It's very hard to do the more subjective, interpretative stuff well. I can teach anyone...
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It's very hard to do the more subjective, interpretative stuff well. I can teach anyone from the street how to design a reasonable business card, newsletter, but if I bring the same group of the street in and play a CD and say, OK, let's interpret that music for a cover, well, 9 out of 10 people will be lost, and they're gonna do something really corny and expected, and one person's gonna do something amazing because that music spoke to them and it sent them in some direction where nobody else could go, and that's the area for me where it gets more interesting and exciting, and... more emotional, and that's where the best work comes from.
It's very hard to do the more subjective, interpretative stuff well. I can teach anyone from the street how to design a reasonable business card, newsletter, but if I bring the same group of the street in and play a CD and say, OK, let's interpret that music for a cover, well, 9 out of 10 people will be lost, and they're gonna do something really corny and expected, and one person's gonna do something amazing because that music spoke to them and it sent them in some direction where nobody else could go, and that's the area for me where it gets more interesting and exciting, and... more emotional, and that's where the best work comes from.
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lt's very hard to do the more subjective interpretive stuff well
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You know l can teach anybody off the street
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how to design a reasonable business card or newsletter
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But if l bring the same group off the street and play a CD
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and say Okay now let's interpret that music for a cover
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well 9 out of 1 0 are going to be lost
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and are going to do something corny and expected
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and one person is going to do something amazing
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because that music spoke to them and it sent them in some direction
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that nobody else could go And that's the area to me where it gets more interesting
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and exciting and more emotional
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And that's where the best work comes from
Clip duration: 43 seconds
Views: 94
Timestamp in movie: 00h 56m 59s
Uploaded: 23 November, 2022
Genres: documentary
Summary: A documentary about typography, graphic design, and global visual culture.
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