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…we are all self-employed now Don’t wait until 65: The key to a happy, creative work force is to retire early and often – Quartz
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The approach that could gain the most traction is one geared toward graduating students with degrees that meet specific needs in the regional labor market. Texas A&M University (San Antonio), for instance, this fall began offering a bachelor’s degree in information technology with an emphasis on information security for just $10,026. Students who achieve this…
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Credited with influencing generations of designers, including Apple’s Jonathan Ive, Rams looks back on his career in a short documentary from publisher Gestalten. The video was produced to go with Less and More, a massive collection of his product designs. The video isn’t new but it’s always fascinating to revisit Rams’s 10 Principles for Good…
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blakegopnik: DAILY PIC: Alexander Calder’s plaster maquette for “Cheval I”, from 1930 and now in a show at L&M Arts in New York, where it sits beside the bronze that was cast from it. The exhibition had many pairings like this, and they all reminded me of how much I prefer plasters to bronzes, especially…
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To give a brief explanation of art that is no longer art: Sometimes the cost of restoring a work of art exceeds the value of the work, in which case the insurer declares a total loss, and the work is declared no longer art—that is, of no market value. The damage can range from obvious…
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For this first time in 10 years, I’m going to be able to focus solely on my comics. Matt Bors, in the Washington Post, waxing on his successfully funded Kickstarter project which will allow him to print two new books. Bors was a Pulitzer Prize finalist last year. (via kickstarter)
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thingsmagazine: Concept art from Under Tomorrow’s Sky by Hovig Alahaidoyan (via things)
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23rd-block: Robert Ryman, Series no. 13 (White). 2004. “It’s similar to the meaning of listening to a symphony. you don’t know the meaning, and you can’t explain it to anyone else who didn’t hear it. the painting has to be seen. but there is no meaning outside of what it is.” – Robert Ryman
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Just this. Thank you.
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explore-blog: explore-blog: I had the pleasure of discussing the “Modulor” at some length with Professor Albert Einstein at Princeton. I was then passing through a period of great uncertainty and stress; I expressed myself badly, I explained the “Modulor” badly, I got bogged down in the morass of “cause and effect”… At one point, Einstein…