February 2012
2 posts
January 2012
2 posts
December 2011
2 posts
November 2011
4 posts
“You can’t get the design right until you’ve got the right design.”
October 2011
4 posts
“Everything in life is art, what you do, how you dress, the way you love someone...”
– Life is art.
September 2011
2 posts
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that...”
– Albert Camus
August 2011
3 posts
“Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all cost tedium and...”
– Thomas A. Bennett
July 2011
3 posts
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind...”
– Shunryu Suzuki
June 2011
4 posts
“Perfection is boring. Getting better is where all the fun is.”
– Dragos Roua
“If you freeze an idea too quickly, you fall in love with it. If you refine it...”
– Jim Glymph,Gehry Partners
May 2011
6 posts
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.
Design is knowing which ones...”
– Scott Adams
“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of...”
– Theodore I, Rubin
April 2011
3 posts
March 2011
5 posts
A big fish in a little pond
Being a designer in a small company is fun. You get to see projects through from start to finish and you’re generally involved in all aspects of the design process - from initial concepts through to the finished product. But, with that added breadth in the role, comes more involvement in other parts of the business. You should be willing to get stuck in to all sorts of tasks.
- Mark...
A little fish in a big pond
This is the single, biggest difference between a large and small agency that has a direct relationship to the work you do everyday. Feedbacks comes third hand from project managers. You have to second-guess the creative brief. You are provided with signed off, prescriptive wire frames that detail every element on the given design - actually leaving little room for any design problem solving. You...
February 2011
5 posts
“Design is the search for a magical balance between business and art; art and...”
– Valerie Pettis
January 2011
5 posts
“At the end of the day, when it comes down to it, all we really want is to be...”
– Meredith Grey, Grey’s Anatomy.
“But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson