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pages i'd pull out

Lonny Mag. sept-0ct 2010 issue.









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http://www.lonnymag.com/issues/10-october-november/pages/1#p1

only the boots. and yet, nowhere to be found. $75!

LZF lamps

7 habits for creativity

I read this on chasejarvis and I'm reposting it here:

Here are 7 habits that I use to help my creativity:

1. Get into adventures. Instead of saying no, say yes. Whether it’s agreeing going to the South China Sea or to Sundance festival or the grocery store.
2. Devour popular culture. Examine the work of other artists, movies, books, magazines, the interwebs.
3. Take pictures of things. I photograph things I see in the world that inspire me and use them for reference.
4. Scribble ideas. On a notepad, ipad, or whatever.
5. Share your ideas with others. Better ideas often come from a conversation. Give and receive. It’s a dialectic.
6. Ask Questions. Lots of other people know more than you do.
7. Listen. Try to listen carefully. When other people talk, you should listen. Ideas are everywhere.

All that is well and good…attempting to live an interesting or interest-ed life–via travel, adventure, new experiences, consuming the arts and devouring popular culture or whatever–is certainly a proven method to produce the raw material, the putty that makes up creative ideas….BUT, here’s a left hook. It’s all for naught…nearly useless if you don’t take one extra step…Beyond a doubt, the most important thing for shaping your raw creative material is QUIET.

Reading the biographies of so many of the great artists, inventors, and idea-people in history confirms it…they locks themselves away to get the master idea… But this is not myth. Doesn’t your own experience confirm it as well?

On reflection, it’s certainly true for me. The aesthetic for the best campaigns I’ve shot have come to me in the wee hours of the morning. Seattle 100 came to me while relaxing in my hammock on the weekend. The Best Camera ecosystem hit me in the middle of the night while on vacation. creativeLIVE was cooked up with Craig over the holidays when the studio was closed. The vision for many of my best photographs and videos have come while on airplanes, out of reach of phone calls in wireless signals. And time at the family cabin consistently produces long lists of things I want to create or do. I’m banking the same is true for you.

We’ve gotta carve out some time and space from the day to day noise…the laundry, the groceries, the homework, the job, the spouse, the friends, the television to go away.

Live and learn? How about Isolate and create.

link: chase jarvis

people silhouette vectors

300+ people silhouette vectors. I hope they have what you are looking for.
click here

Free vectors - silhouettes of things
http://www.freevectors.net/tag/Silhouette/1

patterns

Azure AZ awards

FYI
AZURE AZ awards

Rules:
To be a contender, please submit previously unawarded and unpublished works (completed before December 31, 2010) in the following five categories:

Industrial Design
Furniture, furniture systems, lighting, interior products

Architecture
Residential, commercial and institutional buildings; landscapes; temporary and demonstration spaces

Interior
Residential, commercial and institutional interiors

Concepts
Unbuilt competition entries and masterplans

A+ Award
Student work

QUICK FACTS:
Submissions open: January 1, 2011
Submission deadline: March 1, 2011
Register online at: awards.azuremagazine.com

link: link, http://awards.azuremagazine.com/

DX Bent Out of Shape!

This post is very long overdue. Though I went to the opening of the Design Exchange exhibit Bent Out of Shape “which celebrates Canada’s rich industrial design history from 1945 to the present. The exhibition is devoted to showing the Design Exchange’s permanent collection through the lens of material, method, technology, identity and transformation. In doing so Bent Out of Shape will illustrate rapid political, technological, and social changes which burst forth following the war and moving toward modernity.”