Category: Art Theory
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For the record
This painting—Red Square: Painterly Realism of a Peasant Woman in Two Dimensions by Kazimir Malevich—is the inspiration for my logo, as you see above. “Why?” you may ask. Because I was in a Russian art museum, saw this across the hall, and laughed. I came up closer to it, and saw that it’s title was…
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Prepare To Be Amazed
In the too-rarely-seen Disney movie Meet the Robinsons, the aptly-named Bowler Hat Guy greets a captive audience with these breathless words: “Prepare to be AMAZED!” There’s wisdom in there. We, as a culture, aren’t amazed often enough. We’re frequently amused, occasionally impressed, and rarely speechless. Maybe part of it is that we don’t “prepare” to…
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Kazu Kibuishi on culture-builders and comics
From the Making Comics podcast: We’re constantly trying to find ways to make our comics a tool for something … we want to find our place amongst people in general, and fit in with the social fabric somewhere. And that’s really what comics need to do to become mainstream. In Japan it makes sense because…
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Ennobling thoughts about the nature of design
Courtesy of Matchstic (who you should really be following, because they’re amazing): “To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit; it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse. To design…