Weird Me

"The Mystery Box" Response

To start off, I do not need to ride the high horse of J.J. Abrams('nuff said). With his own take on the Ted Talks, he opens up the audience's eyes; like what most inspirational figures do. Spoiler Alert: The mystery is box is J.J. Abram's grandfather and also us in a sense. That is a great lesson in the fact that an ideal object is not the object. The actual ideal object is the viewer. Another thing I noticed with anyone who works with video, is that they live on the ideology: "you do not need the best to make something great." I say this now and will further agree with this along with my creative journey. As whole J.J. Abrams does not present anything new, however, he does show clear examples up to the imagination. Ted Talks are great and I hope to view more.

"20 Rules" Response

The article 20 Design Rules You Should Never Break, written by Mary Stribley, was very informative. When reading I changed rules to guidelines because if I were to follow all of them, I would not be able to design anything. Words like color discord, widows, and orphans are now a part of my design vocabulary. What took me away is when the article said, "there are no rules."(Stribley,1) However, it made sense coming from a design standpoint. My hopes is that there are more "rules" I have not discovered yet.