Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Life and Design
A Self Help, Biography Memoir, Philosophy book. There comes a point when you realize that these things, these brands, aren't "enough." Having more or better...
In "Look Both Ways," respected branding consultant and design community leader Debbie Millman has constructed a series of essays that examine the close relationship between design and everyday life. You'll find inspiration on every page as you meander through illuminating observations that are both personal and universal. Each beautifully illustrated essay reveals the magic - and wonder - of the often unseen world around us.Excerpt from "Look Both Ways""It occurred to me, as I stood there, that I could simultaneously, vividly look both ways - backward and forward, in time - at once. I remembered longing to know what was coming, who I would become and how. And I suddenly saw it all over again in front of me. The light was exactly the same, and as the sun fell and the summer shadows slivered against the elegant, lean, concrete towers in the...
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I will never be a brain surgeon, and I will never play the piano like Glenn Gould.But what keeps me up late at night, and constantly gives me reason to fret, is this: I dont know what I dont know. There are universes of things out there ideas, philosophies, songs, subtleties, facts, emotions that exist but of which I am totally and thoroughly unaware. This makes me very uncomfortable. I find that the only way to find out the fuller extent of what I dont know is for someone to tell me, teach me or show me, and then open my eyes to this bit of information,... Try not to compromise. So many people dont do what they really want in their hearts because they feel like theyre not good enough, or theyre not smart enough, or theyre not talented enough anything. And that doesnt matter. In order for you to live a remarkable life in order for you to live a life that is fulfilling you need to be able to go after what you want. And if you dont, youre not going to achieve it ever. Debbie Millman, Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Life and Design // There comes a point when you realize that these things, these brands, aren't "enough." Having more or better or best doesn't provide you with a lasting sense of having more or being better or being best. It's a rather fleeting experience, this romantic attachment to brands, and I find that if I'm not careful, the search for having more or better or best is a precarious journey into the infinite. When you depend on finite objects-or brands-to provide you with a long-term sense of self or love or pride or achievement, you start yourself out on a path with...
On page 184 Millman boasts that she didn't like Cloverfield. I'd like to say this didn't influence my dislike of the book, but I can't promise it.I felt many of her essays were pedestrian, and the attempt to link them to design philosophy felt artificial and forced. Printing them in quirky, over-sized, type/handwriting/embroidery/index... More of an autobiography of sorts....the most interesting part was the typography. Otherwise it's more of an homage to brand (design) and the power of marketing. This is a brave and daring book, well complemented by its unique and expressive design. Only fitfully, though, is it genuine and moving. The conceitvery successful branding executive writes a collection of short memoir pieces to try and locate her relationship to designis certainly unique. (I'm jealous I didn't think of it first and...
