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The Dirty Dozen: 12 Things Which Kill Creativity. Article here.

Dirty Dozen poster by The Silent Giants. Info here.

The Silent Giants blog here.

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One more by Lunchbreath at Core77.

Found via James Saturnio

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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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‘By fitting a standard vending machine with breakable objects set to shatter upon purchase, the Anger Release Machine offers passersby an easily available vent for their frustration’

Found via PSFK

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Photo by Katrine Syppli.

Found via Jes Cellophane

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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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‘Try playing the Trajan drinking game’

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From the most recent SNL. Rahm Emanuel. Trajan. Yeah.

Found via Jeanne Mehallo

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Video for The Action Design’s Landmines. Directed by Mike Sloat. From the album Never Say.

The Action Design’s website.

And
Band vocalist Emily Whitehurst (and Doug Elkins) runs a silkscreen shop out of Petaluma, CA; specializing in merch for bands. Shirts, albums, stickers. Just click on the image below for more info/shop.

Video found via Shandi Pierzina

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

Found via James Saturnio

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‘Please design a logo for me. With pie charts. For free.’

Here’s another snarky client/designer email exchange, this time between Simon Edhouse and David Thorne.

Read here.

Pie charts included.

Found via Justin Nelson

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