A Brief Message features design opinions expressed in short form. Somewhere between critiques and manifestos, between wordy and skimpy, Brief Messages are viewpoints on design in the real world. They’re pithy, provocative and short — 200 words or less.
A brief message about the benefit of constraints in the digital medium;
You can’t have art without resistance in the materials. – William Morris
The other day I stumbled across Ziya Danishmend’s blog, Notes from the Backyard. Ziya is a CD over at Blast Radius who I met last year while conducting a job search. Our chat went well and his point of view was very prescient and insightful. What we covered is essentially broken down in a post on his blog, “Feeling Chippy?” The following quote is a bit ancillary to his main theme (which is traditional advertising/metrics need to evolve – or get out of the way – in order to fulfil contemporary brand-promises) but great nonetheless:
The by-product of this organizational and institutional struggle is anxiety. It can rule – and ruin – a creative group and an agency. Especially when the organization itself becomes vested in the pretense of the numbers game – attempting to figure out the customer with pointillist accuracy. Often times the creative output of an agency (traditional or digital) thus biased ends up lifeless and dry. It should come as no surprise then that not a single agency, digital or traditional, has ever been named by Fortune magazine as one of the Top 100 Best Places to Work.
This is not a “heated debate”. It’s an obviously ignorant individual completely out of their mental/reasoning league attacking their interlocutor ad-hominem (as is so often the case with the Republicans on TV) to prevent sound ideas being expressed over the air. Let’s all call a spade a spade and stop giving mental morons a soap-box.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
Saw Vicky Cristina Barcelona yesterday (we were there during filming!). Great. Loved its personality-type reductionism and the ever-nagging choice between boring predictability or the fickle whimsy of following desire. Evidently Allen wrote a “diary” of sorts during filming and its quite funny. Check it out:
MARCH 5
Met with Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz. She’s ravishing and more sexual than I had imagined. During interview my pants caught fire. Bardem is one of those brooding geniuses who clearly will need a firm hand from me.
