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Aaron Gillett

Aaron Gillett

Aaron is from Brisbane, Australia. You can find Aaron’s tweets at and website at www.aarongillett.com.

Australian designer at Josephmark.

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If you look at traditional Aboriginal objects – like a boomerang or wumura – they are objects of sophisticated function; great beauty; are inherently sustainable; and also contain a spiritual layer, which is usually carved or painted onto it. This is what informs our practice today. To match the intent and talent of our ancestral designers is what we strive for. This is design from an Aboriginal perspective.
Estimated reading time: 2 min
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    Aaron Gillett Alison Page on Indigenous identity in Australian design.

    6 days ago
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The Number One Reason Kids Don’t Need Facebook? They Literally Don’t Need Facebook.
Estimated reading time: 11 min
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if you build infrastructure people will use it, irrespective of how wide the sprawl, or how dangerous things used to be. "If you make the bicycle the fastest way from A to B, citizen cyclists will ride,"
Estimated reading time: 3 min
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    Aaron Gillett The 20 Best Biking Cities In The World: The Copenhagenize Index 2013

    3 weeks ago
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Our experience sharpens our eyes to certain perceptions and shapes what we expect to see, just as what we expect to see shapes our experience. Our reality is perspectival.
Estimated reading time: 20 min
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A good designer should be able to control a process in which the outcome answers the client's needs but also matters in a wider design context.
Estimated reading time: 4 min
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    Aaron Gillett Holger Jacobs of Mind Design on the importance of portfolios that contain 'commercial' or 'applied' work.

    February 14, 2013
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We believe that elegant interfaces are ones that have the most impact with the fewest elements.
Estimated reading time: 4 min
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    Aaron Gillett Insightful article on "authentically digital" design by Cole Peters, following Allan Grinshtein's article on "flat" interface design.

    January 29, 2013
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don’t be fooled into thinking you will have great power when you have become a graphic designer; your greatest power will always be through your ability (as a voter at the very least) to contribute to political change.
Estimated reading time: 2 min
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    Aaron Gillett Ken Garland speaking the truth in ARQ magazine. Interview by Lucas López.

    January 26, 2013
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I asked if there were any drawbacks to living as a creative in Berlin. “In L.A., people actually get stuff done because you’ll go homeless if you don’t hustle. Here you can be superpoor for years and still live comfortably.”
Estimated reading time: 4 min
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teaching you how to think is actually shorthand for a much deeper, more serious idea: learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.
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    Aaron Gillett David Foster Wallace on the double-edged sword of the intellect.

    November 5, 2012
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    gemcopeland Have you read the full speech? It's incredible moreintelligentlife.com/story/david-foster-wallace-in-his-own-words

    February 23, 2013
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At its best, design's cultural value—as opposed to its commercial value—functions as an abundance, a resource to be shared.
Estimated reading time: 3 min
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    Aaron Gillett Project Projects' manifesto for the Gwangju Design Biennale 2011

    November 5, 2012
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The digital realm is immediate, interactive and contextual, the printed realm being physical and experiential. Both, increasingly social, serve different functions and are not only valid, but essential.
Estimated reading time: 4 min
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To see graphic design as a form of social production rather than as individual acts of creativity means recognising that it is subject to the same economic and ideological forces that shape other forms of human social activity. It means that in order to understand the nature of our activity and to think about its possibilities, we must be able to locate it within a historical context that relates it to economic and political forces. This is (strangely) problematic, as Anne Burdick rightly states (Eye no. 9 vol. 3), because ‘it is considered outside our role to analyse the content of our work[…]
Estimated reading time: 15 min
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The most powerful tool in design is language, I’d argue it’s more powerful than drawing. Being able to find the exact vocabulary to define a concept or approach is vital, not only for discussion with your peers but ultimately as part of customer communication. With great power comes great responsibility, and language can also be used to cloak a concept, mislead, misguide or bedazzle through doublespeak, jargon or acronyms. In my studio, we’ve been trying to cut through this recently and are focussing on plain speak wherever possible.
Estimated reading time: 3 min
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Previously, in the twentieth century knowledge was transferred from a higher authority down to the level of the individual. In the twenty-first century, society is beginning to experience the first waves of a cultural and political revolution, facilitated through the ‘digital enlightenment’ of the information age.
Estimated reading time: 2 min
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    Aaron Gillett Christian Duell of the Asia-Pacific Design Library on Bottom Up, Top Down approaches to design.

    September 7, 2012
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Some argue that skeuomorphism helps novice users understand how something works, but it’s a flawed argument. Skeuomorphism helps people misunderstand the capabilities and limitations of digital products based on their understanding of a physical analog.
Estimated reading time: 3 min
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    Aaron Gillett Wells Riley on skeuomorphic design.

    September 6, 2012
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