If you haven’t heard about Link with Love, they are an amazing site of artists, designers, writers, and thinkers who have joined forces in the effort to bring awareness of properly citing sources. Artists work hard to create these works that are rampantly spread on social media, and are hardly ever given the credit they deserve. This poster is an amazing diagram for those of you who don’t know about citing sources.
IT WAS AN uber AMAZING DAY when Design For Mankind’s Erin Loechner sent LINKwithlove.org this message to share on her behalf:
The Internet is vast, vast, vast. And original sources are often impossible to find. I get that. As a blogger, I’ve come across dozens of images daily with no original source, almost as if they’ve appeared out of thin air. Yet someone, somewhere, took great pride in creating that image, and we need to celebrate that pride… as a community.
Thus, I’d encourage you to come up with your own protocol/photo technique and to link with love. Will you refuse to post all images without proper credit, period? Or will you come up with a SOS system of your own? Will you go as far as to boycott the use of social networking / bookmarking sites that don’t regulate original sourcing of images?
I’d love for everyone to receive the praise they so deserve in the best way possible.Let’s all hold ourselves to a higher standard, OK?
In May of this year, Pixar animator Austin Madison kindly hand-wrote the following open letter to aspiring artists, in a bid to inspire them through times of creative drought. It’s a lovely, eloquent letter, and in fact contains advice valuable to people in many a creative field. It was written as a contribution to the Animator Letters Project.
Transcript
PIXAR
May 17, 2011
To Whom it May Inspire,
I, like many of you artists out there, constantly shift between two states. The first (and far more preferable of the two) is white-hot, “in the zone” seat-of-the-pants, firing on all cylinders creative mode. This is when you lay your pen down and the ideas pour out like wine from a royal chalice! This happens about 3% of the time.
The other 97% of the time I am in the frustrated, struggling, office-corner-full-of-crumpled-up-paper mode. The important thing is to slog diligently through this quagmire of discouragement and despair. Put on some audio commentary and listen to the stories of professionals who have been making films for decades going through the same slings and arrows of outrageous production problems.
In a word: PERSIST.
PERSIST on telling your story. PERSIST on reaching your audience. PERSIST on staying true to your vision. Remember what Peter Jackson said, “Pain is temporary. Film is forever.” And he of all people should know.
So next time you hit writer’s block, or your computer crashes and you lose an entire night’s work because you didn’t hit save (always hit save), just remember: you’re never far from that next burst of divine creativity. Work through that 97% of murky abyssmal mediocrity to get to that 3% which everyone will remember you for!
I guarantee you, the art will be well worth the work!
Your friend and mine,
Austin Madison
“ADVENTURE IS OUT THERE!”
(via Letters of Notes; Animated Letters Project)
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By far one of the greatest UI sites I’ve seen. Granted your average consumer is going to be a bit confused when they open this site up, but for us tech geeks, I thinks its just too damn beautiful not to share.
The email, FTP, and blog sectionals are my favorite.
Enjoy!
(Source: atlason.com)
Really Nice Logo Designed by Nicole Meyer.
Check out the rest of her portfolio here
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Dana Tanamachi is a graphic designer and custom chalk letterer who hails from the Lone Star State, but currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. She is a graphic designer by day for Louise Fili Ltd, a NYC-based studio specializing in logo, package, restaurant, and book design.
After hours, she can be found writing on people’s walls all over New York City as a custom chalk letterer. And she is most certainly available for commission.
Dana’s chalk lettering has recently been featured on blogs such as 100 Layer Cake, Hello!Lucky,Quipsologies, DesignWorkLife, Apartment Therapy,Martha Stewart Weddings and Kottke.org.
