Nan-in, un maestro giapponese dell’era Meiji (1868-1912), ricevette la visita di un professore universitario che era andato da lui per interrogarlo sullo Zen.
Nan-in servì il tè. Colmò la tazza del suo ospite, e poi continuò a versare.
Il professore guardò traboccare il tè, poi non riuscì più a contenersi. «È ricolma. Non ce n’entra più!».
«Come questa tazza» disse Nan-in «tu sei ricolmo delle tue opinioni e congetture. Come posso spiegarti lo Zen, se prima non vuoti la tua tazza?».
[cit.] “101 storie zen”
While I was searching on the web for Moma Agency, the vintage social network ads creator seen the post before, I found this interactive brochure on Vimeo; I like it so I share it.

Brazilian ad agency Moma, designed some beautiful and funny social media inspired vintage campaigns for the Maximidia Media Seminars. The Sao Paulo based studio takes a rather interesting look at the speed to which our world is evolving. Creative direction by Rodolfo Sampaio, art direction by Marco Martin and copy written by Adriano Matos, the Everything Ages Fast campaign looks at our new media platforms through a vintage lens. The campaign features ads for Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Skype.

Today, while I’m surfing the web searching images about Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg’s Back to the future saga, I came across this very original and well made posters revisitation by Phantom City Creative, a creative studio based in Toronto, ON. Canada which deals with film, television and music entertainment design.

New eBook for me and my Apple iPad, Frank Chimero’s The Sape of Design. Holidays is always good time for me to read.