February 2012
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“Weddings are as beautiful as marriage ever looks on the outside, with its decorative words and couture gowns and floral displays, with its first dances and exchange of precious metals. That is, until your perception of beauty changes. Until you wake up one day and realize you’re both on the same team, even when you play against each other in scrimmages. Even though sometimes I drop...
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January 2012
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Reasoning With Vampires: New Moon →
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What I hate the most about New Moon: Meyer romanticized suicide. I understand that teenagers (and grown-ups, too) have volatile emotions. A broken heart really can seem like the end of the world. People get depressed and feel like they have nothing to live for. I know. Though I’m not a person…
One of the top reasons I hate this series.
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Why Scrolling Is the New Click →
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Which is better for users, scrolling or clicking? This is the question that designers have to think about when they’re designing page flow. Clicking offers users a menu of links that take them to a new page. Scrolling offers users all the content divided into different sections on a single page.
Many years ago, clicking was the simple answer to this question. The general thought was that...
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What Businesses Can Learn From Designers →
December 2011
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Colorful Studio: Colorful Studio January Giveaway! →
colorfulstudio:
Here at Colorful Studio we enjoy connecting and sharing with others across the globe. What better way than to use the internet? So for all of you designers, fans, or just those who stumbled by, we invite you to enter for a chance to win the grand prize!
Grand Prize: Adobe Illustrator…
“Next to silence, stories are the most divine form of communication. Stories are...”
– Low Magick: It’s all in your head… You just have no idea how big your head is, by Lon Milo DuQuette (via toburnbright)
November 2011
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“Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is...”
– Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
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Design Rabies
(noun) When the desire for a beautifully designed item becomes so great that one begins to foam at the mouth, often ending in a blind frenzy to acquire said item. Can cause temporary amnesia and empty bank accounts.
See also: temporary loss of dignity
Credit to Ivana for her joint effort in discovering this new affliction.
October 2011
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AntiSpec: Moleskine Crowdsourcing for New Logo →
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Aaaaaand boycott.
Their response on Facebook is laughable. Whoever is running their marketing and PR should understand first and foremost how much it pisses designers off to hear about big companies crowdsourcing and being cheap douchebags.
The argument that Moleskine makes for keeping in the participatory spirit of the website is absolute bullshit. The participation aspect of the site...
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Lydia Encyclopidia: Thirteen Observations made by... →
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1. If you work hard, and become successful, it does not necessarily mean you are successful because you worked hard, just as if you are tall with long hair it doesn’t mean you would be a midget if you were bald.
2. “Fortune” is a word for having a lot of money and for having a lot of luck, but…
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Here's What The Wall Street Protesters Are So... →
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via Frank: For Steve →
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The world gives us so few who provide a way for us all to see in new ways. It always hurts when they leave. The effused sadness that has spread through the internet from the news of Steve Jobs’ death is to be expected. We lament when things are taken from us, and I’d say that Jobs’ death (like…
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September 2011
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ck/ck: 9/11: Photo Essays →
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Rather than filling this blog with images of and about 9/11 I thought I’d simply collect some links to a few of the photo essays published this week. It’s not easy to look at some of these photographs, but it’s not supposed to be.
The New York Times: The Towers’ Rise and Fall
In Focus: The…
Last one.
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Jessica Hische: The Dark Side of Pricing →
ipen:
I’m sure many of you went to art school and I’m assuming most of the people reading this article are designers, illustrators or others working within the world of what we reluctantly call “communication art”. When we graduated from art school, a career was promised to us. We wouldn’t spend our days covered in grape jelly, masturbating before crowds to win a spot at the Whitney Biennial—we...
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August 2011
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How To Be A Dangerous Woman →
tybarbary:
“I went through a period in my life when people kept telling me how ‘strong’ I was. You must be very strong. You’re such a strong woman. You’re strong!
It got annoying.
And not because I disagreed with the premise.
I just didn’t understand why this wasn’t the assumption to begin with.”
Love this.
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Anthony Bourdain: SOUTHERN COMFORT →
anthonybourdain:
I just got back from family vacation, where, for ten days, I violated all my rules and everything I’ve ever preached about how to travel. I stayed put. I rarely left the hotel grounds. I ate in the same two restaurants for most of my trip—rarely deviating from pasta, pizza and gelato. Though…
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