An anti-photography book of sorts, this new guide sees the silver lining in our biggest camera cock-ups
An anti-photography book of sorts, this new guide sees the silver lining in our biggest camera cock-ups
Failed It! – a new book from arty publisher Phaidon – suggests we ought to take creative inspiration from spectacular cockups – and compiles work capturing serendipitous absurdities alongside found photos of real-life #fails
Failed It! – a new book from arty publisher Phaidon – suggests we ought to take creative inspiration from spectacular cockups – and compiles work capturing serendipitous absurdities alongside found photos of real-life #fails
An anti-photography book of sorts, this new guide sees the silver lining in our biggest camera cock-ups
Failed It! – a new book from arty publisher Phaidon – suggests we ought to take creative inspiration from spectacular cockups – and compiles work capturing serendipitous absurdities alongside found photos of real-life #fails
A fun and fabulous take on the art of making mistakes. Erik Kessels celebrates imperfection and failure and shows why they are an essential part of the creative process. Failed it! celebrates the power of mistakes and shows how they can enrich the creative process. This is part photobook and part guide to loosening up and making mistakes to take the fear out of failure and encourage experimentation. It showcases the best and most hilarious examples of imperfection and failure across a broad range of creative forms, including art, design, photography, architecture and product design, to inspire and encourage creatives to embrace and celebrate their mistakes. We live in an era when everyone is striving for perfection and we have become afraid of failure, which limits our potential. Mistakes help us find new ways of thinking and innovative solutions, and failures can change our perceptions and open up new ways of looking things. This book transforms mistakes from something to be embarrassed about into a cause for celebration. It includes over 150 visual examples drawn from Kessels personal collection of artworks and found photographs, along with tips, quotes, anecdotes and wisdom for celebrating with failure. To quote Kessels: 'the ubiquity of Apple + Z, means that we can literally undo any mistake before it has had time to breathe, be considered and — perhaps — evolve into something else: a fascinating, strange, provocative or even original piece of work. This book asks readers to embrace their fuck-ups, learn from them and celebrate their tawdry glory'.
Erik Kessels' book "Failed It!" is an inspirational guide for creatives, students, and young professionals wanting to take the fear out of failure.
Non so voi che rapporto abbiate con gli errori, gli sbagli e il fallimento, io ce l’ho pessimo. Faccio piccoli
"When everything is on autocorrect, there are no surprises on the journey, there's no leverage for a chance misadventure"
A fun and fabulous take on the art of making mistakes. Erik Kessels celebrates imperfection and failure and
Failed It! – a new book from arty publisher Phaidon – suggests we ought to take creative inspiration from spectacular cockups – and compiles work capturing serendipitous absurdities alongside found photos of real-life #fails
Failed It! – a new book from arty publisher Phaidon – suggests we ought to take creative inspiration from spectacular cockups – and compiles work capturing serendipitous absurdities alongside found photos of real-life #fails
Failed It! – a new book from arty publisher Phaidon – suggests we ought to take creative inspiration from spectacular cockups – and compiles work capturing serendipitous absurdities alongside found photos of real-life #fails
Erik Kessels celebrates imperfection and failure and shows why they are an essential part of the creative process. Failed it! celebrates the power of mistakes and shows how they can enrich the creative process. This is part photobook and part guide to loosening up and making mistakes to take the fear out of failure and encourage experimentation. It showcases the best and most hilarious examples of imperfection and failure across a broad range of creative forms, including art, design, photography, architecture and product design, to inspire and encourage creatives to embrace and celebrate their mistakes. We live in an era when everyone is striving for perfection and we have become afraid of failure, which limits our potential. Mistakes help us find new ways of thinking and innovative solutions, and failures can change our perceptions and open up new ways of looking things. This book transforms mistakes from something to be embarrassed about into a cause for celebration. It includes over 150 visual examples drawn from Kessels personal collection of artworks and found photographs, along with tips, quotes, anecdotes and wisdom for celebrating with failure. About the author: Erik Kessels is Creative Director and Co-Founder of KesselsKramer, an independent communications agency with offices in Amsterdam, London and Los Angeles. As an artist and photography collector, Kessels has published several books of his found photography. He writes regularly for numerous international magazines and is editor of the alternative photography magazine, Useful Photography.
Failed It! – a new book from arty publisher Phaidon – suggests we ought to take creative inspiration from spectacular cockups – and compiles work capturing serendipitous absurdities alongside found photos of real-life #fails
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Wir sprachen mit Erik Kessels über sein neues Buch »Failed it. How to turn mistakes into ideas and other advice for successfully screwing up«. In Ihrem Buch appellieren Sie an Kreative, sich vom Perfekten abzuwenden und stattdessen von Fehlern inspirieren zu lassen. Warum ist das der bessere...
“You are looking for a single, brilliant moment and 99% of the time, you won’t get it. But remember this: when at last you get that shot you’ve been looking for, in a thousandth of a second, all those frustrations and near-misses will have paid off.”
