Travis Schmeisser: We Used To Build Forts

New Adventures, 19th January 2012

We're one of the world's most technically inclined, connected and creative industries, but we've lost a great deal of our sense of self expression within the craft. Let's figure out how we can get that desire back and band together to great experiences purely for the same reason we started creating things in the first place - because we have to.

Transcript

1. New Adventures in Web Design, Nottingham, 2012
14. • [SLIDE] Screencap: Geocities • [SLIDE] Screencap: Old blog • [SLIDE] Screencap: My Space • [SLIDE] Screencap: Facebook • [SLIDE] Screencap: Facebook customized creativity • [SLIDE] Homepages, Blogs and Profiles
19. “In Myspace, millions of people have opted out of pre-made templates that ‘work’ in exchange for ugly. Ugly when compared to pre-gexisting notions of taste is a bummer. But ugly as a representation of mass experimentation and learning is pretty damn cool.” - Ze Frank, The Show 7.14.06
20. “As people start learning and experimenting with these languages of authorship, they don't necessarily follow the rules of good taste. This scares the shit out of designers.” - Ze Frank, The Show 7.14.06
49. “We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” - Hemingway
53. New Adventures in Web Design, Nottingham, 2012