visual madness

“Quality… is concerned with ideas not techniques, with the enduring not the ephemeral, with precision not fussiness, with simplicity not vacuity, with subtlety not blatancy, with sensitivity not sentimentality.”

- Paul Rand

After seeing yet another newspaper article on Michael Jackson in today’s copy of The Straits Times, my thoughts started drifting to another legendary entertainer who died around the same time as MJ last year: George Carlin. Carlin was one of the greatest comedians who ever lived, and I consider myself extremely lucky to have been able to attend one of his live shows last May, merely a month before he passed away — also due to heart failure, interestingly enough. » Read the rest of this entry «

“Alphabets, like musical scales, or fingers or toes, or stars and constellations, or stone circles, or abacuses, or sea waves, or or comets and eclipses, or genealogies, or birds and fish migrations, owe their interest and appeal to a combination of regularity and chance.”

- Edwin Morgan

by Scott Garner

“Every culture, industry, discipline, department, and organization has its own way of dealing with problems, its own metaphors, models, and methodologies. But often the best ideas come from cutting across disciplinary boundaries and looking into other fields for new ideas and questions. Many significant advances in art, business, technology, and science have come about through the cross-fertilization of ideas. And to give a corollary, nothing will make a field stagnate more quickly than keeping out outside ideas.”

- Calvin Coolidge