3Plant a flag on the web. Make sure people can see your work online, but even more importantly: write! Make sure people can read evidence of your thought process. It’s not enough to show the work; you need to describe the problem at hand and how you went about solving it. When I’m interviewing designers, the work gets you in the door, but it’s your mouth that gets you hired.
—Mike Monteiro (via austinkleon)
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The Power of Story (by Landor Unleash)
An outstanding example of how stories can be far more effective than poorly designed PowerPoint slides.
There is much that is wrong with Walter Isaacson’s biography of Jobs, but its treatment of software is the most profound of the book’s flaws. Isaacson doesn’t merely neglect or underemphasize Jobs’s passion for software and design, but he flat-out paints the opposite picture.
Isaacson makes it seem as though Jobs was almost solely interested in hardware, and even there, only in what the hardware looked like. Superficial aesthetics.
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Isaacson clearly believes that design is merely how a product looks and feels, and that “engineering” is how it actually works.
—John Gruber’s intelligent critique of Walter Isaacson’s much buzzed-about Steve Jobs biography. Very much worth reading in its entirety. (via curiositycounts)
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The role of the imagination is to create new meanings and to discover connections that, even if obvious, seem to escape detection. Imagination begins with intuition, not intellect.
—Iconic designer and legendary curmudgeon Paul Rand on the role of the imagination. (via curiositycounts)
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“Fail more often in order to find out what you’re capable of learning.” Iconic designer Milton Glaser, best-known for the I♡NY logo, speaking at Creative Mornings a year ago. More thoughts by Glaser and other famous creators on the fear of failure.
Modai Mobile Phone Concept
Smartphones are the epitome of planned obsolescence. If you don’t upgrade your phone every two years, you’re likely to be left out in the cold as software outpaces its capabilities. But all you really need to do is upgrade the phone’s brain, not its whole body. What if there were a smartphone whose body was designed to let this kind of modular upgrading happen? Julius Tarng has created one calledModai. It’s only a concept design, not a working prototype or a shipping product, but I wish it were
Can These Simple Animations Help Redesign Education?
Born to Learn is a collection of animated short films aimed at changing attitudes about how we mold young minds.
“To create ideas is a gift, but to choose wisely is a skill.” Advice to Sink in Slowly
Who is the best poised to bring innovation to the developing world? Big corporations that are already rich? Or people living in the countries themselves? Do big corporations bring better standards of living, or simply sugared water and useless doodads?
Do Designers Actually Exploit The Poor While Trying To Do Good?
