If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
Anthony Bourdain (via howtowork)

The Virtues of "Staying Up Late" by Michael Beirut

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One week after I graduated from college in Ohio, I moved to New York with my new wife Dorothy and began working as a design assistant at Vignelli Associates. It was 1980, and I was the lowest employee on the totem pole. Working in a design office in those days was different. I never touched a computer. As I recall, the office didn’t even have a computer. In fact, we didn’t have a fax machine.

I spent most of my days putting thinner in rubber cement and taping tissue paper over mechanical boards. Every once in a while I would get to do a mechanical myself, usually following the direction of one of the more experienced designers. I was working in New York City for a designer I idolized and I was the happiest person on earth. It so happened that we got an apartment that was three blocks-literally, a 135 second walk-from the Vignelli office. Work started at 9:30 a.m. I usually got up at around five minutes to 9 and still had time to pick up a doughnut on my way in.

Dorothy, on the other hand, had a corporate job downtown, in the World Trade Center to be precise. She had to wake up before 6 to be at work at 8. I literally slept three hours later than her every morning. Every night Dorothy would go to bed at around 10 p.m. I was still wide awake, and our apartment was so small it drove me crazy. I had a key to the office. So I got in the habit of tucking my wife in every night and going back to work to start another shift, which often would last from 10 to 3 in the morning.

This went on for four years. Anything I’ve achieved in my career I credit today to those four years. I loved working late at night. I worked on office stuff, and I worked on personal projects. I played music really loud and drank Mountain Dew. I would design anything: invitations for my friends’ parties, packaging for mix tapes, one-of-a-kind birthday cards, and freebies for non-profits.

When Massimo Vignelli noticed I had extra time during the day, he started giving me extra work. Things that would have taken two days only took one, thanks to the night shift. The more work I did, the faster I got, and the better I got. It never occurred to me to ask for overtime. 25 years later, nearing 50 with three kids (and the same wife), I can’t tell you the last time I was awake at 3 in the morning, intentionally, at least. So my advice to anyone starting a career as a designer? Stay up late while you can. It pays off.

Michael Bierut
Partner, Pentagram Design New York

Pretty fucking dead on. You can learn passion.

2012 in a nutshell. These are my favorite albums of 2012 and the playlist is one song from each album. Check it.

  1. Tame Impala - Lonerism
  2. Mac Demarco - 2
  3. Melody’s Echo Chamber - S/T
  4. Diiv - Oshin
  5. Chromatics - Kill For Love
  6. Chairlift - Something
  7. Matthew Dear - Beams
  8. Violens - True
  9. Ringo Deathstarr - Mauve
  10. Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits
  11. Air - Le Voyage Dans La Lune
  12. Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action at a Distance
  13. John Talbot - fin
  14. Kindness - World, You Need A Change of Mind
  15. Wild Nothing - Nocturne
  16. Sam Flax - Age Waves
  17. The Walkmen - Heaven
  18. Damien Jurado - Maraqopa
  19. Daphni - Jiaolong
  20. Black Marble - A Different Arrangement
  21. Metz - S/T
  22. Jessica Pratt - S/T
  23. Tamaryn - Tender New Signs
  24. Cold Pumas - Persistent Malaise
  25. Santigold - Master of My Make-Believe
  26. Grimes - Visions
  27. Cold Showers - Love and Regret
  28. Deerhoof - Breakup Song
  29. JJ DOOM - Key to the Kuffs
  30. Tanlines - Mixed Emotions
  31. Gangrene (The Alchemist & Oh No) - Vodka & Ayahuasca
  32. Toy - S/T
  33. Beak> - > >
  34. Frank Ocean - channel Orange
  35. Shigeto - Lineage
  36. Mmoss - Only Children 
  37. Errors - Have Some Faith in Magic
  38. Karriem Riggins - Alone Together
  39. Bear in Heaven - I Love you, It’s Cool
  40. Collarbones - Die Young

Source: Spotify

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Expired L.A. is an on going series of my exploration of Los Angeles at night. Every building is unique and captivating, as well as the individual color shifts each building creates with every exposure. I am fascinated by the drama that is created by the night sky and seek the beautiful in the over looked; I find the mundane to be extravagant and I find the beauty in the expired; This is my Los Angeles.

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