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‘Always a great read for creatives’ –retinart

Designer Bruce Mau’s Incomplete Manifesto for Growth, begun in 1998.

Read here. Great ideas – many of them resonate with my own design process; which took years to develop and is still constantly evolving.

I stay up late, I don’t clean my desk, I make accidents, my first drafts of anything are often random mistakes, most of my best ideas happen when I’m not working, I think computers really fuck things up (that comes from Tibor Kalman, actually), I’ve been avoiding award competitions like the plague, I ask stupid questions, imitate, drift, scat, jump fences and most important,

I laugh. At everything.

I believe evolution is key to creative growth. If it stops, stagnation seeps in. And things become dull really fucking fast.

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Steven Snell’s 10 keys to growth as a designer. Article here.

Sketchbook photos found via Design Mom

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Over the years, I’ve done many variations of each of these.

Found via James Saturnio

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Find out here.

Found via Twitter.com/FontSiteDiva

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Video for N.A.S.A.’s A Volta, featuring Sizzla, Amanda Blank and Lovefoxxx. Directed by Logan, with art by The Date Farmers. From the album The Spirit of Apollo.

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‘Steve Austin, astronaut; a man barely alive’

Pilot for The Six Million Dollar Man (1973).

Some trivia. A Bionic Wiki. And here’s Lee Majors’ latest bionic gig.

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Part 3 of 4

Part 4 of 4

Found via RenaudMan

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Here’s an excerpt from Tim Brown’s new book, Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation.

More about the book here. Order here.

Tim Brown is president and CEO of IDEO

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Seven rules for understanding design and designers.

Found via sfgirlbybay

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From LIFE Magazine, March 1969.

Found via OBJECT <> PLASTIC

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‘The problem with being an It Girl is you’re not known for doing anything’ -Harley Viera-Newton

DJ Harley Viera-Newton has created a hieroglyphic addition to Dior’s Beauté compact. Article here.

Plus,
It girl video below  . . . .

Top image via Nylon; compact shots found via twitpics

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‘Raoul Hausmann’s postcard to IK Bonset (van Doesburg’s alter ego) of rival theorist Herwarth Walden’

Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931). Magazine publisher. Artist. Designer. Propagandist. Troublemaker. Dutch. The guy behind de Stijl.

A van Doesburg show just opened yesterday (my birthday, how bout that?) at the Tate Modern. Review here. Another review here.

Runs thru May 16, 2010.

Stained glass composition by van Doesburg

Plus,
Here’s a link to my own low cost, van Doesburg-influenced font, 2491.

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