Milton Glaser: How great design makes ideas new

[Joshbuckler]

He said "Incidentally I've never understood the conflict between abstraction and naturalism. Since all paintings are inherently abstract to begin with, there doesn't really seem to be an argument there. On another subject . . . "

[embeuu]

graphic ideas unfold. kinda lame...

[VideoMikael]

Seeing his process on creating an image for that quote is fantastic.

[VideoMikael]

... and it's good to see that dead ends and struggle happens even to the best.

[leeroynaggins]

Wow, didn't know Gene Simmons was so into design...

[liquidminds]

I wonder when people who haven't even spent one second of their life to think about what art and design is, are going to stop mocking videos, that don't fit into their limited view of the world.

this is a video about design. If you are a designer, you realize the great ideas he presents. If your just a consumer, you wont.

Mocking a video like this only shows how stupid most people are.

If you're not interested, don't watch it. If it wastes your time, don't waste more posting a comment!

[halfthishalfthat]

Self-indulgent.

[colingareth]

He overlooks or ignores the message of Pope's poem and just plays with two words therein.........was looking for more.

"Reliable Dutchman" is interesting; since the nationality is incontrovertible the adjective assumes a similar authority and truthfulness.

[Clausfarre]

So he mucked about with a boring painting. Big whoop.

The art world feeds off bullshit.

[wetyewruyrtsutrdhjfg]

@Clausfarre

Not entirely bullshit. It takes a few seconds to look at a painting or a drawing, then you move on.

But it takes days to think up an idea that will make the average guy look at the drawing once and do a double take.

I'll agree that there's some bullshit involved. Some people refuse to learn the hard stuff. For instance, perspective or anatomy. What do they do? They slap a few dashes of paint on a canvas and call it art.. You can consider those guys top notch bullshitters.

[xXBeach]

@Clausfarre just a bit eh?agree

[Riverdale270]

Learn to do a damn presentation or to speak to an audience before doing this kind of crap... Horrible. Make this idiot come down from his ivory tower before speaking to an audience...

[alcidesflores79]

this guy is an idiot, its had to think that idiocy is highly regarded

[GrimSoul66]

This guy could really put a guy to sleep just after the guy woke up and had a coffee..

[Indrius]

art is mostly bullshit

[Dilliboy63]

neat distinctions of the thing itself (hat), the shadow of the thing, and the word of the thing

[millamulisha]

this seems so dry and even scripted... as though he had planned out his jokes in advance... even though he tries to make it seem very natural, seems robotic. I don't like the pictures.

[florencelovme]

I think the word Dutchman is associated more with the term Flying Dutchman (Glorified footballer/soccer player). So the mind correlates a glorified term word with something that gives out a positive message - a reliable man who works/owns this garage. Its amazing and very tricky the way the subconscious mind works when it comes to "decoding" signs/symbools/expressions.

His observation is valid too. Great professor, great Lecture, well Done. Thank you.

[skinnyjohnsen]

@florencelovme When I hear "Flying Dutchman" I think of the ghost ship portrayed in the Wagner opera. In German it is called "Das fligende Hollender". A mighty, although not easy on your ear, piece of work.

[yared94]

This guy is a genius.

[GeneralFanatic]

art, is whatever remains... I really liked that one...

[82816a1]

cool

[BlacksAreBeautiful]

@DrInfidel

I thought they were one in the same.

[junka22]

Wow, cool talk. Did you know that this is the guy behind the rather legendary "I ♥ NY" logo?

[doupz0r]

@DrInfidel The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

[xenniex2]

@doupz0r that's what i call bullshit. Not every genius has acces to succes, even if they try really hard.

So maybe you should stop copy pasting random quotes and actually think about them first ...

[JonathanWKnight]

@doupz0r got to be careful, cause real-genius's fail by getting randomly hit by cars as well........

[rastafaril]

@doupz0r then what is success measured by?

[5233484]

"art is what remains"

genius!

[SagaWrath]

I hope this guy checks into see if he has Alzheimer and why is this so blurry.

[BaileysBeads]

How ironical to say that twice.

[DemonmachinE]

@BaileysBeads He didn't say it twice... it's just displaying twice because of Youtube's fail new system.

[runutsutube]

@SagaWrath blur could be explained by the fact that this takes place in 1998... vhs, rings any bell ?

[SagaWrath]

I hope this guy checks into see if he has Alzheimer and why is this so blurry.