January 2012
December 2011
“I’m decidedly awful at predicting what will make me happy. If I have high...”
– (via viafrank)
“I knew people that because their work was good, they had an audience. They could...”
– from a conversation with John Wedgwood, January 2010ish
The end of the year means cleaning up my digital life. I found this little quote tucked away, hidden deep in my endless cache of SimpleNote snippets. Looking back on this nugget now, it seems really appropriate for the new year, right?
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“I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of...”
– Anaïs Nin
“Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
– Mark Twain (via themindofwonder)
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“Work is more fun than fun.”
– Noël Coward (via viafrank)
“Find the cracks in the wall.”
– Tibor Kalman, New York, June 1998. He continues, “There are a very few lunatic entrepreneurs who will understand that culture and design are not about fatter wallets, but about creating a future. They will understand that wealth is means, not an end. Under other circumstances they may have turned...
“Design is 70% dealing with people, 3% the idea, 2% selling the idea, 2% the...”
– Duane King (via viafrank)
“There’s no money in poetry, but then again, there’s no poetry in money either.”
– Nice words from Caterina Fake. You can read the rest of the blog post if you wish, but I’m really pulling out a tiny part I love that is not representational of the whole at all. For this, I apologize. (via viafrank)
“Trees have solar panels. They are called leaves.”
– Ah, what a wonderful example of framing. · From the Do Lectures’ Twitter (via viafrank)
“The dirty secret of higher education is that without underpaid graduate students...”
– Op-Ed Contributor - End the University as We Know It - NYTimes.com (via viafrank)
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“Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.”
– Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson. via The Millions (via viafrank)
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“Today, it doesn’t matter if a work’s been produced, it matters if it’s been...”
– Smarty smart Rob Giampietro (via viafrank)
“Designers, like many others, started doing less and thinking more. A profession...”
– I’m surprised this article from Fast Company doesn’t have more comments, since it takes a controversial, kinda finger-pointy stance. from Designers: Stop Armchair Quarterbacking. Play The Damn Game (via viafrank)
“The notion that you’re trying to control the process and prevent error screws...”
– I love you, Ed Catmull. (Catmull’s the president of Pixar.) (via viafrank)
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“Many designers find it extremely difficult to produce unless they are working to...”
– Alan Fletcher (via viafrank)
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“Define your own voice rather than imitating others. Cut against the forces of...”
– Dr. Cornel West (via viafrank)
“People who love ideas must have a love of words. They will take a vivid interest...”
– Beatrice Warde (via viafrank)
