PieLab - Enjoy! The Healing Powers of a Pie Shop. Bubble Project. The power of time off: Stefan Sagmeister on TED. Design New playlist: Design giants Happy Tuesday! Enjoy a bonus binge this week: a playlist about design. “Design giants” contains 13 talks by iconic modern designers. Live from TED2014 “If I don’t ask, I won’t get”: A recap of “I heart design,” All-Stars Session 4 at TED2014 By Liz Jacobs and Helen Walters It’s often said that good design is invisible design — it makes things easy and delightful without us realizing it.
Making Happy. June 13, 2007 Making Happy Replacement graphic for NYC subway signage The above graphic is not my idea. I merely recreated it. Like when I was a kid tracing the Sunday funnies—I always thought if I practiced enough, the magic would sink in and I could do it on my own. Post note: The art was made by TRUE. Right after posting in the wee hours of the morning, I consumed my smorgasbord of daily feeds hoping to wind down and get some sleep. I came across a link to Stefan Sagmeister's presentation at TED more than once—and it lingered in a back tab of my browser waiting to be fired up. Here is the video: TED Talks - Stefan Sagmeister: Yes, design can make you happy [ also note, I think the TED site design is the cat's whiskers ] If I collected all the funny YouTube I go through in any given period of time and channel it in to something else, I could actually, probably, learn something and enrich my life.
The point is, I really enjoyed Stefan's talk and I'm glad this material is available online. TRUEsamples: life instructions. 424 macon street bed-stuy, ny 11233 718. 919. 8925 TRUE@TRUEart.biz www.TRUEart.biz NON-PERMISSIONAL SITE-SPECIFIC PUBLIC INSTALLATION (1994-1999): i created my own versions of each of the mta’s subway instructional stickers, i then printed 3,000 of them and spent the next several months enlisting the aid of friends and friends of friends to ride the trains all night, installing my stickers over the originals. i called the series “life instructions,” because they each offered snippets of philosophy that had helped me turn my life in a more positive direction, and i thought that others might benefit from the ideas as well. although the largest of them were removed fairly quickly by mta officials (and admirers), the less conspicuous were seen as late as 1999. with an annual ridership of nearly 1.5 billion, one can only guess as to how many people saw these pieces over the course of their 5-year run. in each set of images below, the original is followed by my version.