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Category Archives: Design
Wishing You a Very Merry and Snooty 2010/2011!
Like Forbes noted, here’s to bringing democracy to a… snooty business. Have an extraordinary 2010!
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Cabbage, ethics and design
If you don’t have time to read the entire post, here’s what you need to take home:
Back in the day, ethics separated designers from commercial artists. That line is no longer there. Now everybody’s Britneys Spears. Cashing in the fat cheques. But not for long.
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Top 3 things to avoid as a designer
‘Like bears, beating on tin drums, trying to move the stars for pity’. That’s Flaubert at his finest, right there. Though he didn’t exactly have designers in mind, when he wrote it. What he did have in mind, however, were frauds. Well, not just frauds. Everybody. There were no designers back then, mind you. So [...]
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Working as a graphic designer? Better quit while you’re ahead…
Whenever I need to laugh at the absurdities of life, I just think ‘Twitter’. By that I don’t mean Twitter is useless. Or deconstructive. Or pure garbage. No. In this case, absurdity is more than just living with an iron rod in your skull for a good 10 years. More than the equivalent of ‘miraculous’ [...]
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Good news: spec is not evil (part 1)
That’s right, I said it. Not only is speculative work (spec) not evil—it’s here to stay. And people in new media, advertising, or, for lack of a better term, the creative industry, better get used to it. What the spec! For those of you just joining us, spec work is when you submit your visuals [...]
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Your apples. Know them.