The Hot New Hip-Hop Producer Who Does Everything on His iPhone

A couple of weeks ago, I attended a talk about "design thinking": practice and paradox. One of the moderators complained (and made assumptions) about younger artists not being versed in classical techniques (i.e for fillmmakers it would be splicing actual film together or using a bolex as a oppose to using premiere to edit or using a digital camera).

The moderator hated how "bad" design has become. My eyes rolled in the back of my head so hard.

I agree, there is too much noise - there's mediocrity in all disciplines. However, the democratization of technology has allowed those previously without access to traditional ways of producing art, a way of creating outside of their disciplines.

Process is important, but so is performance and intent.

Anyway, read the full article on Steve Lacy here

We’ve been knocking on doors for the past seventeen years

Cindy van den Bremen created the first sports hijab seventeen years ago, so yesterday’s announcement that Nike will debut sports hijabs for Muslim women in 2018 has been a long time coming. “My initial reaction was, ‘Finally!’” she told Glossy. “We’ve been knocking on doors for the past seventeen years, but it was too early,” she said of her attempts to sell the idea to larger brands, including Nike. “There was no urgency yet from a big brand perspective."

read full article here.