Frank Chimero: It Moves

New Adventures, 19th January 2012

What is the primary quality of great design? It moves. It moves us emotionally, it moves from person to person, it moves us forward toward something better. Designers shift like the trickster across the borderlands, tell productive untruths, then toil to make them reality. Design shifts like a shadow and moves the target, and when it does so well, the products of the design get passed on like a story and turn into a gift. Pass it on.

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2. Obligatory Hello Slide @fchimero
5. Tiny Pony
7. The search.
8. The search.
10. What is the nature of the search you ask?
11. What is the nature of the search you ask? Really it is very simple; at least for a fellow like me.
12. What is the nature of the search you ask? Really it is very simple; at least for a fellow like me. So simple that it is easily overlooked.
14. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
15. What makes good design good?
26. Good design moves.
27. Good design moves. Making
28. Good design moves. Making Publication
29. Good design moves. Making Resonance Publication
30. Good design moves. Making Resonance Publication Proliferation
31. The medium is in motion.
41. Gabriela Herman
42. The Malleable Canvas
43. The Malleable Canvas Content changes from page to page. Canvas changes from device to device. Context changes from place to place.
44. It all moves.
45. It all moves.
46. Constants
47. Constants Choreography
49. An Investigation of Motion
51. Out of Sync
55. Old solutions eventually turn into new problems
56. Listen. Move.
57. Spaces for Movement
58. A B →
59. A B →
65. MUSTARD
66. MUST ARD
67. MUSTARD
68. A Magic Trick
75. In the end we had the pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained, oddly shaped emptinesses mapped by what surrounded them, like countries we couldn’t name. Jeffrey Eugenides, Virgin Suicides
76. Opening Pore Portal Opportunity
80. Bridges and Borderlands
83. Past Future
84. Past Future
85. Design Past Future
86. Design Client Audience
87. Design Content Format
88. Design Art Commerce
89. One to Another
90. Viral
93. Pollinate
95. Seth Johnson
97. Loli Casás Mariño
99. Sam Willman
100. Letting Go
102. The moment just past is extinguished forever, save for the things made during it. George Kubler
103. Everything was made.
104. What makes good design good?
111. The world is not yet done.
112. Lucky us.
113. Thank you.