(or: “Eric’s attempt to string together some disparate and abstract ideas that will hope-fully cohere into something by the time 30 minutes are up. If not, well, good thing we have time for a Q&A afterwards.”)

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Graphic Design:Surface Articulation Visual Communication

Graphic Design:Surface ArticulationVisual CommunicationArchitecture:Shaping SpaceSensory Experience

“As designers, we have been taught to love the object, love the completed-ness of the finished masterpiece. But because we have paid so much atten-tion to the outsides of things, we have forgotten the insides.” -Natalia Ilyin, Chasing the Perfect (2006)

“We worked hard and did some decent studio work, but what really mattered is that we knew when to blow it all off. To fuck off and experience life—because life is where all the good ideas come from anyway.”

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“Usually there is a hostile reaction to a conception of art that connects it with the activites of a live creature in its environment. The hostility to association of fine art with normal processes of living is a pathetic, even tragic, commentary on life as it is ordinarily lived.” -John Dewey, Art and Experience (1934)

Yes.

Yes. (For now.)

YESART NO

YES ARTNO

YESART NO

YESART NO

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Communication Experience/

Communication Experience=

(power off)

“We create devices that distract people from thinking, from working through the fear that accompanies real thinking, from coming out the other side. We help to make people believe they can’t live without move-ment, communication, distraction. We teach them the exact opposite of truth.” -Natalia Ilyin

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I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry.

We need not fear these

silences,— We may love them.

I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry.

We need not fear these

silences,— We may love them. -John Cage

(Thanks.)