shift & stay employed by his business. So as a result, my physical image has now shifted into a product of modern opinionated eurocentric judgemental standards.

3 whole years of progress buzzed onto the floor.

Rent has to get paid.

Simple as that.

banquethall: I’m admittedly a bit over-vocal to my peers about...

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:48:48 -0600

banquethall:

I’m admittedly a bit over-vocal to my peers about how much I dislike [what I consider] the East Coast Graphic Design Tradition. As a student of fashion, musical sub-cultures, other cultures in general, nothing about Glaser or Rand’s work struck me as true. I felt appreciation for the formal qualities of their reductivism, yet alienated by what felt like packaged good feeling sung to an Us Versus Them tune. I refer to that [distinctly and unfortunately American] work as “one-liners”, partly because it stalls serious consideration, past maybe a few inches. Design is not and never was a mass duke-out to see who’s wittier and quicker in cheerfully solving X or Y. If its students see themselves as commodities in competition for the attention of creative directors and ad agency budgets, we continue to disservice meaningful collective dialogue and lock ourselves further into complacency. Long-term effects range from the literal (poorly balanced pay scales) to the less tangible but more grave (a skewed way of engaging with our surroundings and manufacture).

In light of the rather unfortunate decision made above, I return to this quote from Harsh’s post on The New Graphic. When you aren’t trying to design the punchline, you can come up with ethically sound ideas that are free from ego. I prefer this.

Wow, Tumblr makes it incredibly easy to reblog things to your main blog when you wanted to reblog...

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 15:50:45 -0600

Wow, Tumblr makes it incredibly easy to reblog things to your main blog when you wanted to reblog them to your thesis blog.

pewresearch: The Project for Excellence in Journalism’s latest...

Sat, 03 Nov 2012 18:00:25 -0500

pewresearch:

The Project for Excellence in Journalism’s latest report looks at the tone of recent campaign coverage and finds that both candidates received more negative than positive coverage in mainstream news, but social media was even harsher.

Read more: http://pewrsr.ch/SDJLq3

To anyone arriving here for more info on my thesis

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:45:28 -0500

To anyone arriving here for more info on my thesis:

http://davidamrock.com/thesis

Journalism! (Image: Screenshot of cnn.com reading “Best zingers...

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 22:00:28 -0500

Journalism!

(Image: Screenshot of cnn.com reading “Best zingers from VP debate: Vice President Joe Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan spar over various topics at the 2012 vice presidential debate in Kentucky.”)