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Screen entitled "Motion Picture Screen", Dan Friedman, 1989, Art Institute of Chicago: Architecture and Design

Raymond W. Garbe Fund in honor of E. Norman Brydges Size: 152.4 × 203.2 × 1.8 cm (60 × 80 × 3/4 in.) Medium: Painted board, with brass

Screen entitled "Motion Picture Screen", Dan Friedman, 1989, Art Institute of Chicago: Architecture and Design

Raymond W. Garbe Fund in honor of E. Norman Brydges Size: 152.4 × 203.2 × 1.8 cm (60 × 80 × 3/4 in.) Medium: Painted board, with brass

Live and work with passion and responsibility; have a sense of humor and fantasy.

Try to express personal, spiritual, and domestic values even if our culture continues to be dominated by corporate, marketing, and institutional values.

Choose to remain progressive; don’t be regressive. Find comfort in the past only if it expands insight into the future and not just for the sake of nostalgia.

Embrace the richness of all cultures; be inclusive instead of exclusive.

Think of your work as a significant element in the context of a more important, transcendental purpose.

Use your work to become advocates of projects for the public good.

Attempt to become a cultural provocateur; be a leader rather than a follower.

Engage in self-restraint; accept the challenge of working with reduced expectations and diminished resources.

Avoid getting stuck in corners, such as being a servant to increasing overhead careerism, or narrow points of view.

Bridge the boundaries that separate us from other creative professions and unexpected possibilities.

Use the new technologies, but don’t be seduced into thinking that they provide answers to fundamental questions.

Be radical.   

Excerpted from Dan Friedman: Radical Modernism, Yale University Press, 1994

Screen entitled "Motion Picture Screen", Dan Friedman, 1989, Art Institute of Chicago: Architecture and Design

Raymond W. Garbe Fund in honor of E. Norman Brydges Size: 152.4 × 203.2 × 1.8 cm (60 × 80 × 3/4 in.) Medium: Painted board, with brass

Picking the Perfect Voice-Over Microphone

Guilty as charged: In the past few years I’ve become a hopeless gearhead.

I like to look at new audio equipment; I like to read about it, and I like listening to sound samples.

On any given day, I have to spend at least a few minutes studying reviews, gazing at pictures and drooling over obscure objects with buttons, switches, cables and meters.

Dear Abby: Is this weird and should I be…