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“If a job is worth doing, it’s worth doing well”
~Proverb
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“The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.”
~Arnold Toynbee
Failure And Imagination
(jonathanfields.com) – On this first Monday of the New Year, I thought how powerful it would be to share J.K. Rowling’s marvelous 2008 Harvard commencement speech on failure and imagination, two things she illuminates in a way that brings fresh life to their power and impact as we look ahead.
Listen to her words, watch her energy as she speaks.
Fifteen years ago, she was unknown to the world, a young divorced mother living near poverty. In this speech, you’ll see a glimpse into what took her from there to being the creator of a series of books that have sold more than 400 million copies, earned her over a billion dollars and created the opportunity for her to do what she’s here to do.
Read the rest and see video of the speech here!
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“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
~Confucius
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“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.”
~ Oscar Wilde
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“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.”
~ Thomas A. Edison
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“Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.” ~Salvador Dalí
50 Startup Logos from 2010
(blog.designcrowd.com) – Startups have flourished in 2010. The last 12 months have yielded some fantastic success stories. Groupon is a standout and is currently receiving a lot of attention, buzz and press. Some believe the latest wave of start-ups are driving a dot-com recovery. Either way, as designers, it is interesting to reflect and see what design trends and styles are used by some of the world’s newest and most innovative companies.
Below are 50 logos for tech start-ups that were launched in 2010 or that came to prominence in 2010. We’ve categorized them into 3 groups: “The Good”, “The Average” and “The Ugly”.
Read the full article here!
Quote of the Day
“You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things.”
~ Jon Stewart
Momentum: The Key to Making Your Big Ideas Happen in 2011
(www.openforum.com) – According to Newton’s First Law of Motion, the tendency of a body in motion is to keep moving; the tendency of a body at rest is to sit still. In other words, it’s a lot less work to keep moving once you have some momentum, than it is to start moving from a dead stop.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re running a marathon or running a business – momentum is key. If we can take small steps to execute our big, bold business objectives every day in 2011, it will be infinitely easier to stay focused, make great strides, and blast through the roadblocks that inevitably come up.
Read the full article here!
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The designer is a visually literate person, just as an editor is expected by training and inclination to be versed in language and literature, but to call the former an artist by occupation is as absurd as to refer to the latter as a poet.
— Douglas Martin
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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
— John Dewey
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Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up.
— Tate Linden
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Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
– Marshall McLuhan
Winners of the National Geographic Photo Contest
(yahoo.com) – The results are in for National Geographic’s annual photo contest. The Grand Prize winner, chosen from more than 16,000 entries, is Aaron Lim Boon Teck of Singapore, who captured trekkers watching a volcanic eruption as the sun rose and the moon set. Photo galleries of all the winners and finalists in the contest’s three categories — Nature, People and Places — are online at the magazine’s website now.
See more here!
Quote of the Day
Happiness… it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
-Vincent Van Gogh
35 Wonderfully Wintery Photos for Your Inspiration
It’s cold out there! So here are some wonderfully wintery photos to remind us of the beauty of winter. Stay warm!
Quote of the Day
Design is the search for a magical balance between business and art; art and craft; intuition and reason; concept and detail; playfulness and formality; client and designer; designer and printer; and printer and public.
— Valerie Pettis
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A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain’t got nothin’. – Leo Burnett
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Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent. – Joe Sparano