Typeverything.com - The Great Gatsby Poster.
“The six rules about creativity come down to the one rule about creativity, which is that there are no rules about creativity. The problem with the conversation around creativity, as it is often put forward in this country, is that if you can find someone who’s creative, and if you can get them to describe what they do…and then you emulate it, then you too will be creative…
The conversation about creativity goes off the rails when we assume it’s a thing. What creativity is is valuable novelty; it’s the ability to produce valuable novelty. And the question of what’s valuable and the question of what’s novel are always up for grabs. They’re always up for renegotiation.”
Clay Shirky shares six insights on creativity derived from his years of watching and teaching creatives.
Watch the making of the Leica M9-P »Edition Hermès« – Série Limitée Jean-Louis Dumas, introduced in Berlin at the “LEICA - DAS WESENTLICHE” on May 10, 2012.
This limited edition is a celebration of the friendship and collaboration between Jean-Louis Dumas, the former president of Hermès, who died in May 2010, and Leica Camera AG.
I want everything we do to be beautiful. I don’t give a damn whether the client understands that that’s worth anything, or that the client thinks it’s worth anything, or whether it is worth anything. It’s worth it to me. It’s the way I want to live my life.
I want to make beautiful things,
even if nobody cares.
Shakespeare may have died 396 years ago today, but he springs back to life with Milton Glaser’s stunning 36 faces of William Shakespeare.
I remember seeing an interview where Milton explains how no one really knows what Shakespeare looked like, and how that allowed him to take some creative liberties when creating these portraits.
There is such a great amount of detail being shown with the use of simple shapes.
Amsterdam
This past weekend I had the opportunity to fly out to the Silicon Valley to graphic record TEDxSanJose 2012 on behalf of gravitytank. I visualized over 22 lectures in one day from a diverse cross-section of makers, thinkers, and doers from 14-year-old entrepreneurs to established research scientists. These visualizations are massive murals (8 ft x 4 ft) drawn on butcher paper live during the duration of the lectures. See in high res here.
Very cool. Definitely worth clicking through to the hi-res versions.
