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Me being a young designer I still come back and watch this video. I first heard about wim crouwel when I watched the helvetica documentary. Being able to find my own way as a designer has been a journey and something I still am doing. I did not understand the whole process of finding your own way and style in design that symbolized me. Which has been going a lot better recently taking a financial break from college.
What is some good advice that you’ve received as a designer?
When I first seen this video I was blown away when he said that he will not read anything unless he’s identified the typeface. It really opened my eyes up to how serious people take design. When he talked about how people are not supposed to know something has changed its just gotten better. Then when he talked about arial was great and it was a little history lesson as well.
There have been countless number of times I have watched this documentary. The first time I watched it I really had no idea that helvetica was such a widely used typeface. The more I started to get into typography as of watching this I started to study fonts and learn more about them as a whole. Now I rarely if ever use helvetica in any of my work, I believe that frutiger is a more cleaner and well crafted font, Also Nue Haas Grotesk is overall more pleasant to look at to my eyes at least.
Whats your favorite typeface?
I am so blown away by the innovation that has been becoming more widespread. I’m not a coffee drinker at all but for those who are I know they’d enjoy this.
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Coffee Cup you can Eat
I’ll admit when I had a pc I did not understand what was so good about an apple product. After listening to the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson I had more respect for Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
In this video Steve Jobs clearly states the difference between those who want to succeed and those who do not. Me being a young designer I always ask for help whenever I feel there is something I do not know. Many people will help just some people will just talk about wanting to do a thing and others will actually do it.
After watching this video about presentations I could not help but notice how true this is. Every time I sit through a presentation if I notice any thing from this I get a little irritated suprisingly. The IT guy part is pretty funny because it seems that happens quite often (no offense if you work in IT). The ending message is perfect.
What are your thoughts about presentations do you think this is an accurate portrayal of one?
I Came across this video on a Blog. This Video Really made me fall even more in love with New York. I’ve been there twice so far. In a couple of years or living and succeeding in New York is going to be my next thing to do. Being a Graphic designer in New York will definitely be a different way to see the world. Make sure to watch with headphones to get the full effect.
I found out about Bill Bernbach from the design agency doyle dane bernbach. I loved when they interviewer asked him where he finds creative talent and Bill said anywhere. The way Bill talked about having an academic background in creative people not being important and that only thing it can teach you is knowledge and therefore knowledge already exists. Such an amazing interview I’m definitely going to dive deeper into the doyle dane bernbach Advertising agency history.
I remember before I bought an apple product I thought it was just a fad. But the more I’ve been learning about Steve Jobs and Apple I have more respect for him and apple. This video Steve sums up in a short amount of time about life.
“Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter then you”
Watching this pitch from saul bass really showed me the importance of branding in great detail. I was blown away how Saul did not really take anything away from the Logo. He just made it better.
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