Jamie Banks
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Jamie Banks
Conversations with Contributors: Justin Wymer - The Adroit Journal
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Learning how to think with images begins with learning how to see, or perhaps more accurately, learning how to un-see .
Cliff Guren • Learning How to Un-See — Cliff Guren
How to learn writing: immerse in role models.
Visual Art and
“The keyboard is color, the eyes are hammers, and the heart is a piano with several strings. The musician is the hand that plays, feeling one note or another in order to create vibrations in one’s soul.”
Art In Context • Wassily Kandinsky - A Portrait of Kandinsky the Artist
We should let AI force us to get REAL creative and different, not dig our heels in on details of craft competing in its domain.
More precious craft isn’t the way; bolder redesign is.
It harkens back to the early days of the web when people had fewer notions of how websites " should be .”
Maggie Appleton 🧭 • A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
But learning how to think with visual information (not just react to it) requires a different way of seeing, one that enables you to pause the instinctual labeling and stereotyping of the visual images you’re processing and see the individual elements in the image
Cliff Guren • Learning How to Un-See — Cliff Guren
But eventually I stumbled upon a trick: I would draw instead the outline of the negative space around it. Though I couldn't have articulated it at the time, what this method did was improve the quality of my looking. I would never be able to get away from my preconceptions about what an arm or a leg looks like, but the shape formed by its negative
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