Paola Antonelli Presentation At Creative Mornings

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Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, was the June 2010 SwissMiss’ CreativeMornings speaker. She discusses design history, education, the exhibit “Design and the Elastic Mind” and next year’s “Talk To Me” exhibition currently taking shape transparently via a blog at MoMA.org/Talktome.

“Design and the Elastic Mind” and the symposium “Mind 08” presented around it where truly inspiring and eye-opening for me and introduced me to the work of many people I have come to love.

The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams

Dieter Rams “is a genius designer, and a genius manager of his process,” who clearly believes that “design should not dominate people.”

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The Origins of the World's Most Important Typefaces

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Click on the link above for the page where you can download a full-size PDF of the image. A lot of history in one concise package.

A Look At Art with Stephen Fry

In an increasingly infantilised world where so much seems to be split into good or bad, correct or incorrect, acceptable or unacceptable, where complex ideas are chopped up for public consumption like food chopped up for a child, where so much is hygienic, attainable, safe, sugared, assimilable, digestible, pasteurised, homogenised and sanitised, in such a world our appetite has never been greater for the complex, the ambiguous, the challenging, the untamed, the sharp, the peculiar, the surprising, the dangerous, the dirty, the difficult, the untameable, the elusive, the unsafe and the unknowable. In other words, for art.

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Speech Given at a Dinner for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition – 8th June 2010 by Stephen Fry.

Typography Explained

This s a College project . Well, this is my first time using After Effects, i learnt a lot of AE basics, such cameras, null objects, depth, basic effects, and some plug-ins. The project brief told us to do a kinetic typographical motion graphic. We should use the type expressions, audio sync-ing, type treatments to visualize the meaning of typography. The sound & narration is taken from BOCAMOTION.

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Great student work by Ritchie Fernando Wijaya. Click here to see storyboards and concept art. To learn more check out the must-have The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst.