2. I got 99 degrees but my career ain’t one

    Ridley Scott studied painting at the West Hartlepool School of Art and later graduated from the Royal College of Art in London, where he studied advertising and graphic design.

    Pierce Brosnan left school at 16, he decided to be a painter and began training in commercial illustration at Central Saint Martins College of Art.

    David Carson has a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology.

  3. This is an awesome watch. Being one of my heroes, Christoph typically nails my opinion on what really talent is and why he finds the word insulting.

  4. Mustache-amorphosis

    Here’s one I made earlier, happy Movembering y’all.

  5. I can never watch this enough times.

  7. A long time ago…

    I have a new design up for scoring on threadless. Throw me a vote if you can! I’ve had this idea in my head for almost a year now, it would be great to see it printed.

  8. Molesourcing

    Leave a comment on this shameful crowd-sourcing number by Moleskin. Normally I would be used to this sort of crap by now but considering designers are the #1 target audience for moleskin the whole thing is somewhat perplexing. Their partronising blurb update and the 400+ designers leaving outraged comments has me confused as to why this promotion is still on-going. If I don’t see a revoke or an apology in the next few days, product boycotts are in order.

  9. For years, designers were good with form, good at picking the font, good with type. This is not all designers are all supposed to do, this is not what the job description always is. That’s the old way. New design thinking is about coming up with an idea and doing whatever it takes to realise that idea. If those ideas are words, then that’s what the idea is.

    — Michael Beirut (on copyrighting)

  10. Why not associates - comedy carpet

    In the summer of 2009 I did an internship at why not associates. While I was there for three months, I got to see a brief glimpse into the 5 years it would take to create the Comedy Carpet, Blackpool. I recall watching Andy Altmann and Gordon Young fretting over the type-setting in Illustrator, three years later it’s now on the cover of Creative Review and one of their most successful environmental projects to date. Well done guys!

    Five years in the making: one of the most complex pieces of public art ever commissioned at first sight, the comedy carpet looks as if the text is painted, but in fact each of the 160,000+ letters has been individually cut from 30mm solid granite or cobalt blue concrete, arranged into over 300 slabs and then cast into high quality, gleaming white concrete panels. the letters range in size from a few centimetres to over a metre so viewers can enjoy it both close up and from the glass viewing platform in the blackpool tower eye.

    Read the full article here.