Being Who You Really Are

This is all awfully uplifting for a Monday morning, but since I managed to run across the same theme in a couple different places, I thought I would go ahead and share.

First off, I read an essay on a biography of E.E. Cummings on Brain Pickings, with the wonderful pull quote:

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”

If you don't read Brain Pickings, you really should. Maria Popova runs the site and she consistently finds work and words that make you think.

http://www.casselliot.com/index.htm 

Then, not fifteen minutes later, Slacker Radio rotates in Mama Cass singing Make Your Own Kind of Music.



Mama Cass Elliot - Make Your Own Kind Of Music by Far_q


So,  go out and be you this week. Even on Monday.

The Importance of Capturing Movement in Design

Tony Zhou from Every Frame a Painting has a great post on how Akira Kurosawa used movement as a tool for story telling.


I think the idea of using movement to tell a story is one of the hardest to convey to graphic design students. Part of the problem of course is that so much of what we do as designers doesn't really move, but knowing where the elements on the page were before they got there, and where they are going when you look away, is key to creating tension and movement on a page or interface screen.

Another great video essay by Zhou is on the use of the Quadrant System.


More of Zhou's work can be found at his youtube page, and you can support his work and get extra commentary on his Patreon page.