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Cognition

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Michael Johnson

Invention is slow.

Posted on 2/28/13

By now you’ve probably seen Noah Stokes tweet assailing responsive web design’s command over aesthetic:

All Systems Are Go!(ing to Come Apart)

Posted on 11/15/12

Bless her soul, Bessie stunk at jigsaw puzzles. She seemed less interested in recreating the dissected bucolic scene she’d purchased at Rose’s pharmacy decades ago than she was in hurriedly rearranging and redefining the jumbled mess splashed onto the modest kitchen table in front of her. There was no right way, just her way—and the multiple arrangements that lay ahead were every bit as valid to her as the ordered state its designer printed on the box. She just can’t see well, I figured. I never asked.

Thank you, Hillman Curtis.

Posted on 4/26/12

When I learned of Hillman Curtis’ passing last week I tried to impart to someone unfamiliar with his work why, having never met him, he meant so much to my development as a designer and (former) animator. He taught me how to respect the audience, I told her. He taught me how to justify, how to edit.