NICK NG

"Don’t have a favorite font. Do have a favorite type designer."

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:02:47 -0500

“Don’t have a favorite font. Do have a favorite type designer.”

- Jessica Hische, Upping Your Type Game

Just an awesome hot dog joint to make your stomach happy…

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:44:48 -0500

Just an awesome hot dog joint to make your stomach happy…

visualgraphic: Daft Punk Tribute

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:51:51 -0500

visualgraphic:

Daft Punk Tribute

So awesome. visualgraphic: Random Access Memories

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:00:35 -0500

So awesome.

visualgraphic:

Random Access Memories

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Fri, 17 May 2013 11:25:05 -0500

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Fri, 17 May 2013 11:22:51 -0500

"A lot of Chinese people look up to the West as an ideal, so the construction of these towns could be..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:46:00 -0500

“A lot of Chinese people look up to the West as an ideal, so the construction of these towns could be seen as a way of accelerating their progress; a quick way of achieving through emulation.”

- Why is China Stealing Cities, Towns, and Buildings?

design thoughthouse: good design, bad cause

Tue, 14 May 2013 09:36:10 -0500

design thoughthouse: good design, bad cause:

livefrombklyn:

still, maybe it seems super-benign to use good graphic design for the lotto, so let me blow this way out of proportion. imagine you’re at the latest AIGA event talking to this hip young designer who says to you, “yeah, i know it’s the nazi party, but man, they’re giving me such creative control and i’m gonna use what they’re paying me to fund my projects that really matter…”

"Some argue that students have much to gain by going through the formative years of college, but I..."

Wed, 08 May 2013 09:30:00 -0500

“Some argue that students have much to gain by going through the formative years of college, but I say if they’re intent on higher education, then let them study subjects such as theoretical physics or mathematics or history, which are better suited to these settings. Don’t waste their four years studying something that is better taught outside of a university.”

- Eugene Chung, Universities Should Be Investors, Students Should Be Startups

After dark comes light

Tue, 07 May 2013 16:29:49 -0500

After dark comes light

design thoughthouse: graphic design is a language

Wed, 01 May 2013 12:18:00 -0500

design thoughthouse: graphic design is a language:

livefrombklyn:

recently a friend confessed to me that he was kinda tired of graphic design. it had gotten old to him. and i get what he means. he was tired of graphic design about graphic design. it seems to me that graphic design as an industry has a tendency to be self-referencing more than most industries, except for the art scene. if we think of design as a language and compare that to the english language, it would be like using english only to talk about the english language, or to put it another way, perpetual grammar class. that does get boring, fast.

"Places on the web for sharing content and ideas often remind me of real life interactions. Facebook..."

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:48:00 -0500

“Places on the web for sharing content and ideas often remind me of real life interactions. Facebook is the everlasting high school reunion. Twitter, which I love, is maybe half cocktail party, half party-line. Flickr & Instagram can be the best way to send a postcard, while LinkedIn is the best way to send a fax ;) To me, there’s something sacred about reading a blog post on someone else’s site. It’s like visiting a friend’s house for a quick meal ‘round the breakfast table. It’s personal— you’re in their space, and the environment is uniquely suited for idea exchange and uninterrupted conversation. In many ways, we should be treating our blogs like our breakfast tables. Be welcoming & gracious when you host, and kind & respectful when visiting.”

- Trent Walton, Ideas of March

visualgraphic: Tea Time!

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 01:20:25 -0500

visualgraphic:

Tea Time!

A glorious evening to ride through the streets aimlessly.

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 21:05:03 -0500

A glorious evening to ride through the streets aimlessly.

"Artists are trying to communicate truths about reality as they see it. They are saying, “This is..."

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:35:17 -0500

“Artists are trying to communicate truths about reality as they see it. They are saying, “This is true, or this is beautiful, or this is good.” The great conversation of human history is a debate over the definition of these terms. Some Christians today disagree with people who are trying to answer these questions with art, but instead of joining the discussion, they decide to throw art itself out the window, or they define art so narrowly as to truncate its value. But if we limit our minds, hearts, and voices to propositional argumentation only, we risk creating a deafening silence where there ought to be loud praise to God.”

- Geoff Stevens, Should We Care About Art?

"Whenever I leave you I feel a powerful and wonderfully terrible series of emotions. They begin at..."

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:31:21 -0500

“Whenever I leave you I feel a powerful and wonderfully terrible series of emotions. They begin at the airport as the plane gathers speed, rumbling down the runway. Perhaps it is triggered by the city passing in the distance, but there is an emptiness inside me, a true aching of the heart. It is a longing and a dull sorrow for leaving behind that which I love. I fly off into a vague and fatalistic unknown (at this point I am never conscious of my true destination). It is an unreal eternity. It is as if I were in a spaceship destined for an unknown star, it must be a little like dying.”

- George to Anita; Anya Yurchyshyn, How I Met My Dead Parents

"Applying for jobs can make you feel old, especially in the tech world. No one cares about your..."

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:59:00 -0500

“Applying for jobs can make you feel old, especially in the tech world. No one cares about your resume anymore. Hardly anyone asks where you went to college. And where years ago you would have proudly touted this or that achievement, these days the bigger question is what you’re working on right now, outside of work. The one thing people really want to see? What you’ve built.”

- Ximena Vengoechea, Side Projects are the New Resume

"Anyway, the point isn’t to talk about myself but rather to say, life is a cumulative game,..."

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:13:46 -0500

“Anyway, the point isn’t to talk about myself but rather to say, life is a cumulative game, where one experience leads to the next. Keep pushing yourself. Don’t settle for a ‘meh’ job. Be willing to jump up on the table and say “we can do better.” Because the only thing I know for sure is that the best way to become an overnight success is realize it takes thousands of overnights.”

- Hunter Walk, How I Became An Overnight Success (Spoiler: Took 10,000+ Overnights)

"The second good back-seat conversation I had was here in the Washington, D.C. area. It was with an..."

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:48:06 -0500

“The second good back-seat conversation I had was here in the Washington, D.C. area. It was with an Ethiopian who had been in the United States for eight years and was every bit as dismayed by this country as he was enamored. At the time, the Sandy Hook school shooting was a big topic of conversation, but I don’t think I encountered anyone on my trip so upset by it as my driver. There was certainly plenty of killing in Ethiopia, he told me, but it could always be traced back to specific issues. The idea of killing simply for the sake of killing — shooting people with whom you had no quarrel whatsoever — was something he could not even begin to wrap his head around. I assured him that he wasn’t missing anything — that natively born Americans were no closer to understanding it than he was. The only difference was that we were growing accustomed to it.”

- Christian Cantrell, Need Some Perspective? Ask a Taxi Driver

"Sometimes when I was started on a new story and I could not get going, I would sit in front of the..."

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:31:57 -0500

“Sometimes when I was started on a new story and I could not get going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, “Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.””

- Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

NICK NG

"Don’t have a favorite font. Do have a favorite type designer."

Just an awesome hot dog joint to make your stomach happy…

visualgraphic: Daft Punk Tribute

So awesome. visualgraphic: Random Access Memories

Photo

Photo

"A lot of Chinese people look up to the West as an ideal, so the construction of these towns could be..."

design thoughthouse: good design, bad cause

"Some argue that students have much to gain by going through the formative years of college, but I..."

After dark comes light

design thoughthouse: graphic design is a language

"Places on the web for sharing content and ideas often remind me of real life interactions. Facebook..."

visualgraphic: Tea Time!

A glorious evening to ride through the streets aimlessly.

"Artists are trying to communicate truths about reality as they see it. They are saying, “This is..."

"Whenever I leave you I feel a powerful and wonderfully terrible series of emotions. They begin at..."

"Applying for jobs can make you feel old, especially in the tech world. No one cares about your..."

"Anyway, the point isn’t to talk about myself but rather to say, life is a cumulative game,..."

"The second good back-seat conversation I had was here in the Washington, D.C. area. It was with an..."

"Sometimes when I was star­ted on a new story and I could not get going, I would sit in front of the..."

"Sometimes when I was started on a new story and I could not get going, I would sit in front of the..."