Still Life with Stone and Car, Jimmie Durham
“I have the idea that there’s something about visual art - that is, the intellectual part of visual art - that is away from language, and that its value is that it’s away from language. It’s a knowledge that is not connected to language. When I have some [...]
Category Archives: LEARNING
JIMMIE DURHAM KNOWS WHAT’S GOING ON
January 15, 2010 –
DESIGN THINKING
December 11, 2009 –
Although Design is most often used to describe an object or end result, Design in its most effective form is a process, an action, a verb not a noun. A protocol for solving problems and discovering new opportunities. Techniques and tools differ and their effectiveness are arguable but the core of the process stays the [...]
LIVING OPENLY
October 31, 2009 –
1. DEVELOP CORE VALUES
2. DEVELOP INTERESTS
3. SET GOALS
4. PLAN
5. FORGET YOUR PLANS
Artistic Branding
June 21, 2009 –
A brand is a promise between you and your audience.
1. Take three products you love and try to figure out their brand
2. Take three products you despise and figure out their brand
3. Then take a step back and try to figure out what promises you would be comfortable making to your target audience.
Those promises are [...]
Looking Towards the Future
June 20, 2009 –
Are your image and brand consistent? Are all of your contacts with your customers in alignment to what you believe?
When making a choice between two options, only consider what’s going to happen in the future, not which investments you’ve made in the past. The past investments are over, lost, gone forever. They are irrelevant to [...]
Small Business Success
June 18, 2009 –
Three things you need:
1) the ability to abandon a plan when it doesn’t work,
2) the confidence to do the right thing even when it costs you money in the short run, and
3) enough belief in other people that you don’t try to do everything yourself.
From Stand Up Comedy
June 17, 2009 –
Stand Up Comedy is a small shop in Portland that carries a lot of top notch fashion, below are their operational guidelines:
Stay within XXX budget. Have a memorizable inventory. Don’t add anything fixed to the space that doesn’t already exist in some form, only take away. Do not stock anything that can already be found [...]
Notes from Jackie Battenfields Artist’s Guide Lecture
May 19, 2009 –
Jackie Battenfield has a new book out right now, it’s called the Artist Guide: How to Make Money Doing What You Love. She gave a great lecture at the Art Institute yesterday and Martine and I were part of a roundtable discussion on being an artist and businessperson that happened that happened after the [...]
