Designer-in-Residence @ Cranbrook Academy of Art. Head of the Graduate Graphic Design Department. Working at the intersection of Design & Contemporary Art
Outside of Detroit
Joined March 2009
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Typography has an antiseptic problem. Typography gets trapped inside a perfection mechanism. Even strange letterforms can be perfectly clean. Their outlines tell us nothing about weight, friction, contact, or age.
#typography #graphicdesign #design #art #type #typedesign
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Revulsion marketing begins with a simple mechanism: disgust commands attention. Attention signals daring. Institutional approval converts daring into distinction, distinction into prestige, and prestige into cultural capital—then money and power. #Art #ArtCriticism #ArtTheory
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The standard definition of good graphic design is “to communicate effectively.” Wrong. The correct answer is: "make shit look good." The phrase sounds crude and reductive, but it is an example of epistemic compression.
#GraphicDesign #GraphicDesigner #VisualCommunication
You’re 25. Why does creative freedom feel like a prison? You didn’t want to spend your life at a desk in a faceless corporation, so you opted out. Now you’re free, but your choices feel meaningless. #Art #Artist #Design #GraphicDesign #Creativity
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Avant-garde typography often uses illegibility as a sign of resistance. Historically, avant-garde movements paired radical new forms with the ambition to build a new social order. #GraphicDesign #Typography
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You've Already Sold Out (And Don't Even Know It) #shorts#CreativeLife #SocialMedia #AttentionEconomy
With an acoustic guitar, there's no hiding if you can play. The commitment and work are evident. Even in 'bad' work, the artist's effort shines through. Authenticity can't be faked. #Authenticity #Skill #Dedication
Academic circles push for 'bad work,' a destructive outcome of postmodern relativism. This intellectual 'brain rot' can destroy artists and their thinking capacity. #ArtEducation #Postmodernism
Duchamp became a librarian to freely paint what he wanted, unbound by market demands. When challenged about his father's support, he coolly admitted it, clarifying it was enough, not luxury. #ArtInsights #Duchamp
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An Unpopular Topic - Unpopular Mythos in Art & Design #MusicInsights #Songwriting #ArtistLife #CreativeProcess #MusicIndustry #ReelsMusic #design
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The Breakfast Club shows the fixed social order of adolescence. Artist vs athlete. A profound irony when artists gain power. #TheBreakfastClub #ComingOfAge #SocialPyramid #ArtistLife #Adolescence #FilmAnalysis #MovieClips
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Why spend time on quick studies? To think through the ramifications of form as we push and pull on it. We're pushing and pulling on ways of seeing the world, value systems, ideology, and politics. #ArtTechnique #PaintingTips
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JWhen Johnny smokes and flicks ashes on camera he's refusing to play the polite movie star. it's Inecessary artistic violence. #MovieStar #SocialConventions #Art #Real
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Choose a path: craft by hand with clay or sculpt digitally with 3D modeling. Hand-based or NURBS or polygonal - A workflow. #3DModeling #Sculpting
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Was your Art History Professor a "D-Bag?" (Mine was not) #ArtHistory #Turner #AbstractArt #ArtisticEvolution #Cognition #Painting #ReelsArt
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Tracing the internet's impact on abstraction in art. #ArtEvolution #AdventureTime #AbstractArt #InternetArt #ArtReels #PaintingTransformation
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See the drips and unevenness? That's what happens when you *don't* use a lathe. A turntable gives you a perfectly smooth, auto-shop finish. #DIY #Woodworking #design #art #craft
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Instead of asking "What is art?" ask "What kind of concept is art?" This unlocks the expansionist nature of art as a category of human experience, making diverse works legitimate. #ArtTheory #Philosophy
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