RafaelFajardo

Category: words

  • The only way to be creative over time — to not be undone by our expertise — is to experiment with ignorance, to stare at things we don’t fully understand. Jonah Lehrer in Imagine: How Creativity Works. (via explore-blog) Tibor Kalman also preached this sermon when he stated his studio would only ever do a kind of…

  • curiositycounts: I love everything about the design of this poster for the film, Ray & Charles Eames: The Architect and the Painter. But I love that PBS has the entire film available to watch here even more. 

  • dcwomenkickingass: So Lois Lane (remember her – used to be married to Superman on one Earth; dead on another?) got a shout out on 30 Rock last night. And because it is 30 Rock it made me laugh. But it also made me think of all the times I’ve heard that Lois Lane is just…

  • albotas: A Little Bit on the Sketchy Side: Brian Joseph Davis has had the ingenious idea of having police composite sketching software draft up literary characters. Check out a sketch of Hiro Protagonist from Neil Stephenson’s Snow Crash. I like being able to see if a character’s composite sketch looks anything like I imagined. It’s also cool…

  • curiositycounts: From Ben Franklin to Bauhaus and beyond, a detailed infographic telling the story of the world’s most important typefaces. (via)

  • Design Think: On columns in InDesign

    Design Think: On columns in InDesign design-think: Once you have set up your grid in InDesign, there are two choices for setting columns of text using the grid as a guide: manually with text running across multiple text frames (option A) and automatically with the ‘number of columns’ tool (option B). I suppose there’s no…

  • http://vimeo.com/16992326 thedocumentarian: Room 666, Wim Wenders (1982) Wenders set up a static camera in room 666 of the Hotel Martinez and provided selected film directors a list of questions to answer on the future of cinema. Features Goddard, Fassbinder, Herzog, Wenders, Antonioni and Spielberg amongst others. Kudos to Ben Reed (Source: http://vimeo.com/)

  • Scratch is an early computer language learning environment enabling young beginners to get results without having to learn syntactically correct writing first. Created by the MIT Media Lab, it is intended to motivate for further learning through playfully experimenting and creating projects, such as interactive animations etc. scratch.mit.edu (via lifeandcode)

  • newshouramgrad: For students with learning disabilities, iPads and digital audio programs are able to help them perform at their grade level.

  • Do not pretend that you are advancing game studies in any way [by defining “game”]. You are more likely to be holding it back. Chris Bateman (via notgames)