Who Be He?
They call him Phillip Retuta. He calls himself a visual & interactive designer, motion graphics artist, and illustrator -- an all-around artist. He's 29 years old, from Chicago, living in NYC, and has a lovely husky-lab mix named Nico. Currently employed as Senior Designer at a digital and social media firm.
What's All This Then?
Well, it's a fairly random tumblog of current and upcoming art endevours, photographs, comic sketches, creative philosophies, inspirations, and generally incomplete art projects.
So yeah, it's like a sketchbook.
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Nico and Lamb Toys. on Flickr.
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Eggs Benedict, Grits, and Bacon. on Flickr.
Doodles. on Flickr.
Highlight of the Day: 2012.03.26: Imagine. on Flickr.
Today I picked up a stylus for my iPad (so I can refine my drawings in Drawsome as well as avoid getting grease on the screen from my pudgy sausage fingers) and this book on creativity by Jonah Lehrer.
I’ve been reading it during my subway commute, and I really like it. It doesn’t tell you how to be creative, but rather explains the psychological and biological/neural science behind how we think. The inventors and innovators described in the book are real, but Lehrer definitely treats them as novelized characters with quirks and personal histories than scientific or academic figures you’d cite in a research paper. It’s also filled with little brain teasers that make you pay attention to every detail and every word.
Overall, the book pretty much summarizes the design process — from idea to research to prototype to finished product — something that was repeatedly hammered into our brains during our masters studies at Parsons The New School For Design.
It’s a fascinating read, and if I were ever to teach design on a collegiate or post-collegiate level, I’d make this required reading.
Dunnies Underneath The Sun. on Flickr.
The Heart-Stopper. on Flickr.
Via Flickr:
All four of us ordered “The Heart-Stopper”: steak, poached egg, hollandaise, bacon, and crispy onion served with fries and a salad (you know, to balance all the cholesterol).
