I mentioned the Illuminations book before, but I’m just too lazy to write about, so here are some doodles from my sketchbook:
WATERCOLOR!
Making good on my New Year’s resolution.
Last week Meg came home from the store with a watercolor set and announced that she was going to teach me to watercolor. Last night she made good on her promise…
Color is still a foreign world to me — working with it makes me feel very young and naive, like crayons and butcher paper and grandma’s kitchen floor in the farmhouse…
COMICS & INFORMATION DESIGN, PT. 1: A TWO-WAY STREET?
A few days ago, I got finished with a grad school Statement of Intent that basically outlined a plan to study the relationship between comics and (information) design. Since there are no coincidences in life, two days later, somebody on Drawn! made a post, “Comics and Information Design.” That post was a brief mention of how Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics is widely used in the information and interaction design communities. (Proof: it’s on Edward Tufte’s Analytical Design reading list.)
What interests me is not the one-way relationship of comics informing information design, but the two-way relationship of comics informating info design, and info design informing comics. In other words, the way comics and information design can inform each other.
Essentially, I see comics and information design attempting the same feat: one brain showing something to another brain.
I’m not quite ready to get into the nitty-gritty just yet, but here’s a mind-map I did on the subject:
ESPRESSO + LIBRARYTHING
Trying my best to copy Don, I bought an espresso machine and started playing around with LibraryThing. It’s my day off, so I’m going to spend it on caffeine, reading like a madman, and blogging like crazy to make up for the severe lack of posts lately. Stay tuned.
As for the reading: In addition to being a National Book Award nominee, Gene Yang did his master’s thesis on comics and education. Dover Thrift has some really cheap, really amazing art books. Joann Sfar is one of the best men in comics, period. McCarthy’s new book is dark, depressing, and beautiful — like his last one, I think it’s basically a pulp novel, begging to be made into a movie. Saul Steinberg is January’s greatest (re)discovery. Arnheim’s book is on Tufte’s reading list, so I’m down.
BEWARE THE WATER HAMMER
A little clip from my sumi-e doodles.
It’s finally cold now, so the pipes in our apartment are knocking like crazy. Nothing like facing the snow with little sleep to bring out the grouch in you.
Just starting to work again, so not much to post. Really, really, really getting into Saul Steinberg. Thank goodness for the Complete New Yorker set. Listening to lots of Cee-Lo, Gnarls Barkley, and Dangerdoom. Also, making my way through Doom 2. (Lots of doom to match the gloom…)
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