Ryan Sims on talent
“Talent is the desire to practice. […] Merely doing your job every day doesn’t qualify as real practice.”
Frank Chimero on design as gift
As a designer […] my role is more frequently to generate desire in other people; to make them want. And the reason I’m so prone to want to look at the work I do from now on as a gift is because a gift promises to satiate that desire in some way.
[…] So maybe instead of using it to make people want things I can use the same skills to give them things that satiate those same desires.”
Frank’s key to being proud of your projects
If we want to make good design, if we want to do good things on the web, we need to have messages we believe and we need to gift them to people that we care about.”
The Greatest Speech Ever
O great misery, O swelling heart, O hope. via Lonely Sandwich
Joseph Conrad on the way through
Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.”
Joseph Conrad
Hitch on cheap booze
“Cheap booze is a false economy.”
Excellent article on worldly wisdom and business
The way to win is to work, work, work, work and hope to have a few insights.”
Jim Coudal on the process
“It’s a subtractive process not an additive process. It’s not about ornamentation – it’s about removing things, about getting to the essence of things.”
Design: communication, culture, commerce
Great video, this. A couple thoughts:
- I have to try to read. It’s easy enough, but there’s effort. That makes it more of a game — i’m more involved.
- Craftsmanship, clarity, functionality, social contribution, sustainability, beauty and results — is there a better definition for design out there?
- How on earth did they make this? The pictures don’t help much.
Buddy Rich on how you suck
Watching this i couldn’t help but think to myself: “what do I want to be truly amazing at?”
I play the drums. I play them quite well. I could probably impress you.
I also play the guitar.
And the keyboards.
And the computer.
And the website.
And the business model.
And the marketing.
And the parenting.
And the husbanding.
That’s why I’m not truly amazing at the drums. Which thing on that list would I give up being good at all the others for?
You may not have to give up everything to be great at one thing, but one day you’re going to watch a video of someone who’s truly amazing and you may realize it could have been you if you wanted it to be a long time ago and then you worked and worked.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmUbYiFXT_0
vid via hot doggin’ ladies