You Can’t Spell ‘Beautiful’ Without ‘Be You’
truth.
(via nickreese)
this is one of my most favorite quotes in the whole wide world.
…because I Love this shit.
SRSLY.
If you don’t love it, you’re doing it wrong ;)
everything they said.
(via sarahcooley)
curiosity.
Keep it sacred.
& do what you love.
(via yayeveryday)
welcome
a student sent me this from the Institute of Design at Stanford because he thought it would resonate with me and my blog. he’s right. i dig it.
what i find particularly most valuable and interesting about this program is its multidisciplinary nature. when i went to college, i felt both the communication and business schools were outdated and restraining, and so, my school allowed me to design my own major. i worked with faculty to create my own curriculum which included entrepreneurship, communication, psychology and interactive media (the closest thing to IT/tech/internet/ux at the time).
that said, what I appreciate about this program is that it draws on methods from design & engineering, combines them with ideas from the arts, tools from the social sciences, and insights from the business world. basically, it focuses on design as a way of thinking about and bringing new things into the world. through a focus on doing, this program provides students with practical verses theoretical experience.
this is where the future of education is going (if conventional education is even needed at all)…
(ps. thanks James for sharing!)
“In the end, we’re all trying to make machines more rounded, more curved, more organic, more human. More us.”
I’m digging the look & feel of my new Inspire Well theme… (I’m also obsessed with its name!)
I also finally wrote out my personal story / bio…
“The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.”
apartment therapy: small cool 2010 contest
Meredith, a friend from Chicago, made Apartment Therapy’s Small Cool 2010 contest today! Her place is charming and lovely so I’m not at all surprised. Please give her a “Thumbs Up” to help her advance to the next round of competition!
PS - Meredith also runs a lovely interior design company RE Style & Design. I love their philosophy:
“The idea was that we should add value to people’s existing habits not try to change them.”
Ventillation - Thoughts on startups, technology, and the world at large
the vision behind Aardvark and an important lesson in user-driven design.
my new roommate sascha is an incredible designer. the above photos are from a show he had back in 2008.
i love this. design and art seriously get me high.
LOL.(via darklamb)
aviary, the best image editor on the web is now free (thanks to a series of funding). think adobe creative suite sans the $1K+ price tag. best of all, web-based means you can access anytime, anywhere and sharing your works of art is super easy.
congrats msg & aviary team!
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via msg via laughingsquid
