Another super amazing website from Got Milk? The previous version Get the Glass was also pretty amazing. There is also another version in Spanish called "Toma Leche" that is also worth a look.
The campaigns are also pretty funny, 'White Gold' is ultra cool!
This site supported an exhibition 010101: Art in Technology Times at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art a while ago.
When I was 24 my friend and I wrote ourselves a letter 10 years into the future. In it we talked about how we felt in that moment in time and also what we hoped for the future, our goals and dreams.
As
the years passed our friendship dissipated into a memory but when I turned 34 I received
a letter that had been addressed to my parents place. I didn't open it right away,
even though I felt an excited anticipation and at the same time hesitation for what
the letter might contain.
I needed to wait for the right moment. Two days later I broke open the wax seal and immersed myself in a journey to the past. The interesting thing about the whole experience is not what the letter contained but how I sounded to myself. In ten years I had evolved into quite a different person, I guess it's to be expected, however you never really analyse yourself in that way. It was an insightful experience that I think I might try again.
So what brought on this nostalgic blog entry? This website which I just stumbled upon called Future Me , a site in which you can send an email to yourself into the future. If you're feeling slightly voyaristic check out the public entries, some of them are quite touching.
Ray Bradbury is the author of more than 500 published works—short stories, novels, stage plays, screenplays, TV scripts, poetry. Exploring become his oxygen and the secret of his prolific creativity. Bradbury told Jack Foster that he had read a short story, an essay and a poem every day since childhood.
"If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines and music," Bradbury said, "you will automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry period in my life because I feed myself well." Make an exploration list for your life.
Fill it with readings, films, music. Excerpted from "zing! Five steps and 101 tips for creativity on command" by Sam Harrison, MacHillock Publishing/IPG Distributors.
~Creative Exercise: Feed Your Mind January 23, 2008 by Sam Harrison
I just came across this online gem called ChangeThis. The site contains a plethora of mind stimulating articles that are beautifully presented in PDF files.
Richard Sarson is a graphic artist based in London, his website features some really nice pieces of work. Reminds me of the spirograph that I used to have when I was a child.
I'm totally engrossed in Chip Kidd's 'The Cheese Monkeys' at the moment. Apart from being an extraordinary book designer he is one of the most talented writers that I have ever had the pleasure to read. I savour every word and wish that I had the skill to create such beautiful paragraphs of delicously descriptive tales, not to mention the wry humour which makes me giggle to myself even in a crowded train.
I made the mistake of reading his second novel first, and although they can be read as stand alone, I recommend that you read this one first.
Every designer who reads this will be filled with nostalgia that will take them back to the days when they were training as designers.
Here is great morsel that I just have to share....
"...And that's when I realized things like this had been occurring to me a lot lately. All signage-indeed, any typesetting, color schemes, and printed materials my eyes pounced on were automatically dissected and heald to Draconian standards of graphic worthiness. It was all I could do to keep from grabbing the station attendant by the shoulders and shaking her into sense, screaming, "None of it's CONSISTENT! Don't you understand?! Somebody DO SOMETHING!!"
There is another really funny section in which he describes ideas as 'whores' which is absolutely hilarious, but I'll leave that one to those who read the book.
Interesting insight into portion sizes and how they have increased over time. That explains the high rates of obesity in western society.
