Best Made Co. Founder Peter Buchanan-Smith on Starting a Business →http://vimeo.com/36608379
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Wanted: WordPress Ninjas →Well, it’s not one of those terribly urgent emergencies, but very slightly urgent nonetheless… |
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Wanted: 25 Graphic Designers →We need 25 contract/freelance designers for a short project with Agfa. |
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Javier Mariscal’s Advice for Young Designers →Good advice for young designers from Javier Mariscal. “… make what you really want to do …” |
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The Blue Lady’s New Look →From JKR, the Camden based packaging design agency, comes an intriguing collection of marketing and branding quips titled “The Blue Lady’s New Look and Other Curiosities: Posts from the Crossroads of Design and Marketing.” |
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John Fuller’s Sycamore Press →Ryan Roberts, purveyor of the official websites for Julian Barnes, Ian McEwan, James Fenton, Hermione Lee, and Ian Hamilton, has authored “John Fuller and the Sycamore Press: a bibliographic history.” |
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Doyald Young, Logotype Designer, 1926–2011 →A tribute to the late Doyald Young. |
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Nike SB’s Statue of Liberty →These Statue of Liberty-inspired sneakers from Nike Skateboarding have a hidden feature that you can’t see until they’ve been worn. |
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Clipper Ship Cards →These vintage clipper cards were advertisements for shipping voyages, usually from a port on the east coast (New York, Boston) to the west coast (San Francisco). They were distributed by ship dispatchers in the 1800s. |
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MyFonts’ Creative Characters by Jan Middendorp →Landing on my desk is this great compilation of type designer interviews done by Jan Middendorp for MyFonts entitled Creative Characters. |
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50 Reading Lists for Designers →“Spin/2 – 50 Reading Lists, a paper based on asking major figures in graphic design the question: what are the top ten books that you believe designers should read?” |
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Businesspeople Need to Become Designers →“Roger Martin, Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, tells us how businesspeople need to become designers–designing user experiences and business models–to create something new and fantastic, and not just analyze the past.” |
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Alain de Botton at Herman Miller’s Lifework →Alain de Botton interviewed at Herman Miller’s Lifework Blog |
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The Office of 37 Signals →Alissa Walker reports for Fast Company on the new office of the company that brought us Basecamp. |
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The Trouble With Amazon →Colin Robinson on the trouble with Amazon’s business model. |
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The Curation Cure at IDEO Patterns →“I realized something; that as someone used to luxury experiences, the biggest luxury of all was to be directed towards something by an expert.” —Tyler Brûlé, founder of Monocle magazine |
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