Q: We, The Surveilers? A: Yes, we are doing it ourselves.
Q: Each morning, you sweep the apartment? A: Yes. Q: At our end, Performance will be the enduring art form? A: Yes.
Q: Is your dictionary out of order?: Yes.
Q: On gadgets and items: an innovative–or at the very least, thoughtful–a/x-oranmental material/surface is all that can distinguish worth from worthless.
Q: IN A DISTANT FUTURE THERE WILL BE ONLY SENDERS, AND ALL THAT WILL EXIST IS THE NOISE AMONG THEIR MESSAGES.
A: Yes, and THAT MOMENT OF NEGLIGENT PASSING WILL BE THE ONLY EVIDENCE, AND THE ONLY ACHIEVEMENT OF COMMUNICATION ANY MESSAGE WILL HAVE. AND THE RECIEVERS ALL HAVE BECOME SEARCHERS, EVEN SEEKERS, OF THE MESSAGE.
Q: What's lost with the digital technology we've encounterd over the past 15 years...is wonder, loss, so-long...
Q: You draw–and both forms/shapes as well as texts are considered drawing–to be a better human, not to be a better desinger or writer? A: Yes: Each is their own type of composition: scribbling, doodling, sketching, jotting... they're all the root of something greater: focusing, caring, sensing.
Q: Typography (and graphic design as an entirety) is usually one of the most immediate visual identifiers of–and establishers of–a period or moment in time. And now that those moments and periods are happening more rapidly and more broadly with less time in between, the designer is forced to work at a certain and sometimes uncomfortable and perhaps misunderstood pace (to keep up)? A: Yes. But why keep up at all. Do the work how it is most natural to that work.➪➫➬
Q: At our end, Performance will be the enduring art form? A: Yes. Q: Is your dictionary out of order?: Yes.
Q: On gadgets and items: an innovative–or at the very least, thoughtful–a/x-oranmental material/surface is all that can distinguish worth from worthless.
Q: IN A DISTANT FUTURE THERE WILL BE ONLY SENDERS, AND ALL THAT WILL EXIST IS THE NOISE AMONG THEIR MESSAGES.
A: Yes, and THAT MOMENT OF NEGLIGENT PASSING WILL BE THE ONLY EVIDENCE, AND THE ONLY ACHIEVEMENT OF COMMUNICATION ANY MESSAGE WILL HAVE. AND THE RECIEVERS ALL HAVE BECOME SEARCHERS, EVEN SEEKERS, OF THE MESSAGE.
Q: What's lost with the digital technology we've encounterd over the past 15 years...is wonder, loss, so-long...
Q: You draw–and both forms/shapes as well as texts are considered drawing–to be a better human, not to be a better desinger or writer? A: Yes: Each is their own type of composition: scribbling, doodling, sketching, jotting... they're all the root of something greater: focusing, caring, sensing.
Q: Typography (and graphic design as an entirety) is usually one of the most immediate visual identifiers of–and establishers of–a period or moment in time. And now that those moments and periods are happening more rapidly and more broadly with less time in between, the designer is forced to work at a certain and sometimes uncomfortable and perhaps misunderstood pace (to keep up)? A: Yes. But why keep up at all. Do the work how it is most natural to that work.➪➫➬
A small bit of copy here maybe goes to two lines, bit most likely will not be any longer than 45-50 characters.WSJ Future of Everything
Q: Typography (and graphic design as an entirety) is usually one of the most immediate visual identifiers of–and establishers of–a period or moment in time. And now that those moments and periods are happening more rapidly and more broadly with less time in between, the designer is forced to work at a certain and sometimes uncomfortable and perhaps misunderstood pace (to keep up)? A: Yes. But why keep up at all. Do the work how it is most natural to that work.➪➫➬
⚑ In the coming weeks I'll be re-establishing both this site and the general practice of this studio to its origins of curiosity and interrogations. Updates are regular, mostly.
