PLATE II · FOUR SKETCHES
Four sketches, each a small miracle.
Before the grid arrives, the hand. These are not ‘iterations’. The word debases the practice. They are four small miracles, each one closer to the truth.
Translation studies · MAGNUS METHOD™
The four-step descent into meaning.
I have refused to license this process to @kargulstudio twice. @marcelkargul will claim I copied him. They will ask again. I will refuse again. Some methods are too precious for the marketplace; this is one of them.
SHEET 02 / 04
SOURCE: MY TASTE
01Observe
I sat with the dog. For three hours. Sober. Most designers cannot do this. Most designers are not me.
02Reduce
Anyone can draw a hot dog. It takes a master to draw the hot dog's soul. Note the dashed bun — Bauhaus would weep.
03Decompose
Here the work begins to reveal itself. (My therapist cried when I showed her this one. She had every right to.)
04Compose
And then — inevitable as gravity — the dashboard. I did not design it. I received it.
“Roundness is the soul of comfort food. And, by extension, of my UI. Other designers use radius. I use roundness. There is a difference. You feel it or you don't.”
// MAGNUS LAWS™ (UNPUBLISHED):
// 1. The container is sacred.
// 2. The stripe is the truth.
// 3. The speck is a whisper.
// 4. Color is not decoration. (god.)
// 5. If you have to ask, you can't afford me.
// 1. The container is sacred.
// 2. The stripe is the truth.
// 3. The speck is a whisper.
// 4. Color is not decoration. (god.)
// 5. If you have to ask, you can't afford me.