December 2011
1 post
“If there’s a question about if it’s necessary, remove it. Less is more and more...”
– — Jason McCarthy, GORUCK founder, via Pack Light. Go Fast.
September 2011
2 posts
Sage advice, for the design student: Design... →
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10 Things Henri Cartier-Bresson Can Teach You... →
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August 2011
1 post
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a...”
– Albert Einstein
March 2011
1 post
“There should be no such thing as art divorced from life, with beautiful things...”
– Bruno Munari
December 2010
2 posts
“It requires a genuine fight to produce one well designed object of relatively...”
– George Nakashima
The Embassy StainlessPen →
November 2010
2 posts
“Distraction is the most corrosive disease of the 20th century.”
– William James
“If you dig a hole and it’s in the wrong place, digging it deeper...”
– Seymour Chwast
October 2010
8 posts
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
– Pablo Picasso
“Clutter and confusion are not attributes of information, they are failures of...”
– Edward Tufte
“Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.”
– Ad Reinhardt
“When navigating uncertainty, facts and measured progress help accommodate our...”
– @ScottBelsky
“Self-expression is the new entertainment.”
– Arianna Huffington @ariannahuff
“Everyone has a plan ‘till they get punched in the mouth.”
– Mike Tyson via @paulisakson
“Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art,...”
– Paul Rand
September 2010
12 posts
“Life is definitely not a rehearsal, this is it.”
– Mike Watt
“Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.”
– George S. Patton
“Every new technology will bite back. The more powerful its gifts, the more...”
– Kevin Kelly: The Way We Live Now - Home-Schooling for the Techno-Literate - NYT
“Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.”
– Josef Albers
“Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men...”
– Bertrand Russell
August 2010
1 post
“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”
– Marshall McLuhan
June 2010
1 post
“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for...”
– Herbert Bayard Swope
April 2010
2 posts
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“Don’t mistake activity for achievement.”
– John Wooden
January 2010
2 posts
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and...”
– Thomas Edison
“All I ask of you is one thing: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism — it’s...”
– Conan O’Brien on his final show, via 37signals
December 2009
3 posts
Clients From Hell →
A little design-geeky, but funny nonetheless.
November 2009
2 posts
“Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art...”
– Andy Warhol
October 2009
1 post
August 2009
1 post
“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”
– William Blake
July 2009
4 posts
Seeking a less pretentious "boutique" -... →
Smart little post from the chaps over at 37 Signals. Be sure to read the comments.
“It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear”
– Italo Calvino
“I respect criticism, but I know more about film than most of the people writing...”
– Quentin Tarantino
ExoVault iPhone Case →
As seen at exovault.com
June 2009
2 posts
“The moment a man begins to talk about technique that’s proof that he is fresh...”
– Raymond Chandler
WatchObama at Five guys.
May 2009
7 posts
“Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.”
– George S. Patton
