I recently came across this video when my friend in Indiana posted it on his Google+ profile page, and apparently it was given from a college graduation guest speaker. The video is concerning banal platitudes of adulthood that occur day … Read More
Things I Have Learned in My Life so Far
When considering Stefan Sagmeister’s presentation Things I have learned in my life so far, I think it is important to remember that Stefan is very much on the fringe of design and fine art, a line on which most … Read More
Death to Bullshit
A coworker Chitra Tatachar (@nirakaram on Twitter) recently shared this Vimeo from Brad Frost during the Inspire Conference wherein he talks about eWaste, time waste, eTolerance diminishing, and the need for designers to focus on reducing the ‘bullshit’. Frost … Read More
I Can Smell Your CMS
A guy that I work with, Travis Maynard (@travismaynard on Twitter), was tasked with looking forward and exploring new content management systems (CMS) that would work with the Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center’s .NET and servers and .ASPX/.ASP … Read More
The Real Designer Becomes His Own Client
In Research & Destroy: A Plea for Design as Research Daniel van der Velden – who earned his BA in Graphic Design at the Hogeschool Rotterdam and his MFA in Design from the Jan van Eyck Academie – discusses the … Read More