The conversation thing

Don’t know if you’re familiar with the John Maeda’s laws of simplicity, but www.phillipsdepury.com is sooooo illustrating these laws.

James Hopkins at Max Wigram Gallery, 99 New Bond Street, London

As a curiousity, did you know the image of Uncle Sam has its 194th birthday today ?

Happy birthday!

I love the look of the site even though i did not understood the landing page: it was in portugese, has a version in english also, but by the time I got to the english page I was even more confused about the toilet in the logo …

Now WC stands for Wind Catchers, but also for toilet so the artist had a bright idea : why not place the damn toilet in the logo so noone will make bad jokes on it

Daring and well done!

Anyone knows other examples of plain self-irony logos? That kind of list would be interesting to see

Last night I had to do some order in my lost lost lost pile of art sketches and courses from university. The “unimportant ones” as the important ones are very well classified :).

Point is, I’ve come to a serious dillema. What does someone do with sketches and paper half drawn or disaster works , most of them done in highschool and university? I mean, I know they are just sketches or derailed works, but, some of them can be rescued, plus it’s my own mind and hand there.

On one hand it’s a lot of paper that takes A LOT of space and who knows who will ever take them into consideration (let’s hope I’ll turn out to be the new millenium genius and those horrible sketches will be regarded as pure gold) on the other hand, how can someone throw away these?

My question to you is: Is an art sketch equal to a simple paper where you make some notes and when you do the final work, they are to be thrown away?

What do you do with works like these?

Later edit: I’d have to admit they look sooo much better on screen than in real life…. Now that might mean that either I underestimate them a little, or photography compliments art …. hmm, still have my dillema …

a little old, but good to be kept on file