“Designed by Apple in California, Made in China”
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Grew up in Hong Kong playing ping pong.
Traveled half way around the globe at 17 speaking half the language.
Studied Economics and Linguistics @ U of T.
One day I realized life is so much more than numbers, I bought a camera and started recording history. Hope to make a difference with images.
-Harry Choi

designing as writing

SERENDIPITY

It is you who decide your future

[visual] writing
a [visual] composition lesson

norm
normal
normality

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-LADY GAGA

10 design principles
01 Good design is innovative
02 Good design makes a product useful
03 Good design is aesthetic
04 Good design helps us to understand a product
05 Good design is unobtrusive
06 Good design is honest
07 Good design is durable
08 Good design is consequent to the last detail
09 Good design is concerned with the environment
10 Good design is as little design as possible
-Dieter rams

“I am not sure what an ideal education in type looks like. I would say that I am a believer in an apprentice-style system, which is how I learned at Font Bureau. I believe in teaching a specific method for drawing type and learning from experience. I think the best thing someone can do to learn to draw type is to draw as many different kinds of typefaces as they can.”
-Cyrus Highsmith

“Why be rebellious all the time?” asks Grootens. “Let’s concentrate on content. In the Netherlands rebellion is often mistaken for intelligence.”
Content, however, can be the powder keg of revolution.
-Joost Grootens

I love books

Practice makes perfection. It's all from my head. You have your own way -if you become an expert you have your own way of doing things.
-Joseph Churchward

How to Work Better
1. Do one thing at a time
2. Know the problem
3. Learn to Listen
4. Learn to ask Questions
5. Distinguish Sense from Nonsense
6. Accept change as Inevitable
7. Admit Mistakes
8. Say it simple
9. Be Calm
10. Smile
-Fischli & Weiss

chutzpah!

I don't like
luxury in typography
the use of gold
or brilliant paper
i prefer the rough
in contour and surface
torn forms

Our favourite teacher at the Rietveld Academy (Amsterdam) was Linda van Deursen. The most important thing she imparted to us was a certain mentality, a state of mind. She never romanticized graphic design or tried to create an aura of mystery around it. She has a totally no-nonsense attitude.
-Experimental Jetset