If you’re like me, you like finding these bite sized vignettes of inspiration around the web. Here’s a nice interview with a very unpretentious Deanna, on her work / tangentially on her involvement with Dell.

“When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”

Buckminster Fuller

Where do designers go after they leave Apple? This Businessweek article from 2007 tracked the experience of a few notable Apple employees after they left the company. Recent headlines regarding the health of Steve Jobs again bring to mind questions on the success of a Job-less Apple.

“The design team behind Apple’s great products and experiences is basically the same one that created all the merely average designs under John Sculley and Gil Amelio. After the board of Apple fired Steve Jobs in 1985, neither John Sculley nor Jean-Louis Gassee showed the same passion for design. Ultimately, they left it to cultureless middle management. As design is one of the most honest emotional and visual indicators of the state of a company or a brand, the following ‘dire years’ of design at Apple actually were the logical result of bad leadership.”

My alma mater, the MFA Designer as Author program at SVA, invites you to the new SVA Visual Arts Theater for the first annual Thesis Forum, April 22, 2009. During this innovative daylong event MFAD thesis students will present their products on one of SVA’s new stages. Designers, industry leaders and the public are welcome.

Moderated by guest hosts, Milton Glaser, Scott Stowell, Brian Collins, and Allan Chochinov, the day will be divided into three sessions that will showcase the variety and creativity of the Class of 2009. Under the glare of stage lights, MFAD candidates will pitch their wares, show their applications and field questions from the audience.

To find out more information or to RSVP, visit the Thesis website.

Snapshots of this publication called “Typographic Mansony” - I think from Japan - comes via Contemporary Graphic Design from the Netherlands.

Be sure to check out the work from the boys at this British studio.

“I want to assassinate painting,”; Joan Miró is reported to have said, in 1927. Four years later, the Catalan modern master elaborated, in an interview: “I intend to destroy, destroy everything that exists in painting. I have utter contempt for painting.” (He is quoted, along similar lines, as having put the Cubists on notice: “I will break their guitar.”) Read More…