Style and Standards

November 30th, 2009

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; that [...]

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“Doing Well by Doing Good”

October 7th, 2009

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 [...]

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Four Art & Design Quotes That Inspire

September 8th, 2009

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 good [...]

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