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Nós
As a repeated migrant, the distance from Galicia turns at times sour –that esoteric flavour we call morriña, an obstinate melancholy for our culture. But it does vanish when I come across pieces like this visual essay by Pepe Barro about the inception of the Magazine Nós, the principal platform of Galician design in the […]
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Writing as designing
“It is the other arts that taught me writing” was attributed to Stendhal –fictional or not, this rings familiar to me. While I’m not virtuous in English, I think of writing similarly to how I think of design and value (not in any order but in synergy): The form, how richly is formatted and thoughtfully […]
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Dieter
Gary Hustwit has been kind enough to share his movies during this particular context we live in, and I had the opportunity to watch Rams a third time due to a profound respect for Dieter Rams and his legacy in a design culture –the European and Swiss in particular– I grew up in. Perhaps why […]
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Are We Distracted?
In present times, we perceive distraction as an adverse demeanor, an enemy of completeness. Leonardo used it as a natural procedure to comprehend the complexity of the world. Distractions allowed him to create diversely.