Have you read my piece in the [All in One] catalogue?

I did. I was especially intrigued by your aphorisms, which you end your essay with. Could you tell me a bit about those?People call me an illustrator, but I have been only occasionally an illustrator. In France or Germany I’m known as a writer and as a drawer. These aphorisms are my specialty. ( Read more... )

WAREWell, I was in art school at a time when it was very, very difficult to make an image that said what it meant. My aim was to be as direct in my art as one would be telling a story to a friend. But whenever some sort of genuine humanity or feeling crept into the embryonic art some of us were trying to make, it was almost always labeled as ( Read more... )

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In The Snow Leopard you write: “In the snow mountains . . . I feel open, clear, and childlike once again. I am bathed by feelings.” Then: “Simultaneously I am myself, the child I was, the old man I will be.” There are these explosions of transcendent feeling.

MATTHIESSENOr altered realities, perhaps, induced by altitude and exhaustion ( Read more... )

There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair. I hope, sirs, you can understand our legitimate and unavoidable impatience. You express a great deal of anxiety over our willingness to break laws. This is certainly a legitimate concern. Since we so diligently urge people ( Read more... )

If you could give one piece of advice to another designer starting out, what would it be?
Are you familiar with Ira Glass from This American Life?

Yes.I wrote about this a while ago on the Iso50 blog. Ira has a video that is the best thing I’ve ever heard in terms of advice for people starting out. It boils down to him saying that you have to do a ( Read more... )

A Little Film About... Jean Jullien from Handsome Frank on Vimeo.

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Friends in High Places from www.KORDUROY.tv on Vimeo.

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