Scott Thomas (aka SimpleScott) on designing the Obama Campaign. (via 99%)
January 4th 2011
Competition validates you. It creates a category. It permits the sale to be this or that, not yes or no.
- Seth Godin
“You probably only have to interrupt someone a couple times a day before they’re unable to work on hard problems at all.”
Paul Graham from an essay in 2005 (via 37signals)
“Some redesigns are often appreciated more for what they eliminate than what they add.”
Doug Bowman, Twitter’s Creative Director, on the recent redesign
“Art direction is about evoking the right emotion, it’s about creating that connection to what you’re seeing and experiencing.”
Dan Mall captures the perfect definition of art direction in A List Apart 317.
“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and somthing else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.”
-Chuck Close
Image from Wisdom
(Source: wearethedigitalkids)
Bernard Barry has posted a recap of his graphic work on Facebook’s first f8 Conference, held earlier this year, with some great insight into the process. The design, messaging, and attention to detail are all magnificent — a real point of inspiration as I start similar preparation for the Sencha Conference in November. (via Jay)
Bobulate: Evening edition »
Long before the advent of a 24-hour workweek, before we were looking to multi-task (then to single-task), long before “getting things done” was a thing to get done, we got things done.
A great idea, well executed, then described in the most beautiful way possible. Kudos.
“This means people who are always busy are time poor. They have a time shortage. They have time debt.”
Scott Berkun, The cult of busy. This is a great explanation of something I’ve been working on lately. Couldn’t agree more.
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