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So, do you have any siblings?
photo by Elinor Carucci for New York Magazine We all have a list of questions we ask people we’ve just met(people we wanna date). These questions are meant to 1. show that you are capable of holding a...
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Good Donkey! or Can Green Design Be Good Design?
Logo for The Climate Group, design by Browns Language developed through repetition. We understand what the word dog means because we were told, “this is a dog” and everywhere we went people agreed. We...
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Linkheavy
I haven’t done a linkheavy post in awhile. Here’s a bit of today’s weather. NY Times Magazine has a great piece on the NBA’s most underrated player, Shane Battier. It’s relevant to this blog because it...
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How (Not) To Write Like A Designer BUT Blogging Is Totally Cool!
Somali Pirates prefer Direct Deposit When starting this blog, I was more concerned with the writing aspect of it. Whether relating a certain topic to my experiences as a designer, or simply doing a...
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Employee Number 20 in The NY Times
The NY Times Business Section has an interesting article on employee number 20, Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search Product and User Experience (the woman who controls the look and feel of...
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Retired Graffiti Cop Writes Book. Graffiti Artists Aren’t Happy About It....
Photo by The Brooklyn Paper I love (okay, maybe not love. more like, am kinda into) my local rag, The Brooklyn Paper. Unlike papers with a national distribution, a small paper like TBP can focus on...
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Linkheavy
What’s up with the 30 degree weather, here in NYC? I thought spring was here. Oh well, here are some things worth checking out. What Does One Trillion Dollars Look Like Hint: It looks exactly the way...
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The Numerati vs The Designer: Why Google Web Designers Keep Quitting
Yesterday, Silicon Alley Insider tried to shed some light on why Google web designers keep quitting. Fundamentally, Google is a data-driven company; All decisions made there, including design choices,...
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Being A Designer Is About Accepting Certain Truths
Adrian Shaughnessy’s Ten Graphic Design Paradoxes: Not so much a list of paradoxes as they are a tally of keen observations from someone who obviously knows the deal about being a graphic designer....
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Google May As Well Have Run An Ad On Craigslist
Illustration by Gary Taxali — A response to Google’s request for free work. I despise “contests” put on by companies looking for free work. I also hate when said contests are voted on by the general...
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