“I sketch my ideas. My inner process of creation lies in the cloudy region between idea and image. From that region, my mind shapes image and form, and my hand obeys.” -Michelangelo Buonarroti During his career, Michelangelo mastered painting, architecture, and sculpture. Some of his most ambitious works fused all three. While I’ll never know [...]
Please enjoy these profound excerpts from the rare 1963 book Graphic Design: Visual Comparisons by Alan Fletcher, Colin Forbes, and Bob Gill. These three men were design firm Fletcher/Forbes/Gill, which would eventually evolve into Pentagram. “Our thesis is that any one visual problem has an infinite number of solutions; that many of them are valid; [...]
The ‘Party Werewolf’ t-shirt by Magnetic State is back by popular demand! The new edition of the shirt comes with a few improvements: it’s printed on high quality American Apparel garments, it’s got a small Magnetic State logo on the left sleeve, and best of all, %100 of the profits from sales of this shirt [...]
The following four quotes are words that pass through my mind very often, sometimes daily. They are statements that ring true to me, and I find them to be incredibly inspirational. I hope they might prove useful for you, too. “Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide whether it’s [...]
This blog is written by Dan Redding at Magnetic State, a design studio and brand consultancy. Interested in hiring Dan for your next logo or web design? Send him an email or use the contact page to get in touch.
The blog posts listed below feature Dan Redding's graphic and web design projects at Magnetic State.
