February 2011
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“I’ve moved!”
– redcapedmischief.com/designmunch
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parts of the whole
designing an outline for thesis document writing.
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“autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward [are] the three...”
– © Malcolm Gladwell | Outliers
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“Where [people] come from matters. They’re products of particular places...”
– © Malcolm Gladwell | Outliers
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take-out turned sit-down.
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WatchPete Eckert, blind photographer
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reading:
from harvard biz review
hold conversations, not meetings / Goldsby-Smith
using stories to overcome fear / Gruber
manage your energy, not your time / Schwartz + McCarthy
the power of the right question / Anthony
from method
let’s get physical (with services) / Little
from the australian
from creation to innovation / Goldsby-Smith
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“I’M nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there’s a pair of...”
– Emily Dickinson
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“Tolerating randomness, we stay flexible, keep our options open, explore new...”
– William Calvin
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“Design is a contact sport.”
– Chris Pacione
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“Activities
Environments
Interactions
Objects
Users”
– AEIOU
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“In order that the former impression could occur to us in due strength, we must...”
– Immanuel Kant, on the sublime and the beautiful
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“best way to predict the future is to design it.”
– Buckminster Fuller
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“Empathy is much more than a vocational skill necessary for surviving...”
– A Whole New Mind © Daniel Pink
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“A closet wholly shut from light with only some little opening left to let in...”
– John Locke, on the camera obscura
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little lost treasures, rediscovered.
Among the many characteristictics which have been identified as peculiar to the human species—language, laughter, politics, love and cruelty—the one which is often overlooked is the capacity to be delighted and diverted by the exercise of the senses.
Although these systems were evolved to furnish reliable knowledge of the external world, man is unique in exploiting them for sheer enjoyment.
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que frio!
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“I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than...”
– Albert Enstein (via quote-book)
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Watchmicro-nutrient couture © Emily Crane
“Crane, a recent fashion school grad in the UK, creates gorgeous, sculptural garments using ingredients you could find in any old kitchen…”
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hygge
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russia: communal apartments
There is an outdated elevator that sometimes crawls begrudgingly between each floor. It protests with tired, gurgling groans as it takes my group up to the top floor of the building. We are told by our guide that the rooftop is no longer accessible—this is supposedly to prevent druggies from hanging out there. We settle for the floor just below, though even there, we stand among...
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“The story—from Rumplestiltskin to War and Peace—is one of the basic tools...”
– Ursula K Le Guin
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January 2011
44 posts
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faces
“It’s easy to dismiss design—to relegate it to mere ornament, the...”
– A Whole New Mind © Daniel Pink
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“[the future of work necessitates] …the ability to create artistic and...”
– A Whole New Mind © Daniel Pink
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delicious
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“Comedy is where the mind goes to tickle itself.”
– The Office
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