Monday September 6, 2010
April 27, 2010
If you want to be artistic, if you want to be creative, if you want to express yourself, you can’t let things get in your way, and drugs are included in that.
Source: Back From the Depths, Rebuilding a Career
Labels: Creativity | Sobriety
April 24, 2010
“So here’s an idea. Design could start to value the idea of the happy, balanced designer. I know. It sounds so wrong. The entire structure of design is against happiness and balance in its practitioners. What would we talk about if we didn’t talk about how tired we were, how overworked, how busy, how stressed? Imagine knowing a designer that wasn’t hurting himself in some way. Such a designer would turn the whole mythology of design on its head. Which needs to happen. Because, let’s face it, if a designer does not understand what it takes to sustain Self and…
Source: Goodbye to the Art Ball
Via: Design Observer
Labels: Happiness
April 23, 2010
“How do you design a book cover?
First you start with a blank page, stare and think really hard, drink lots of coffee, take lots of breaks, fix the copier jam, update your Facebook page, get over the fears that this project is the one that will finally expose you as the hack that you are, and then just trust to do what you feel is right from what you’ve read, present your ideas to find out how they live outside of your head, listen to feedback, try to leave work at a decent hour, have a life, floss, get enough sleep, have a good breakfast and come back the next day to redo it all over again. It’s that simple and fun. And if it isn’t, then get another blank page and start all over again.”
Source: ...by Henry Sene Yee Design
April 22, 2010
Source: Kyle Van Horn, Printer, Baltimore Print Studios
Via: “We have a strategic plan…” posted by swissmiss
Labels: Strategy
April 21, 2010
As a content creator, albeit a small-time one, I feel constantly on the hook for finding interesting things to share with all of you. I scour the internet daily, looking for tidbits and ideas that are worth of your time and attention. It shapes what I read and, maybe more importantly, how I read it, as I am constantly reading with a critical eye towards insights.
I guess the point is that too little attention is paid to the effects of so many of us being content creators, since the consumption part is the topic-du-jour. Just think about how it…
Source: One Billion Creators
Labels: Creation
April 18, 2010
When asked about the role of a columnist who writes a few times a week when there are bloggers who put up something new every hour:
“Well, my role always has been to write an interesting column. There are a lot of people who are more knowledgeable than I on a given subject. You know, certainly if you want some breaking information on a constitutional issue, you might go to a lawyer blog and get some good meaty information. But that’s not at all the way I see myself.
First of all, I come out of the newsroom. I’m an…
Source: Pulitzer-Winning Columnist Can’t Be Pigeon-Holed
Labels: Writing
April 15, 2010
The underlying problem is that design is a holistic discipline while data-analysis, applied dogmatically, is a reductive discipline. When the two coincide, serious friction can ensue. But far from vowing to never interact, these two disciplines need each other tremendously. The designer brings perspective that helps to organize experiential systems at all scales, while quantitative metrics are key for validating decisions. The problems arise when analysis is treated as the primary driver for invention—that’s like setting a measuring tape on a drafting table and expecting it to design spectacular architecture—rest assured, the genius is not in the tape. …
The interplay of all disciplines (engineering, design, research, marketing, sales, QA, product, legal, customer care, etc.) is where the magic happens. Metrics are an absolutely critical interface between disciplines, but when wielded and controlled by only one discipline they can greatly limit the potential of the others.
Source: Bowman vs Google? Why Data and Design Need Each Other
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