December 2010
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You often hear this from idea entrepreneurs: Don’t ask us for the answers. Let...
– A quote from this NYT’s article, In Pursuit of the Perfect Brainstorm.
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It will come, but the thing is it doesn't come if...
baitandswitch:
Philip Glass speaking about the creative process in GLASS: a portrait of Philip in twelve parts
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Giving Better Design Feedback →
“Good feedback relates back to goals and user needs. Bad feedback is subjective and prescriptive.”
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The Crisis of the American Intellectual →
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“Almost everywhere one looks in American intellectual institutions there is a hypertrophy of the theoretical, galloping credentialism and a withering of the real. In literature, critics and theoreticians erect increasingly complex structures of interpretation and reflection – while the general audience for good literature diminishes from year to year. We...
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New Contexts/New Practices: Six Views of the AIGA... →
Held October 8–10, 2010, at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, the AIGA Design Educators Conference “New Contexts/New Practices” offered a panoramic view of a transforming profession. By investigating how developments in technology, business, social priorities and even the very definition of design have roiled the field, the event sought to map a new, relevant landscape for design...
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The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it...
– The Art of Fiction LXXXVII by Elizabeth Hardwick, The Paris Review Issue 96, 1985 (via allthatglitters1968)
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Radical Cartography →
sarcasmisdead:
Some of the coolest maps (and uses of GIS) I’ve seen in a long time.
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Cartography in the Age of Google →
cartographico:
Cartography in the Age of Google
The first time you step into Beth Wilkerson’s GIS Center, you know you’ve found the right place. Except for her desk, a large-format printer and scanner, the room is covered with maps she’s helped to conceive. There are images from an animated map that shows the waxing and waning of Chinese dynasties, and archaeological maps created for the...
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