Michael Bierut is a graphic designer and partner at Pentagram. He worked on the redesign of The Atlantic.
Here’s a great video where he talks about his creative process that I found on The Design Observer. I thought this quote was particularly poignant:
“I don’t consider myself creative. I don’t have ideas that I want to...
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"Cabo Cruzin'" ©David A. Ziser This image is from a destination wedding I photographed in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico a few years ago. We had an opportunity to capture some photographs around the resort before the wedding ceremony was ...
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“The reality is that it’s easier to be inspired than it is to create an original idea and we are hardwired to take the path of least resistance. It’s easier to jump onto a design inspiration gallery site than it is to sit down with a blank sheet of paper and a pencil. It’s...
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"Captured Blue" ©David A. Ziser Here is an image I made while walking through the Boston airport a few weeks ago. I love the image as a visual exercise in “seeing”. The strong single vivid blue color offset with the hi...
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"Indiana Abstract" ©David A. Ziser This image is from one of my "drive by" shootings I made on the way home on Saturday as we passed the wind farm I mention below. I like how the partial view of the wind turbine in...
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Good Morning Everybody, We made it back home safe and sound on Saturday at about 5:00 p.m. unpacked the bags. grilled dinner with a part of LaDawn’s family and just took it easy over the rest of the weekend. I hope...
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"Storm Clearing Over Jordan Pond" ©David A. Ziser I've been wanting to post this image for about a week. It is just about my favorite image from our trip to Maine a couple of weeks ago. We had walked about half way around...
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"Turnpike Arabesque" ©David A. Ziser Here is one of the images I captured during our PhotoWalk on Saturday. Well, the original image was made on Saturday ;~) As we were about to cross the bridge into Kentucky, we had to p...
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Good Morning Everybody, Over 33,000 photo amateurs, pros, enthusiasts walked the earth on Saturday just having fun taking photographs and enjoying each other's company during Scott Kelby's Worldwide Photo Walk 2010. Old friends re-united and new frien...
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Tags: composition, Creativity, Lightroom, Lightroom 2.0, Lightroom 3.0, Photo Editing, Photography, Photowalks
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"Five Hundred Boylston" ©David A. Ziser What a cool building – and when I hit it with the Sigma 8-16mm wide angle lens – super WOW! Maybe it’s all the fine detail throughout this image that makes it work for me. I wa...
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