This is clever. From Jesse Wright via sharesomecandy
Archive for June, 2009
trust me
June 12, 2009art and maps (7) the world from above
June 10, 2009
Here are some beautiful paintings by a 6th grade class from Germany: “the world viewed from an aeroplane”
on sippel.de via kunstlinks.de
why do we need media to communicate?
June 10, 2009 
I also like this simple explanation. I would like to put that in my PhD thesis, instead of some complex definition! It seems to come from Scott McCloud, whose book “Unterstanding Comics” is on my shopping list.
via Austin Kleon, from his post on “our sad inablity to communicate mind to mind”.
is it art or communication?
June 10, 2009
Illustration: COMICS & INFORMATION DESIGN, BUT IS IT ART? by Austin Kleon and much more interesting stuff on his website.
It is apparently based on this quote:
“What is art not? Well, as I’ve described it, Art is not about communication. Art is not a way of conveying information. It’s a way of understanding information. That is, creating a work of art is a means we have of making sense of the world, focusing to make it clearer, not a way of communicating some understanding of the world that we already hold. If you already hold a clear understanding of whatever then there’s no reason to create the work of art. So you don’t. In fact, you can’t. If you are trying to demonstrate some fact pictorially this is called illustration. Illustration is superficial, no matter how skilled, because it is secondary. The idea comes first and the illustration explicates it.”
James Kochalka, “The Horrible Truth About Comics,” in The Cute Manifesto
word and image 