Abstract Art

Joseph Albers

design matters

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education and children

Brain pickings

To Hear

Ideas

Broinpickah

art speak

On this episode of Design Matters, Debbie Millman talks to Brenda Danilowitz, Chief Curator at the <a href="http://www.albersfoundation.org/" target="_blank">Josef and Anni Albers Foundation</a>, and Philip Tiongson, a principal at <a href="http://www.potiondesign.com/" target="_blank">Potion</a>, a design and technology firm specialzing in interactive expereinces, about Josef Alber's book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Interaction-Color-50th-Anniversary-Edition/dp/0300179359" target="_blank">Interaction of Color</a>. To mark the 50th anniversary of this groundbreaking book, Yale University is realeasing an <a href="http://yupnet.org/interactionofcolor/" target="_blank">iPad app</a> of the book. The Interaction of Color mobile app for iPad helps the user understand the book&rsquo;s ideas, view the plates, experiment, and create and share designs. This interactive edition of one of the most influential books on color ever written offers users an entirely new way to experience Josef Albers&rsquo;s original masterwork.

Design Matters With Debbie Millman: Brenda Danilowitz & Philip Tiongson

"Easy to know that diamonds are precious. Good to learn that rubies have depth. But more to see that pebbles are miraculous." Excerpt from https://soundcloud.com/designmatters/interactionofcolor

Background, context, and discussion <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/08/16/interaction-of-color-josef-albers-50th-anniversary/">here</a>.

Josef Albers as an educator

Excerpt from https://soundcloud.com/designmatters/interactionofcolor

Background, context, and discussion <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/08/16/interaction-of-color-josef-albers-50th-anniversary/">here</a>.

Josef Albers and the art of seeing

Josef Albers on education as discovery

Josef Albers and unlocking the magic of color

T.S. Eliot reads from his 1930s classic, Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. Poem text, background, and other goodies here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/09/26/t-s-eliot-reads-the-naming-of-cats-1947/

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T. S. Eliot reads "The Naming of Cats" from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

recorded on a phone in a closet on Hyde st.

Stand In - Jeremi & the Uptown Three

Background and context: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/10/22/chip-kidd-go-book

Excerpted from https://soundcloud.com/designmatters

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Chip Kidd on kissing Neil Gaiman at Comic Con

The legendary graphic designer discusses his new primer for kids, GO: A Kidd's Guide to Graphic Design: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/10/22/chip-kidd-go-book

Excerpted from https://soundcloud.com/designmatters

Chip Kidd how design shapes everything

Chip Kidd on how the speed bump embodies the problem-solving genius of design

Jeremy Bernstein conducts the most thorough interview Stanley Kubrick has ever given. Background and context here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/11/27/jeremy-bernstein-stanley-kubrick-interview/

A rare interview with Stanley Kubrick (1965)

THE HAWTHORNDEN LECTURE

In 1948, the novelist and poet Jack Kerouac coined the name 'Beat Generation' for an underground, anti-conformist youth movement in New York. In the decade that followed, works such as Kerouac's On the Road, Allen Ginsberg's Howl and William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch (the last two sparkling obscenity trials that ultimately revolutionised American publishing) formed a distinct 'Beat' literature. Iain Sinclair has been described by the Daily Telegraph as 'one of our most dazzling stylists', and American Smoke, published this month, completes the trilogy he began with Hackney: That Rose-Red Empire and continued with Ghost Milk. In a talk introduced by novelist and screenwriter Deborah Moggach, he conducts a memory interrogation, touching on the past meetings, lost archives, chance discoveries, volcano obsessions and fated decisions of the Beats.

We are grateful to the Hawthornden Charitable Trust for sponsoring this event.

Ian Sinclair on the Beats

David Foster Wallace's iconic 2005 Kenyon College graduation address. Context and transcript here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/09/12/this-is-water-david-foster-wallace/

Part 2 here: http://soundcloud.com/brainpicker/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water-2

David Foster Wallace: "This Is Water" (part 1)

David Foster Wallace's iconic 2005 Kenyon College graduation address. Context and transcript here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/09/12/this-is-water-david-foster-wallace/

Part 1 here: http://soundcloud.com/brainpicker/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water-1

David Foster Wallace: "This Is Water" (part 2)

"The arrows of adverse criticism cannot scratch, let alone pierce, the shield of what disappointed archers call my 'self-assurance.'"

Background and context:  http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/01/18/vladimir-nabokov-james-mossman-interview/

Vladimir Nabokov on literature and life (1969)

Read more: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/01/10/massimo-vignelli-debbie-millman/

Excerpt from Debbie Millman's Design Matters interview: https://soundcloud.com/designmatters/massimo-vignelli

Graphic designer Massimo Vignelli on the three pillars of design education

Read more: www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/01/10/massimo-vignelli-debbie-millman/

Excerpt from Debbie Millman's Design Matters interview: https://soundcloud.com/designmatters/massimo-vignelli