May 31, 2011
Comic Actress Amy Poehler on Collaboration: “What I have discovered is this: You can’t do it alone. … As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people’s ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life. No one is here today because they did it on their own … You’re all here today because someone gave you strength. Helped you. Held you in the palm of their hand. God, Allah, Buddha, Gaga—whomever you pray to.”
Source: “You Can’t Do It Alone” at Harvard Magazine
Via: WorkWorkWork
Labels: Collaboration
May 29, 2011
Graphic Designer Milton Glaser’s answer to “What are you most proud of?”: “Staying alive and coming to work every day and still being capable of producing good work; being active in the world.”
Source: “An Afternoon with Milton Glaser” by Dwell
Labels: Work
May 26, 2011
The immediate popularity of the Mac App Store, and the iPhone App Store before it, reinforces my belief that in a world of infinite software choice, people gravitate towards the products with the best overall user experience.
Phil Libin
CEO of Evernote
Via: Jason Putorti, Co-Founder of Votizen, Creator of elegant.ly
Labels: User Experience
May 22, 2011
Seth Godin, Author: “In the battle for attention or market share, the market makes new decisions every day. And the market tends to be selfish. Often, it will pick the arrogant market leader (because the market also tends to be lazy), but upstarts and new competitors always have an incentive to change the game or the story.
Brand humility is the only response to a fast-changing and competitive marketplace. The humble brand understands that it needs to re-earn attention, re-earn loyalty and reconnect with its audience as if every day is the first day.”
Source: Brand exceptionalism
Via: 9-bits
Labels: Brand
May 20, 2011
First, I always write a script. It’s easier to write than to draw. I can write lying in bed, or on the subway—but I can’t draw in that condition. Once the thing is written, I begin drawing it directly in ink, and painting out things that don’t work. As you start to stage the spatial drama of a picture story—which is like a piece of theatre—you realize either which parts of the text are useless or which parts of the text are necessary. You can’t really know until you see it happening spatially, in front of you.
Ben Katchor
Cartoonist
Source: Project: First Drafts
Via: Scott Berkun
Labels: Writing
May 8, 2011
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of [people] and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.
Mark Twain
Author and Humorist
Source: The Innocents Abroad: Roughing It
Via: cathexis
Labels: Travel
May 3, 2011
Shea and Raan Parton, Founders and Partners of Apolis, on Relationships: “Since we’ve started, we’ve always seen personal relationships as being so important. And with any retailer we work with, we always see it as being an extension of our brand. Ryan and Sam [of Context Clothing] are just the best example of people that we consider our closest friends. They’re our first retailer out of Madison, Wisconsin. Ryan and Sam really take time to storytell about where products come from, also about the hands that produced those products.
Our philosophy for this idea of a global citizen basically comes down to the foundation of quality, and taking a part of a story of craft, whether it’s domestic or global. It’s a human story, and it’s taking a part of that story, then carrying it with you as you go.”
Source: Lonelyleap Film, Case Study: Apolis, “Common Thread”
Via: SECRETFORTS
Labels: Relationships
