May 2012
27 posts
“My last piece of advice is this simple… Persevere. Because nothing worthwhile is...”
– President Obama, in his commencement address at Barnard College today (via barackobama)
“You rest, you rust”
– Oscar de la Renta (via ninagarcia)
“Its what you do with your mistakes, how you react, how you fix them, and how you...”
– NORICKS, C., (2012) “The PR Couture Guide to Breaking into Fashion PR” (via kayleighscottt)
“The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step out of the...”
– Salman Rushdie
“The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always...”
– Vasudev
“All great truths begin as blasphemies”
– George Bernard Shaw. Simon Singh also importantly notes “not all blasphemies become great truths” The job of science and design is to test each one. (via gregmelander)
“We need stressful days in order to be happy. We need days when we get zero sleep...”
– Ryan O’Connell, Things You Need in Order to Stay Happy (via closetoomyheart)
“IF YOU’RE MAKING THE CUSTOMER DO ANY EXTRA AMOUNT OF WORK, NO MATTER WHAT...”
– Aaron Levie, CEO and cofounder of Box
“The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to...”
– Bill Beattie
“If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more...”
– Albert Einstein
“Genuine creativity needs a collision of ideas, something that will never happen...”
– Ian Gilbert on the five steps of ideation in a field guide to creativity (via explore-blog)
April 2012
46 posts
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
– Aristotle, 384 BC – 322 BC. via properconduct (via gregmelander)
“Knowing what you don’t know is just as important as what you do know…”
– The PR Closet (via theprcloset)
“A designer is a facilitator”
– Greg Melander - a designer facilitates people and ideas to a specific desired outcome (via gregmelander)
“Everything you do creates the brand experience, ergo design IS your brand”
– Fastcompany - on branding by design (via gregmelander)
“The journey is the award”
– Atelier Olschinsky design studio - on the design process (via gregmelander)
“Be tough on ideas, gentle on people.”
– Milenko Matanovic