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AGI OPEN @ AOTEA SQUARE NOTES

Below are the notes I took on each speaker when I had the privilege of going to the AGI event. The star beside some of the names were my favourite speakers and so I also went and found some images online of their work that I enjoy.

TAKU SATOH *

TSDO website. HODO HODO = just enough. Gerry Lopez— surf realisation is designed by him. The ecological approach to visual design. A piece of cloth by Taku Satoh. HODO HODO design / just enough design. All things in moderation. Pure malt whiskey design. The more unique the shape the more quickly it’ll become trash. Reflective design rather than assertive. 21_21 design site gallery.

ASTRID STARVO

Interview magazine inspiration. Grid notepad maker based on influencial design books. Kiss— keep is simple, stupid.

IRENE PEREYA *

UX design specialist, website + user experience. M+ museum site designer. Thonix did the brand design / design identity system. Shantel Marleen? Meditative line drawing playful website designed. ‘One shared house’ website lesbian commune house epic. Inspired by where in the world is Carmen San Diego. Their design studio is called Anton & Irene.

1. Good UX can be unfamiliar.

2. Sometimes good UX should be beautiful first. We are biased to believe a more beautiful product works better.

3. Good UX does get in the way.

4. Good UX relocates complexity.

5. Good UX should be learned.

6. Good UX cannot be measured.

7. Good UX addresses my (the designers) needs.

HENRIK KUBEL

A2-Type. Designed Rail Alphabet 2 — designed for signage for railway stations.

PAUL GARBET *

Curiosity and optimism and empathy driving design. We create whatever we observe, the act of observation is an act of creation. Seeing faces in things is called pareidolia. Author of seeing things.

MICHEALA WEBB

Inbetween posters— working with First Nation Australian artists and designers.

DEAN POOLE

Alt group. Designing for Fisher & Paykel appliances. Design has to be present and keep stories alive. Designer of good shit soda. A hole poster is really cool.

AHN SANG-SOO

Designer of the life peace symbol. Korean designer. Life peace diary with iterations very cool. Pati design school is made by him / designed as well. Pati’s motto is “just play!” + “be spellbound!”. He’s kind of awesome just working and making a school in the pursuit of harbouring happiness, making new rules, changing things up.

ALEJANDRO PAUL

Calligrapher + Typographer. Very cool decorative font like Atelier Volatire + Varietta + Rigatoni + Fixture + Tinkuy. All very very cool I’ll look into these. Key Mono Asciii Art maybe Stephen should know this. Sudtipos type design studio.

PAUL BOUDENS *

Fashion and graphic design mix work on publications and posters, red is favourite colour to use. Started at Walter studio doing design for fashion design stuff. Number A magazine designer and creator.

EDDIE OPERA

Omaha performing arts designer. Apart of pentagram. Designing The Joslyn museum brand identity system. Made a 3 new typefaces based on the three forms of the three main museum buildings, the joslyn, the Hawkes, the Scott.

BLACK GRACE

Awesome performance with graphic movement tracking. Moving Tapu cloth.

PAULA SCHER *

Pentagram designer. A brand is an amalgamation of things. Designing the brand is just working on how it’s perceived. Graphic Design New York she has work in it and it looks cool. She became a play poster designer for the Public Theatre. Designing for each season of plays. Posters and systems as a whole and not just individuals. Systems in the erratic. Custom Knockout font design where the fonts could be edited in relation to each play. Very cool!

STEFAN SAGMEISTER

We are programmed to enjoy negative news. Designed data visualisations into old paintings to show how much better things have gotten. Also clothes that represent the data very cool! and water glasses. Hospital hallway design. Very all about optimism and spreading happiness. Made a book talking about those data paintings.

LARS MULLER

He is a publisher mostly. “The book is the only printed matter that is meant to last”. Books are a 3 dimensional object. The cover is what makes the book remembered. Uses simple design but the material and details make it intricate and interesting. Uses cement as a cover once also lots of subtle embossing used. Back cover matters too because of the ability to feel the back when you hold it which is much more likely to be touched than the front cover so the back is not to be dismissed.

THOMAS WIDDERSHOVEN

Leader at Thonik. Designed museum Boijmans inspired by the font and Mexican olympics design by Lance Wyman. Designed their building also inspired by these ideas alongside an architect. Made the book “why we design”. @studiothonik.

YAH-LENG YU

Designer of house facades in Singapore under this brand ‘Figment’. National gallery in Singapore design.

KRIS SOWERSBY

Klim type foundry person. Big font and typography maker, inspiring letter forms from Māori culture. Researching older more traditional type treatments to make digital and modern. Fonts Ata and Atakau. Works with Johnson Witehira too on this.

JONATHAN CASTRO ALEJOS *

Traces and Dirty Listening. Interested in the idea of printing noise. Archiving of traces or grafitti in the city. Traces of people left behind. Designing viynl covers since it goes into the idea of sound and noise as a physical mark:

KENYA HARA

Designer at Muji. The world is organic but mankind designed everything square. RE design project where he asked designers to redesign a bunch of 21st century products. Thinking fresh and new from anything we’ve ever seen before. Global becoming important also means the importance of local also increases. High Resolution Tour. Takeo paper show. “Make things unknown and then visualise them”. Gathering peoples attentions by emptyness.

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bobbystompy · 3 years

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91 Quotes I Enjoyed From 2020

Below are my favorite quotes from 2020. Though most occurred throughout the year, some took place before but were encountered during.

1) “You don’t have to be new to make new.” - Rick Rubin

2) “He put the beat on and go to sleep then wake up with a verse.” - The Lox

3) “Every opinion is bad.” - Blink-155

(via Twitter)

5) “At the start of every disaster movie, there’s a scientist being ignored.”

6) “Be brave enough to suck at something new.”

7) “Comedy is the only job you can have where you can use everything you know” - Robin Williams via Dave Chappelle

8) “What’s the worst swear word where you live?” - Josiah Hughes

9) “Cookies are a really great way to get everybody to like you for a short period of time” - YSAC

10) “The worst dancer at a wedding is the one who’s not dancing.” - John Mulaney

11) “I never saw the end of the tunnel. I only saw myself running out of one." - Kobe Bryant

12) "A good movie begins as you're walking out of the theater" - Ethan Hawke

13) “When I was young and starting in cinema, there was a saying that I carved deep into my heart which is, 'The most personal is the most creative.’ That quote was from our great Martin Scorsese.” - Bong Joon-ho

14) “Run to the rescue with love, and peace will follow” - River Phoenix via Joaquin Phoenix

15) “Thank you -- I will drink until next morning.” - Bong Joon-ho

16) “Men will bury their emotions for decades and then take it all out on children tubing while they drive the boat.” - @krauter_

17) “They help you with the dumb face stuff, but they don’t tell you how to fix it” - Adam (Nate’s friend), on having older sisters

18) “We all had our connections, but it’s not the details themselves that matter, it’s the feeling behind them. There are a million coming-of-age tales. Lady Bird’s secret sauce is how deeply its creator gave a shit. The older I get, the less I care about anything but the sense of a filmmaker’s personal connection to the material. It doesn’t matter what it’s about, what genre it is, or whether it’s genre at all. I only really care that it feels like something the filmmaker had to tell me, and that it was that filmmaker in particular who had to tell it. It has to answer the ‘why are you telling me this’ question, and not just why are you telling me, but why are you telling me.

Lady Bird is a movie that feels like only Greta Gerwig could’ve made. And it’s only because it’s so specific to her that it can be so meaningful to so many people.” - Vince Mancini

19) "I have cast some lonely votes, fought some lonely fights, mounted some lonely campaigns. But I do not feel lonely now.” - Bernie Sanders

20) “Ever hear a Beatles song you haven’t heard before?”

21) “Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now.” - Charles Bukowski

22) “You shouldn’t have to hear a band to know if they’re good or not” - Josiah Hughes

23) “I was raised by OGs. Some of you were raised by IG. I understand.” - Ice-T

* * *

[Here is where I note the line of demarcation that was the COVID-19 pandemic hitting the US, pushed forward by Tom Hanks’ announcement, the NBA and NCAA shutting down, and, then, the nation itself.]

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24) “There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.” - Vladimir Lenin

25) "Taken together, this is a massive failure in leadership that stems from a massive defect in character. Trump is such a habitual liar that he is incapable of being honest, even when being honest would serve his interests. He is so impulsive, shortsighted, and undisciplined that he is unable to plan or even think beyond the moment. He is such a divisive and polarizing figure that he long ago lost the ability to unite the nation under any circumstances and for any cause. And he is so narcissistic and unreflective that he is completely incapable of learning from his mistakes. The president’s disordered personality makes him as ill-equipped to deal with a crisis as any president has ever been. With few exceptions, what Trump has said is not just useless; it is downright injurious." - Peter Wehner

26) "Epidemics have a way of revealing underlying truths about the societies they impact." - Anne Applebaum

27) “A funny thing about quarantining is hearing your partner in full work mode for the first time. Like, I’m married to a ‘let’s circle back’ guy — who knew?” - Laura Norkin

28)

(Jojo Rabbit)

29) “The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. - Deadwood: The Movie

30) “All bleeding stops eventually.” - Deadwood: The Movie

31) “Our Father, which art in heaven… / Let him fucking stay there” - Deadwood: The Movie

32) “It’s like a power outage, but we still have power” - Ryen Russillo, on the pandemic

33) “Whenever Sox baseball returns, it’ll be weird to not have Farmer on the call any more. The relationship between a fan and longtime announcer is always built in the little moments. One afternoon, he’s the soundtrack as you clean the garage. On another night, he’s your bookmark for the game as you stand in line for churros or walk down the ramps at Sox Park to try for better seats in the 100 level. A voice like Farmer’s becomes so familiar that you only really notice when it’s no longer there.” - Kevin Kaduk, on the passing of Ed Farmer

34)

(via Twitter)

35) “In my songs, I try to look through someone else’s eyes, and I want to give the audience a feeling more than a message” - John Prine

36) “Observe everything. Admire nothing.” - Generation Kill

37) “Trump, by that definition, has always been a wartime president -- always willing to sacrifice people he doesn’t know to things he only sort of cares about” - David Roth

38) "Whenever they speak Michael Jordan, they should speak Scottie Pippen." - Michael Jordan

39) "Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach." - Hunter S. Thompson

40) “Airlines sending me “we’re in this together” emails. When my suitcase was 52 pounds I was on my own.” - Mike Dentale

41) “Sometimes you can be the worst source of your own story” - Ryen Russillo

42) “Family is not necessarily blood, but instead who you would bleed for.”

43)

(via Twitter)

44) "This is the deal that Jordan made, knowingly or unknowingly — that he would trade everything he had for everything he wanted. And then, when he won all those things, he found that he had nothing but that.” - David Roth

45) “I’m brand loyal, but the brand doesn’t matter” - Caitie Miller, on why she doesn’t like generic peanut butter

46) “NOBODY shitposts Gene Hackman!!” - Mark Dehlinger

47) “When a man concludes that any stick is good enough to beat his foe with—that is when he picks up a boomerang.” - G.K. Chesterton

48) “You can be appalled forever, but shocked only once.” - Jeff Weiss, on early Eminem

49) “Whether I’m pessimistic or optimistic, the fight’s the same” - David Simon

50) “Freedom can never be completely won, but it can be lost.” - Bernard Simon

51) “Racism in America is like dust in the air. It seems invisible — even if you’re choking on it — until you let the sun in. Then you see it’s everywhere. As long as we keep shining that light, we have a chance of cleaning it wherever it lands.” -Kareem Abdul Jabbar

52) “In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist -- we must be anti-racist.” - Angela Davis

53) “Start as close to the end as possible” - Kurt Vonnegut, on creative writing

54) “You can’t stay woke all the time — that’s insomnia.” - Dr. Cornel West

55) “No, I get it. I’ve dated a lot of Geminis.”

56) “The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” - John Krakauer, Into The Wild (via Tyler Keller)

57) "I couldn't show them my For You because it's pretty much just lesbian stuff and depression memes" - Maggie Loesch, on showing TikTok to her coworkers

58) "It's 1 a.m. in Slovakia and I've already had one bottle of wine and I don't know how long this press conference will go, so good luck to me." - Marian Hossa, following his NHL Hall of Fame announcement

59) “All I want in life is to go on an Anguilla group trip” - Mandy Gilkes

60) “You miss old friends when you don’t see them, but you miss them more when you do.” - Chuck Klosterman

61) “The only way to appreciate the present is to pretend it’s already the past.” - Chuck Klosterman

62) Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth, oh, never mind You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth Until they've faded, but trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back At photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now How much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked

(”Everybody's Free [To Wear Sunscreen]”)

Second time that essay’s been quoted on this list.

64) "I mean, it's just human nature to suck up to the people above you, crap on those beneath you, and undercut your equals” - Brian, Family Guy

65) “You never quit a job. You quit a manager.” - Brian Bedford

66) “All the pictures in my house are of people I’m not friends with” - Tracy Cunningham

67) “In order to leave something behind, you have to leave.” - Dr. Herman, Grey’s Anatomy

68)

(via Twitter)

69) “You can obsess about death if you don’t have to obsess about dying.” - Brendan Kelly via “White Noise”

70) “If it’s right to do, it’s wrong to wait.” - Andy, doorman

71)

72) “When I'm sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court] and I say, 'When there are nine,' people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that.” - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

73) "America is mostly people who’ve never left their state saying we have the best country in the world." - Billy Wayne Davis

74) “A writer is someone who knows at least 80% of their writing sucks.” - Gabe Hudson

75)

(via Twitter)

76) “You’re dead twice” - Brendan Kelly

77) “Perfect is the enemy of good” - Voltaire (via Zach Lowe)

78) “I don’t want to be a savior, I want to be a mirror.” - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

79) “I get bad Twitter FOMO but not real life FOMO. That just goes to show I need to get off the Internet.” - Josh Thomas

80) “Is there anything you love in life that you engage with seriously that you don't also engage with humor?" - Sam Sutherland, on his relationship with Blink-182

81) “My favorite genre of music is my friends' bands" - Josiah Hughes

82) “Let’s fall in love like both our parents aren’t divorced.”

83) “Seabiscuit may be the only earthling that was on both sides of the stamp.” - Brendan Kelly

84) “There’s no shame in coming in second, except in, like, wars.” - Family Guy

85) “I feel like I experience writer’s block 100% of the time, and when I do write, I have impostor syndrome.” - Phoebe Bridgers

86) “We teach based on what we most need to learn.” - psychologist on Grey’s Anatomy

87) “Having too many choices is the leading cause of stress” - Grey’s Anatomy

88) “I think we've all gravely underestimated the extent to which this year has changed all of us, permanently” - Kelli Maria Korducki

89)

(via Twitter)

90) “I wonder if people understand why they don’t have polio” - Sandra E. Garcia

91) “Ending songs is terrible, so let’s keep singing” - Dave Hernandez

#covid19 #2020 #star wars #dave chappelle #volatire #ysac #kobe #kobe bryant #ladybird #bukowski #jojo rabbit #aoc #john prine #deadwood #bernie #rbg #notorious rbg #phoebe bridgers

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