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This is Steve Kulp’s blog, where he curates his collection of things and ideas that he finds interesting and deposits the occasional rambling about the state of the world. His professional interests include design, advertising, consumer behavior and account planning. His personal interests include everything else.
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“Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated.”

Paul Rand



October 01, 2010, 12:10pm

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Happy Ampersand Day! via Hoeffler & Frere Jones @H_FJ

Happy Ampersand Day! via Hoeffler & Frere Jones @H_FJ



October 01, 2010, 11:47am

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“Life is definitely not a rehearsal, this is it.”

— Mike Watt



September 29, 2010, 11:42am

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“Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.”

George S. Patton



September 27, 2010, 5:46pm

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Paula Scher’s murals at the new Queens Metropolitan Campus via pentagram.com

Paula Scher’s murals at the new Queens Metropolitan Campus via pentagram.com



September 27, 2010, 3:32pm

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“Every new technology will bite back. The more powerful its gifts, the more powerfully it can be abused. Look for its costs.”

Kevin Kelly: The Way We Live Now - Home-Schooling for the Techno-Literate - NYT



September 27, 2010, 3:24pm

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One question: Do they have a store? 
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Buchstabenmuseum&s=rec
www.buchstabenmuseum.de 

One question: Do they have a store? 

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Buchstabenmuseum&s=rec

www.buchstabenmuseum.de 



September 27, 2010, 1:55pm

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WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM by Steven Johnson (via RiverheadBooks)



September 25, 2010, 11:23am

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“Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.”

Josef Albers

(Source: brainyquote.com)



September 24, 2010, 4:32pm

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Nice collection of symbols from the long-defunct Office of Civilian Defense. 
via aqua-velvet.com

Nice collection of symbols from the long-defunct Office of Civilian Defense. 

via aqua-velvet.com



September 24, 2010, 3:03pm

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It’s rare that a clock catches my eye.
via remodelista.com

It’s rare that a clock catches my eye.

via remodelista.com



September 23, 2010, 2:19pm

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In the midst of rereading Amusing Ourselves to Death. Smart. Prescient. Amazing. 

In the midst of rereading Amusing Ourselves to Death. Smart. Prescient. Amazing. 



September 23, 2010, 11:12am

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“Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.”

— Henry David Thoreau

(Source: quotationspage.com)



September 13, 2010, 1:44pm

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“It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.”

— Bertrand Russell

(Source: thetechnomads.net)



September 10, 2010, 2:44pm

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“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”

— Marshall McLuhan



August 06, 2010, 9:43am