LARRY LESSIG

Larry Lessig on laws that choke creativity.

I couldn't even make it through this one because of his voice. It reminds me of Emily Austin's type speech on questions at the end of sentences. That's all I could think about while watching... I just kept thinking of her motion. From what I heard, he did make some good points, though.

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Milton Glaser is the man.

"I've always believed that the life of the designer is of two sensibilities— one of a businessman and one of a designer."

Art can bring people together across cultures. Milton Glaser's work is appreciated across the world. Artists work to sell their product and to make a point. Designers are essentially the same, so why the divide? Milton teaches because it makes him feel good. He finds it exciting to see somebody change and improve from something he has said or done to help them. When I was little, I made my dad buy me an overhead projector, because I wanted to be a teacher when I grew up. I had a classroom set up in the basement, with school supplies and real desks, and would spend day in and day out talking to myself (students) and grading papers (ones I had done). I love to learn. I love to learn about life and to help others put life into perspective. I think I should get in touch with that principle again. I want to help others learn from the mistakes that I've made and push them into something better.

Social commentary is part of the graphic design practice because we have the ability to transfer ideas. These ideas should cause no harm. You want to do something that relates to where you are, your city, your home, your world.

"If you can sustain your interest in what you're doing, you're an extremely fortunate person. You get tired, and indifferent, and sometimes defensive, and you kind of lose your capacity for astonishment. And that's a great loss—because the world is a very astonishing place. Things still amaze me."

To speak on this quote, I feel like my design potential is hindered by the fact that I'm in school and cannot time manage everything that I want to accomplish. Though time management is a stronger quality of mine, it feels like it's never enough. My ability to come up with concepts and ideas, and to be inspired by anything and everything will soon pay off, and I won't have to be on the side of actually making the design.

"your life needs to be balanced between home and space."

Debbie Millman is the president of the AIGA. Her podcast show is called "Design Matters" and has been around since 2005. I listened to her interview with Natalia Ilyin. Natalia Ilyin is a design critic, teacher, author, and practitioner. She takes a personal look at the philosophy of modernism and its effects on our culture, most defiantly some icons of our culture.

"I have no interest in looking bizarre, because I'm bizarre in the inside."
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Refugeeism and place are very important to her. She thinks it fits into her perfectionism. "If you don't know where you're from, you don't know who you are." —Stigner. Ilyin thinks that's very important, not just for every people, but also for designers. I like that Ilyin connects design with concepts of life and the lessons of life that should be learned—such as the importance of home or the realization of self.

for people who give a damn.

www.good.is

GOOD is a new kind of agency—a nonprofit organization that integrates all forms of media to help others via design. The website and quarterly magazine cover a variety of topics of current events in the food, politics, health, culture, and urban planning realm. I believe that doing work for others is more beneficial than anything, and especially in a design sense. Life is too short to be concerned with yourself. The people that you meet and learn from are what will help you to succeed.

I'm not a crook.

Who is speaking? Former President Richard Nixon.

Why was/is the speech important to society? It was a HUGE scandal at the time (1973) and this was Nixon's chance to defend himself to the American people to insist that he had not made any profit from his public service.

Why do you feel this is important or interesting? A lot of people during his time thought that Nixon was a fraud and a crook - hearing his side is a little ironic.

What is the emotion, mood, tone, personality, feeling of the speech? It was an hour-long televised question and answer session by the President. He seems tense and misspoken, but kept insisting his innocent standing on the Watergate scandal. He acknowledged he made a mistake in not supervising the campaign activities closer. It feels like a plead. There's a sense of guilt in his voice.

What is intonation, emphasis, what is loud, stressed, or soft. Where are there pauses...
What do you FEEL should be loud or soft, long pause or rushed? Loud="I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life I have never obstructed justice." "I've earned everything I've got." Soft= The parts about how he got the money to pay for the things he did. Paused= "So that's where the money came from." "I made my mistakes. But in all my years in public life... public service. I've earned every cent. I've never obstructed justice." "I'm not a crook."

Is there a call to action? When listening to it what are key/emphasized words? His call to action is to assure America he is not a crook.

How does it make you feel? It makes me feel a little uncomfortable. I feel like he is apologizing to me personally, when really I wasn't alive at the time.

How do you imagine that the audience felt? I bet some (Democrats, maybe?) were all for it, trying to convince everyone that he was a good President. I'm sure others just laughed at it the whole time.

Write/find a short bio, of the person giving the speech.

In the presidential election of 1972, Nixon and Agnew ran against Democrats George McGovern (1922–) and Sargent Shriver (1915–). The election was a landslide for Nixon, but no one was expecting what would happen next. During his last election campaign, what first appeared as a minor burglary was to become the beginning of the end of Nixon's political career. A break-in at Democratic national headquarters in the Watergate apartment complex in Washington, D.C., was linked to Republicans.

During the trial of six men charged in the crime, the existence of the cover-up began to emerge and government officials fell like dominos in its path. By October 1973, as the Watergate investigation continued, Nixon lost several top aides as well as his vice president. Agnew resigned before pleading no contest to federal charges of receiving bribes, failing to pay his taxes properly, and other crimes while serving as governor of Maryland.

Soon the U.S. Supreme Court forced Nixon to turn over tape recordings he made during the election. The tapes showed he obstructed, or blocked, justice in stopping a Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) probe of the Watergate burglary. On August 9, 1974, in national disgrace, he became the first president of the United States to choose to leave office before the end of his term. He boarded a plane with his wife and returned to his California home, ending his public career. A month later, in a controversial move, President Gerald Ford (1913–) issued an unconditional pardon for any offenses Nixon might have committed while president.

"what problem should design solve next?"

"I believe that people should not print things that they don't care about... if it's going to be some throw away item, it shouldn't exist anymore."

Amen, Jessica Hische. You my girl.

I think the couple that said the iphone inspires them most were dead on. The iphone is a powerful system.. what will come next?

"What single example of design inspires you most?"

The fact that it will only go up from here. Each project I design progresses from the last, and the evolution of my skills in design inspires me to keep getting better to progress from the last thing I did. It makes learning worth it.

"What problem should design solve next?"

I think design should be a part of everyone's lives, whether it be designing a kitchen pantry or their closet. Design is so versatile and can be spread amongst many different sorts.

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What are the advantages of a multiple column grid? A multiple column grid allows for a greater number of layout possibilities when designing text on a page. It also allows the reader’s eyes rest while reading.

How many characters is optimal for a line length? words per line? 45 to 75 characters is optimal for a line length.

Why is the baseline grid used in design? Baseline grids help the words to look like they aren't floating. The curved parts of the letters dip a little bit below the baseline. Intro text and sub texts align and columns line up.

What is a typographic river? A river is gaps appearing to run down a paragraph of text caused by a coincidental alignment of spaces.

From the readings what does clothesline or flow line mean? It’s the horizontal line that appears on a layout within the text.

How can you incorporate white space into your designs? Don't fill the entire page with text or images creating a place for the eye to rest.

What is type color/texture mean? How the type size, weight and line kerning affect how the text reads either as dark or light, mono or multi-chromatic.

What is x-height, how does it affect type color? The height of a lowercase x of a given typeface

In justification or H&J terms what do the numbers: minimum, optimum, maximum mean? The specific amount of space between words, the minimum being at the least possible, the optimum just right.

What are some ways to indicate a new paragraph. Are there any rules? Indentation, but no indenting of the first paragraph. You can do a first-line indent, running indent, hanging indent, or on-a-point indent.

What are some things to look out for when hyphenating text. Hyphens are used strictly for hyphenating words or line breaks. En dashes are for amounts of time such as spans of hours, days or years. Em dashes are abrupt changes in thought or where a period is too strong and a comma too weak.

What is a ligature? A ligature occurs where two or more characters are joined as a single glyph.

What does CMYK and RGB mean? CYMK stands for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black while RGB stands for Red, Green, and Blue. They are both color models.

What does hanging punctuation mean? Hanging punctuation or exdentation is a way of typesetting punctuation marks and bullet points, most commonly quotation marks and hyphens, so that they do not disrupt the ‘flow’ of a body of text or ‘break’ the margin of alignment.

What is the difference between a foot mark and an apostrophe? What is the difference between an inch mark and a quote mark (smart quote)? Foot marks and inch marks are generic symbols that look like this ' (inch) " (foot). An apostrophe and quote mark have a small circle and curve that make it present the quote or word, such as “” ‘’. The default for a foot mark and inch mark is that on the computer keyboard. To make the apostrophes and smart quotes you hit option+[ (left bracket is quote, right bracket is apostrophe). To make them go the other direction add shift.

What is a hyphen, en dash and em dashes, what are the differences and when are they used. A hyphen (-) is used for hyphenating words or line breaks. _An en dash is used between words indicating a duration such as hourly time or months or years. It is used with a thin space before and after, but not a full space. It is made with option+hyphen. An em dash is twice as long as the en dash. It is used in a manner similar to colon or parentheses, or indicates an abrupt change in thought. It is made with option+shift+hyphen.

What are ligatures, why are they used, when are they not used, what are common ligatures? A ligature occurs where two or more characters are joined as a single glyph.

JONATHAN HARRIS:

He is a radical thinker and very focused. He religiously kept sketchbooks of mixed media and other assorted things and after being robbed at gunpoint, he realized the benefit of digital work that cannot be destroyed in a sense. I love that he digitalizes objects and combines all elements of design, including architect and other assorted things.

I enjoyed listening to Jonathan speak, as he had some interesting things to share. It did not bore me. He is fearless. He threw away two months of work to restart a concept. I felt like I was at an enhanced Hallmark symposium where I could clean my room while watching/listening... loved it. The speech, or letter that he wrote, was very touching. It hit a weird spot for me, something I had never thought about before. Computers are taking over our world, and Harris made a good point that people are very complex and when working with code a lot, you lose the sense of expression. Layers of abstraction gradually wear down your expression. Advertising companies come up with mediocre designs because someone comes up with the design, someone makes it, someone makes the code, and so on. Ideas are a way of getting to the goal, ideas are techniques. Designers must not get caught up in how conceptually appealing an object is, but rather how it can improve humans.

- J.