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“Graphic design is the fiction that anticipates the fact.”

Book:Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design

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This book delves into the principles and practices of design through a series of short essays, each focusing on a different aspect of the field. more

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Michael Bierut

Michael Bierut, born in 1957, is an accomplished graphic designer from the United States. His work spans a wide range of fields, from brand identity to book design, and is renowned for its unique style and creativity. more

“I don't believe in doing thousands of cuts, then giving it to the editor to make the movie. 'Dump-truck directing' is my reference to that style of moviemaking. You have to know how to cut before you can shoot well. The lack of definition in movies today is appalling. Very few people know how to mount a narrative anymore. If a scene works in one cut, you don't need 10. Or it might need 10. Let's not make it 20.”

People Ifs Knows Needs Giving Believe Wells Might Today Know How Cutting Style Scene Don't Believe Definitions Narrative Editors Truck Dump

Author:Gordon Willis

“Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its imposition.”

Seems Loss Threat Checks Tolerate Commodity Availability Imposition

Book:Fado

Source: Fado

“This modernizing experiment seems to have something diabolic about it. Everything that was becomes rejected in the name of a modernity that assumes the nature of a fiction, an illusion, a devilish apparition. To a greater or lesser extent this applies to all the postcommunist countries.”

Country Seems Names Fiction Greater Illusion Assuming Experiments Rejected Modernity Apparitions Devilish

Book:Fado

Source: Fado

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