July 2010
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Notepad, pen, Die Hard on DVD: the best screenwriting course in the world. Yours for less than a tenner. Seriously, the combination of structure, pacing, dialogue and characterisation in that film is about as close to perfection as you can get.
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“Orpheus went leaping through the fields / Strumming as hard as he did please /...”
– The Lyre of Orpheus, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
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1966 Helvetica trade ad via Struktublog.
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“I suppose the thing I’d most like to have known or been reassured about [when I...”
– Stephen Fry (via Dan)
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Frank O’Hara, meditating in an emergency.
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“A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and fifty times: it is...”
– Le Corbusier
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Everything I love about design can be found within the photostream of Mr Erno Forsström.
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“Take your pleasure seriously.”
– Charles Eames
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As you may or may not know, I’m one of the ‘growing group of young designers and vagabonds’ posting at FormFiftyFive, one of the best sites out there for design inspiration, reviews and vacancies. Although I’ve been a bit quiet of the FFF front recently, as I gradually steer Swiss Cheese and Bullets away from being about other people’s work and more towards being...
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“I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.”
– Le Corbusier
I’m not sure, but I think I may have got the 25th anniversary edition of a Taschen book. No way to know for sure.
