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And here’s the thing: Most of the manual labor still being done in our economy seems to be of the kind that’s hard to automate. Notably, with production workers in manufacturing down to about 6 percent of U.S. employment, there aren’t many assembly-line jobs left to lose. Meanwhile, quite a lot of white-collar work currently…
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Art is fundamentally a survival device of the species. Otherwise it wouldn’t be so persistent. It wouldn’t be in every culture. We wouldn’t know about it… Milton Glaser: first graphic designer to win the National Medal of Arts. Glaser continues: How does art help you survive? It helps us survive by making us attentive. In…
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nevver: I swear I use no art at all
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viafrank: I saw this a few weeks ago at Powells. I’m thankful for seeing it: it phrases better what I’ve been trying to clarify in my head for so long. Design must be free, because it is a liberal art for all, while at the same time it is the craft and trade of a…
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http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf rewindlove: TED / Talks Denis Dutton: A Darwinian theory of beauty TED collaborates with animator Andrew Park to illustrate Denis Dutton’s provocative theory on beauty — that art, music and other beautiful things, far from being simply “in the eye of the beholder,” are a core part of human nature with deep evolutionary origins.…
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We work because it’s a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next. — Charles Eames I have a tendency to change up what I do frequently. In 2007, I designed books. In 2008, I was a user interface designer. In 2009, I was an illustrator. In 2011, I’m writing a book. The terminology I…
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This thesis proposes that art created through the agency of a computer may be termed “Computer Art” and distinguished from all other forms of visual art by its computational basis. Computer Art is a significant development in the visual arts because the computer operates simultaneously as medium, tool and context, in addition to its organisational…
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These moral and legal framings share a common philosophical root: the belief that creativity is an engine for human betterment (and possibly of divine origin). Creativity is considered the motive force behind ‘‘progress’’ – creative imagination is used to think up new technologies from cotton gins to Constitutions, from Internets to inoculations, with the potential…
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Good movies aimed at adults tend to make their money more slowly than kid stuff, and they’re helped by good reviews and word of mouth, which, from a marketing standpoint, are impossible to engineer. That’s one reason studios would rather spend $100 million on a franchise film than a fraction of that on an original…
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This is sort of where I lost a bit of enthusiasm. While I like the direction and motivation here, this did not feel like the sort of design fiction that I lust after. It seemed very designer-ywith a heavy emphasis on the perfect render. Good design fiction in my mind tends more towards believable, pushing…