October 2011
104 posts
Thought You Should See This: 7 Things Michael... →
thoughtyoushouldseethis:
Pentagram partner, Michael Bierut closed the first day of Design at Scale, and did so with mastery and aplomb. He laid out the cliches of what designers supposedly like… and then neatly shot down each one, with a series of things he actually loves. Hugely entertaining and, as with all the…
“Max stepped into his private boat and waved goodbye and sailed back over a year...”
– Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are (via the-final-sentence)
“For too many people, the easiest thing to do is assume everything sucks....”
– insight from a review of last night’s episode of NBC’s primetime show, Community (avclub.com)
rogue baby →
It’s my fault I know first aid and saved that kid’s life on our vacation to Tahiti. It must have interrupted your sunbathing when her parents hoisted me on their shoulders on the pool deck like a victorious boxer.
“Perfectionism is almost an illness with me, but sometimes I have moments where...”
– Tom Ford (via musingsinfemininity)
the fierce imagination of haruki murakami →
“It would be difficult to find another cross-cultural moment more intense, unpredictable, ambiguous, confusing, and electric than this one.”
“Why don’t you tell me that “if the girl had been worth having, she’d have waited...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via constantlydaydreaming)
“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect....”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via beatboxgoesthump)
“I want movement, not a calm course of existence. I want excitement and danger...”
– Tolstoy
