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I need a break from cramming loads of information into my brain...overload, overload! Anyways, I was thinking about how much more there is to these designers/artists I'm being forced to learn the names of, and facts that don't really give me anything to relate to. I know they must be significant, but what I really want to know is how they have touched people--how they have impacted the world. I don't just want to know what magazine they started, but how it made a difference other than it's appearance if it made one. I don't just want to know what companies they started or worked for and identify what was produced, but the minds and visions of it's people. I want to know the deeper stuff. I don't just want to memorize stuff that will later on be forgotten, but i want to take it in and internalize it and be moved by it. I want to be inspired. Slowly I am learning about these people my way...by doing my own research and discovering their ideas, visions, and advice. So far it's David Carson and Stefan Sagmeister. Now they are much more than just a name with some facts next to some bullets in my notes which i try to memorize.

About the picture. It is for my imaging assignment in which I have to do a magazine cover for a social issue: freedom of speech. This was what I was thinking...can we really say what we want when we want?

I think people are scared into silence if they know it or not, and for those who are brave enough to do something radical or say something to stir up something, only then is there a chance for change