February 2012
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January 2012
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“…When we take a stance different from the group’s, we activate the...”
– The Rise of the New Groupthink
“BERG sits in a hard-to-define design field somewhere between media, service,...”
– Back to the Near Future, ICON 099
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“…don’t try to control or make safe the fumbling, panicky, glorious adventure of...”
– Bill Coyne, retired VP of R&D at 3M (via armblr)
December 2011
5 posts
“Some people … say design is about solving problems. Obviously designers do...”
– From an interview with Jack Schulze, co-founder of the highly influential studio Berg—a group of designers completely unafraid of the word “invention”. Interview responses #5 and #6 are pure gold.
“In fact, it is now usually cheaper to just try something than to sit around and...”
– In an Open-Source Society, Innovating by the Seat of Our Pants
“…I wish more people were making tools for a specific creative purpose...”
– “Bless the Toolmakers” For me, this article highlights an important-and-often-forgotten value in the world of design consulting: authorship.
November 2011
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Coil Lamp pops its head up on a Refinery29... →
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“‘Pictures Under Glass’ is an interaction paradigm of permanent...”
– From “A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design”
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Sharpener Jar has a cameo in an interview with... →
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October 2011
9 posts
“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did...”
– Steve Jobs
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TEDxMidwest: 160ft² of sketchnotes
Chicago Ideas Week culminated with TEDxMidwest, a TED affiliate event featuring 25 speakers over 5 sessions in the Oriental Theatre in downtown Chicago. I was the official graphic recorder for this convergence of minds, capturing the presentations and stories in real time as visual narratives on larger-than-life 4’x8’ foamcore boards.
In the end, lots of TED attendees were excited by...
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Here's to the only CEO that mattered. →
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September 2011
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Dwell Magazine article on American design clubs... →
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August 2011
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Pinch gets a hat tip on Remodelista →
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July 2011
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Modern chefs have long embraced a nose-to-tail... →
As a CSA member for well over 6 years (and being married to a trained chef), I’ve come to love and respect every part of the vegetable. American culture has strayed too far from understanding where our food comes from, and with it our ideas of what we can cook or eat have narrowed dramatically. It’s heartening to see the mainstream press helping to shift people’s conceptions of...
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Get your Fab on—all of my designs available at... →
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“In 1995, Kanter argued that successful cities can be identified by three...”
– City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via travisekmark)