March 2012
1 post
The End
I’m no longer updating this tumblr. Sorry about that. However, you can … nay, you must … visit my regular blog at danielgray.com, where I discuss lots of film and design things.I think you’ll like it – you look like a person with impeccable taste.
I like your shoes, by the way. Nice.
February 2012
1 post
The End
I’m no longer updating this tumblr. Please redirect your eyes to my blog at danielgray.com. Thank you all for following and liking and commenting, etc. You’re all wise, handsome devils.
March 2011
4 posts
New blog
A quick reminder to those of you who may not have realised: I no longer do my bloggery on tumblr. It’s now over here: www.swisscheeseandbullets.com. Go and have a look. Go on.
“Knowing how to read and not reading books is like owning skiis and not skiing,...”
– Chuck Jones
“The extent to which you have a design style is the extent to which you have not...”
– Charles Eames
“I will solve your problem for you. And you will pay me. And you don’t have to...”
– Paul Rand
February 2011
38 posts
“If you do good work for good clients, it will lead to other good work for other...”
– Michael Bierut
“Do not dismiss a book until you have written one, and do not dismiss a movie...”
– Dave Eggers
“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of...”
– Frederic Chopin
“Some people thrive on clutter and mess and other people can’t stand it. I like...”
– Massimo Vignelli
“A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and fifty times: it is...”
– Le Corbusier
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Beauty will result from the form and the correspondence of the whole, with...”
– Andrea Palladio
“A design should have some tension and some expression in itself. I like to...”
– Wim Crouwel
“There are various reasons for using the grid as an aid in the organization of...”
– Josef Muller-Brockmann
“The grid system is an aid, not a guarantee. It permits a number of possible uses...”
– Josef Muller-Brockmann
“Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.”
– Susan Sontag
“I want everything we do to be beautiful. I don’t give a damn whether the client...”
– Saul Bass
“Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony;...”
– Albert Einstein
“If you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself.”
– Eric Gill, An Essay on Typography
“There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.”
– Arthur C Clarke
“Be undeniably good. When people ask me how do you make it in show business or...”
– Steve Martin
“The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability...”
– Stanley Kubrick
“There are three kinds of man you must never trust: a man who hunts south of the...”
– Sir James Richards
“It dawned on me in the nineties, that cities are a lot like magazines. They...”
– Paula Scher, Make It Bigger
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and...”
– Dr Seuss
“To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is...”
– Ellen Lupton
“Be early / never be faux busy / know when to say no / be generous / learn to...”
– Ben Terrett
“The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the...”
– Tom Peters
“One of the things our grandchildren will find quaintest about us is that we...”
– William Gibson
“In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little yet enjoy a...”
– Anton Ego, Ratatouille
“Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“I don’t want online content to mimic print any more than I want to watch TV...”
– Jeremy Leslie
“Always read with a pen in hand. The pen should be used both to mark the text you...”
– Mandy Brown
“Creativity usually doesn’t strike in front of the computer. Computers are about...”
– Frank Chimero
“I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.”
– Le Corbusier
“Don’t tell me you need a bridge, show me the canyon!”
– Giuseppe Delena
“No one thought people would want to follow strangers, or that celebrities would...”
– Stephen Levy
“The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t...”
– Neil Gaiman
“Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your...”
– E. L. Doctrow
“It is important to use your hands, this is what distinguishes you from a cow or...”
– Paul Rand, Conversations with students
“One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation...”
– Bertrand Russell
“Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your...”
– Charles Eames
“Give up owning things and being somebody. Quit existing.”
– Jelaluddin Rumi
January 2011
13 posts
“Before 1454 (the year the printing press was introduced) witchcraft was...”
– David Crow
“Newman’s first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you’re upside down.”
– Paul Newman
1 tag
C A R S O N
So, here comes new magazine on the block C A R S O N. ”Dedicated to quality in design, fine art, illustration, photography and writing”, edited by Alex Storch, with creative direction from Carson.
Before I go any further, a disclaimer. I’ve been offered a free subscription to C A R S O N in return for blogging about it. I wouldn’t normally do that, but David Carson has...
