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There are no new ideas, there never have been. There are only new ways of thinking about old ideas and how they’re stitched together.

Richard Turley

#reference #plagiarism #copy #moodboard #originality #new #old

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Most professions use a few suss tactics to build walls between the “lay person” and the skills they’re trying to sell. The plumber arriving at your home at 3am to fix a burst pipe uses a sharp intake of breath, a shake of the head and a lengthy pause to add a couple of zeros to the bill. Fancy restaurants make you wait for a table they know is ready. Lawyers will make you pay for pointless meetings where they’ll pepper in long, archaic words you don’t understand, in order for them to type a letter that they’ll already have a template for. And so on.

Richard Turley

#market #business #professional #marketing #strategy #behavior

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Relatability isn’t the only way of enjoying art

Anthony Fantano

#art #relationship #appreciation #audience #public #review

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I think when somebody calls stories ‘content,’ when somebody says ‘pipeline,’ they’re using sewage language.

Guillermo del Toro apud Animation Obsessive

#production #ai #media #content #distribution #art #commerce #economy

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I think designers should be confident in their choices of weight, rather than twiddling the nobs with uncertainty

Erik Carter

#typography #type #font #variable #weight #choice #methodology #process

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You can fix a line on the computer, but it’s harder to fix a vibe.

James Edmondson

#process #creativity #tools #drawing

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It’s normal to make art. This is a manifest truth that is obscured by the institutional imperative to contain and monopolize awe. Why should we entertain the conventions built up around art that require it to be fundamentally exceptional, credentialed, and toothless?

Elisabeth Nicula

#art #institutions #career #market

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They want us to describe ourselves in grant-writting language like we are project managers rather than to describe our ideas with the many varied languages of art. This is how they make us speak their desires.

Elisabeth Nicula

#art #institutions #commerce #carreer

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It bothers me that there is so little usable infrastructure beneath artists and so much baroque architecture built on top of us.

Elisabeth Nicula

#art #infrastructure #institutions #support

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Idealism can be practical because the world we want must be drawn upon the world we live in

Elisabeth Nicula

#idealism #fiction

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As (...) tools evolve, so too do our collective tastes and standards for quality and style.

Elizabeth Goodspeed

#tool #tools #trend #trends #taste #aesthetics #aesthetic

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When something's trending, it's already too late

Margot Lévêque

#design #trend #trends #fashion #cycle #time

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Fonts are like old cheese

Robert Janes

#font #type #typography #cheese #maturing #aging #time

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Felipe usa a expressão “embalagem crachá” para descrever um fenômeno que é a projeção de características evocadas pelo design da embalagem na pessoa que a carrega consigo, numa associação entre usuário e marca

Felipe Lacerda Mendes apud Helê Carmona

#design #identity #identidade #consumo #branding

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a gente fica morrendo de medo de dar errado, então quando dá errado, a gente pode relaxar

#erro #error #mistake #processo #trabalho #process #anxiety #ansiedade #plan

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Every performance is the authorizing of a future, in the midst of the present, trying to recover the best of the past

Cornel West

#art #performance #design #future #past #present #meaning

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O problema é que o nome “síndrome do impostor” já trai uma certeza íntima de que na verdade você nasceu sim para aquela atribuição — e o fato de que de vez em quando seu subconsciente sussurra uma noção contrária só pode ser resultado de uma condição clínica. A verdade é que essa sensação tem um nome muito mais simples, insegurança, e acomete todo mundo que não é psicopata.

#impostor #sindrome #imposter #syndrome #insecurity #creativity #creative #process #processo #criativo #criatividade #insegurança