An interesting list put together by Goodness Design Studio asking designers to:
“Please recommend a book that you have found particularly inspiring or meaningful to your development as a creative person?
The one restriction: Please no books on graphic design.”
See the list here.
Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki might be the book that would make my list.
As I said in my previous post I have been quite busy these last few weeks and it doesn’t look like it is going to let up anytime soon. Please be patient. I have a few topics I would like to cover so once I am over this posting dry spell I will have much to write.
I changed my theme to something a little more straight forward, I did like the intensions of the Hemingway theme but it needs to be updated and I would rather not tweak the CSS now or write my own. Enjoy the new look. The font is Keedy from Emigre which can be purchased here. (More on Emigre in a later post.)
My current playlist:
Russell Haswell Live Salvage 1997 -> 2000
An amazing record. The clerk at AKA summed it up best, “brutal record man”.
Willits + Sakamoto Ocean Fire
This is what I was expecting last year’s Fennesz + Sakamoto record to sound like. Thick, pastoral, ambient music.
Sawako Madoromi
Beautiful.
My current reads:
Dot Dot Dot 15
Counterpunch: making type in the sixteenth century, designing typefaces now Fred Smeijers [Thanks T3]
The Dirt Motley Crue. [Thanks Nay]
I will be posting every so often what I have been listening to, either as a full post or at the end of posts.
Christina Kubisch – Five Electrical Walks [Important Records] – I love it!
Traditionally, year in review lists are some what hard for me to put together; this year was even harder with some personal and family issues arising, me being out of the loop, and me not keeping a list the whole year. With that being said my list for 2007…
The highlight of the whole year is me getting engaged to my girlfriend Nadene who without I would not be the person I am today.
Music:
Burial – Untrue
Fennesz + Sakamoto – Cendre
Pharoahe – Desire
Ghostface – Big Doe Rehab
Sir Richard Bishop – While My Guitar Violently Bleeds
James Blackshaw – The Cloud Of Unknowing
Growing – Vision Swim
Madlib – Beat Konducta in India
Earth – Hibernaculum
Jodi Cave – For Myria
Tarentel – Ghetto Beats On The Surface Of The Moon
Pjusk – Sart
Other:
Carsten Nicolai: Static Balance @ PaceWildenstein
Frank Bretschnider @ OFFF
Neville Brody @ OFFF
Tom Recchion, Ju Suk Reet Meate and Oblivia @ No Fun Fest
Music Is A Better Noise @ PS 1
