Texture is the surface appearance of a cloth - rough, smooth, fine, knobbly, etc.
— ABC of Men’s Fashion, Hardy Ameis
Vivian Maier photographed her whole life, without showing her pictures to anyone. Her photographs were found purely by chance in a box at a garage sale. Now, with roughly 90% of her archive reconstructed, Vivian’s work is part of a renaissance in interest in the art of Street Photography.
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Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people. Unfortunately, that’s too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.
Steve Jobs in a 1995 Wired interview
(via evrtstudio)
