May 2013
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“A lot of Chinese people look up to the West as an ideal, so the construction of...”
– Why is China Stealing Cities, Towns, and Buildings?
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design thoughthouse: good design, bad cause →
livefrombklyn:
still, maybe it seems super-benign to use good graphic design for the lotto, so let me blow this way out of proportion. imagine you’re at the latest AIGA event talking to this hip young designer who says to you, “yeah, i know it’s the nazi party, but man, they’re giving me such creative control and i’m gonna use what they’re paying me to fund my projects that really matter…”
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“Some argue that students have much to gain by going through the formative years...”
– Eugene Chung, Universities Should Be Investors, Students Should Be Startups
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design thoughthouse: graphic design is a language →
livefrombklyn:
recently a friend confessed to me that he was kinda tired of graphic design. it had gotten old to him. and i get what he means. he was tired of graphic design about graphic design. it seems to me that graphic design as an industry has a tendency to be self-referencing more than most industries, except for the art scene. if we think of design as a language and compare that to the...
April 2013
15 posts
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“Places on the web for sharing content and ideas often remind me of real life...”
– Trent Walton, Ideas of March
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“Artists are trying to communicate truths about reality as they see it. They are...”
– Geoff Stevens, Should We Care About Art?
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“Whenever I leave you I feel a powerful and wonderfully terrible series of...”
– George to Anita; Anya Yurchyshyn, How I Met My Dead Parents
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“Applying for jobs can make you feel old, especially in the tech world. No one...”
– Ximena Vengoechea, Side Projects are the New Resume
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“Anyway, the point isn’t to talk about myself but rather to say, life is a...”
– Hunter Walk, How I Became An Overnight Success (Spoiler: Took 10,000+ Overnights)
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“The second good back-seat conversation I had was here in the Washington, D.C....”
– Christian Cantrell, Need Some Perspective? Ask a Taxi Driver
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“Sometimes when I was started on a new story and I could not get going, I would...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
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“Trusting your child with someone else is one of the hardest things that a parent...”
– Jonathan Cohn, The Hell of American Day Care
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“Paul Valery said ‘work is never finished, only abandoned.’ I’m not...”
– Austin Kleon in an interview, Austin Kleon: Art Thief
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“I’m removing myself from the backdrop of design blogs and editorial calendars...”
– Erin Loechner, The Mask of the Internet
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“The daily work you put into rearing your children is a kind of intimacy, tedious...”
– Michael Chabon, Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son, p. 19.
March 2013
19 posts
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“That we want safety alongside the paradoxical urge to destroy that safety speaks...”
– Alex Wilgus, Style as Substance: How Downton Abbey and Mad Men keep revolution alive by getting us to wear old clothes
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“Because really, human flight is amazing. For centuries people dreamed of making...”
– Joel Goodman, On Flight
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“Learning to design is, first of all, learning to see. Designers see more, and...”
– Oliver Reichenstein in Learning to See
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“This quest for digital omniscience, though understandable, is self-defeating....”
– Douglas Rushkoff in Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now excerpt.
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“My neighbors of Chicago, what have thou done? You brought in the darkness,...”
– Mary Young, the grandmother of 6-month-old Jonylah Watkins who was shot to death in the South Side Woodlawn neighborhood.
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“Time is the raw material of creation. Wipe away the magic and myth of creating...”
– Kevin Ashton, Creative People Say No
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“When instant cake mixes were introduced in the 1950s as part of a broader trend...”
– Dan Ariely, The IKEA Effect: When Labor Leads to Love In Makers: The New Industrial Revolution, its author Chris Anderson highlights the IKEA effect and adds, “What’s more, consumers tend to value more highly products in which they feel they have had a hand in their creation, whether...
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“When I say retire, I mean financial independence. Having the option to work,...”
– Sam in Retiring at 25
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“There’s just something great about what happens when a bunch of people get...”
– Mandy Brown, The Great Discontent interview
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“A single book struggles to balance on its spine; it pines for neighbors. Keep as...”
– Mandy Brown in Ways of Reading
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“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and...”
– L.P. Jacks, Education through Excellence, p. 1.
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“I half wondered if Groupon was a secret welfare program for young people with...”
– Ryan Smith pre-eulogizes Groupon’s possible downfall in Arty types feel Groupon’s pain
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Alienated Labor
As the occupational literature indicates, individuals fail to identify with their labor precisely because it lacks flow. It is this lack of flow that makes the workplace a site of boredom and indifference. It estranges us, and so our paid labor feels alienating—it fails to engross us. Of course, there are varying degrees of alienation in the workplace, and even seemingly monotonous factory work...
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“If the world seems unfair or beyond our understanding, sublime places suggest...”
– Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel, p. 176.
February 2013
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“If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few...”
– Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel, p. 9.
January 2013
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“Curiosity builds on itself — each new thing you learn about has all sorts of...”
– Aaron Swartz in an email exchange interview.
December 2012
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It’s an old Chicago saying, but it’s true: The only thing that keeps this city from being an overpopulated mess is our winters. Weeds out the weak, you see? And without 20-inch blizzards, 60-below wind chills and entire weeks with high temps in the single digits … we’d become New York. Do you want that? Hell, no. Welcome the snow. Embrace your heritage. Man and woman...
November 2012
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“Progress is incremental for us, both as individual creative beings and together...”
– Maria Popova in The Great Discontent interview.
October 2012
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Transitional Phrase
Currently transitioning from being the Senior Graphic Designer at Trinity International University to Graphic Designer at Roosevelt University. Bunch of my personal projects have been put on hiatus for a moment while I adjust to the new place and some freelance works to be wrapped up in a week or so. Be back soon!
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“However, if there’s something I’ve learned these past few years, it’s that when...”
– Jared Erondu in You’re Young. I’m 18. So what? 