Jason Fried on embracing your side-job
Embrace the fact that you have less time – you’re going to get a lot more stuff done.”
Jason Fried at SXSW 2006
King & Duane on craft
To us the idea of ‘craft’ isn’t about handmade; it’s about taking care, loving what you’re doing.”
Ian Coyle & Duane King @ PDX Creative Mornings
Catarina on what’s important
Working on the right thing is more important than working hard.”
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.”
Joseph Conrad on the way through
Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.”
Joseph Conrad
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.