Milton Glaser: How great design makes ideas new

http://www.ted.com From the TED archives: The legendary graphic designer Milton Glaser dives deep into a new painting inspired by Piero della Francesca. From here, he muses on what makes a convincing poster, by breaking down an idea and making it new.

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[doupz0r]

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

[DemonmachinE]

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

[rastafaril]

@doupz0r then what is success measured by?

[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...

[xXBeach]

@Clausfarre just a bit eh?agree

[VideoMikael]

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

[VideoMikael]

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

[leeroynaggins]

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

[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.