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To understand paradoxes is to be able to hold two conflicting ideas in your head at the same time.
February 26 2010, 11:12pm | Comments »
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10 things Milton Glaser has learnt
when you are doing something in a recurring way to diminish risk or doing it in the same way as you have done it before, it is clear why professionalism is not enough. After all, what is required…
June 22 2009, 4:42am | Comments »
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Near Future Laboratory » Measuring the Immeasurable
Good, Fast & Cheap, a measure of things. Designed by Rhys Newman, modeled & machined by Simon James. A useful epistemological wrench — a conversation piece to discuss the measures of things and the things lost and gained…
May 23 2009, 12:21am | Comments »
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The simplicity of wabi-sabi is best described as the state of grace arrived at by a sober, modest, heartfelt intelligence. The main strategy of this intelligence is economy of means.
March 28 2009, 6:15pm | Comments »
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Bowman vs Google? Why Data and Design Need Each Other
Nuggets of perspective: "design is really a kind of multi-variate optimization of extreme complexity" and "Art is about freedom while Design is about constraints."
March 22 2009, 3:11pm | Comments »
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Elizabeth Gilbert's insightful TED talk on creative genius and the muse
Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses -- and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person "being" a genius, all of us "have" a genius.
February 14 2009, 7:02pm | Comments »
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The Design of (the wrong sort of) Dissent - Andy Rutledge
the vast majority of designers respect criticism only when we’re all criticizing the same thing in the same way. In other words, hypocrisy and jingoism are far more fundamental design values of our “community” than intellectual honesty or…
November 18 2008, 2:21pm | Comments »
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