December 24th, 2011
I’m gonna let you in on a mystical truth: your big break is probably not buried in the “short-term gigs” section on Craigslist. Sorry to crush your dreams. Now close that tab before you catch a disease.
via Alexandra Franzen
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December 23rd, 2011
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December 23rd, 2011
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December 23rd, 2011

PBS Off Book is a great video series that “explores cutting edge art and the people that make it.”  The videos offers a great primer on design concepts.  I’ve watched the Off Book video on product design and steampunk.  This is a great series - I’ll definitely find time to watch the others.

(Source: youtube.com)

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December 22nd, 2011

Dieter Rams’ “Ten Commandments” of Good Design

Good design is innovative

Good design makes a product useful

Good design is aesthetic

Good design helps us to understand a product

Good design is unobtrusive

Good design is honest

Good design is durable

Good design is consequent to the last detail

Good design is concerned with the environment

Good design is as little design as possible

(Source: brainpickings.org)

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December 22nd, 2011
The truly “kick-ass” people in our organizations, don’t wait for permission to lead, innovate, or strategize. They do what is right for the firm, regardless of status. They bring a combination of “curiosity and passion” which Thomas Friedman once said “are key components in a world where information is readily available to everyone and global markets reward those people.” There’s a different set of rules and assumptions by which we’ll thrive and succeed in this new, networked society, and it comes down to this: while you can be a rebel or a subversive without being a leader, you can rarely be an effective leader without also having a little bit of rebel in you.
via Nilofer Merchant.
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December 21st, 2011
Social innovation needs practitioners who are creative, visual, passionate, broadly curious, generalists, integrators, listeners, systems thinkers and doers, and people who know how to create lives filled with both success and purpose. It needs designers.
Cheryl Heller
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December 20th, 2011
"Done is better than perfect." - Ben Barry
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December 19th, 2011

Consumption vs. Creation

In a typical day, are you spending more time consuming - watching online videos, reading blogs or books, watching TV?  Or are you spending more time creating - writing, starting meaningful conversations, taking action on projects?

Stop consuming so much. Start creating more.

- ML

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December 19th, 2011

A Manifesto for Growth

Incomplete Manifesto for Growth from Bruce Mau Design

Some of my favorites:

#2 - Forget about good. 
Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. Growth is not necessarily good. Growth is an exploration of unlit recesses that may or may not yield to our research. As long as you stick to good you’ll never have real growth.

#12 - Keep moving. 
The market and its operations have a tendency to reinforce success. Resist it. Allow failure and migration to be part of your practice.

#14 - Don’t be cool. 
Cool is conservative fear dressed in black. Free yourself from limits of this sort.

#33 - Take field trips. 
The bandwidth of the world is greater than that of your TV set, or the Internet, or even a totally immersive, interactive, dynamically rendered, object-oriented, real-time, computer graphic–simulated environment.

Enjoy the full manifesto. 

What are some of your favorites?

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