dannymerlin asked:
Hello Jeff, how do you know when something is good?
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booooooom answered:
I think if you spend a lot of time looking at work you can start to tell whether someone is successfully doing the thing they are attempting to do. You can recognize when someone’s style is cohesive and consistent. It becomes very much like a language.
I think with design it’s easier to say whether something is good design or bad design as it’s essentially about problem solving (I believe art is about problem-making). If the wheels on my bicycle are square, and don’t spin, then my bicycle is useless. That’s bad design, however you could however argue that the same bicycle is good art.
If you’re asking with regards to what appears on Booooooom, it’s not so much a question of whether something is good or not good. It’s more about whether I feel like it fits with the other work I’m curating for the site. It’s like making a mix tape. If the theme of my mix tape is “90s west coast rap” I’m not gonna put a Wu-Tang song on it. By not including Wu-Tang I’m not saying they aren’t good, it just doesn’t fit with the theme of that particular mix.
Virtue alone is real, everything else a mere jest. Ability and greatness must be measured by virtue, not by good fortune. It alone is self-sufficient. Whilst someone is alive, it makes them worthy of love; when dead, of being remembered.
Baltasar Gracián, The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence
Friday Final Lines | Every Friday, we offer the closing lines of a Penguin Classic to finish up the workweek.
(via classicpenguin)
at it again with the ‘cautious optimism’ (ch. 01, p. 01 - 03.)
My work for a Doomsday zine that is coming out shortly, put together by John Malta and Siobhán Gallagher
I did some visual development for Nickelodeon, few years ago on a cool sci-fi project. Here is a rough selection of the concepts I’ve done.
