This document discusses the relationship between graphic design, visual communication, architecture, and art. It explores how designers have focused on outward appearances rather than inner meanings. Several quotes are provided that discuss experiencing life to find good ideas, connecting art with living, and how technology can distract from real thinking. The document suggests we should not fear silence but can love them instead.

3. (or: “Eric’s attempt to string
together some disparate and
abstract ideas that will hope-
fully cohere into something
by the time 30 minutes are up.
If not, well, good thing we have
time for a Q&A afterwards.”)

7. 1

8. Graphic Design:
Surface Articulation
Visual Communication

9. Graphic Design:
Surface Articulation
Visual Communication
Architecture:
Shaping Space
Sensory Experience

15. “As designers, we have been taught to
love the object, love the completed-
ness of the finished masterpiece. But
because we have paid so much atten-
tion to the outsides of things, we have
forgotten the insides.” -Natalia Ilyin,
Chasing the Perfect (2006)

19. “We worked hard and did some
decent studio work, but what
really mattered is that we
knew when to blow it all off.
To fuck off and experience life—
because life is where all the
good ideas come from anyway.”

25. 2

29. “Usually there is a hostile reaction to a
conception of art that connects it
with the activites of a live creature in
its environment. The hostility to
association of fine art with normal
processes of living is a pathetic,
even tragic, commentary on life as it
is ordinarily lived.” -John Dewey,
Art and Experience (1934)

30. Yes.

31. Yes. (For now.)

41. ART YES
ART
NO
YES
NO
ART YES
NO
YES
NO ART

48. 3

63. 4

65. Communication / Experience

66. Communication = Experience

72. (power off)

74. “We create devices that distract
people from thinking, from working
through the fear that accompanies
real thinking, from coming out the
other side. We help to make people
believe they can’t live without move-
ment, communication, distraction.
We teach them the exact opposite
of truth.” -Natalia Ilyin

79. ˆ
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81. I have nothing to say and I am
saying it and that is poetry.
We need not fear these
silences,—
We may love them.
-John Cage

83. (Thanks.)