Our friend Maureen Rolla sent us an email with two poems by her friend Don Wentworth, editor of the Lilliput Review, a print magazine dedicated to the short poem. They are from his recently released book Past All Traps
The second poem, equally good, is about mistakes: read more…
We recommend taking 20 or so seconds to scroll down the great homepage Stockholm’s Berghs’ School of Communication exhibit of students’ work on the theme of Fear of Failure (click “Manifest” on the left). It is positively/actively therapeutic, a worthwhile digital affirmation/manifesto on the theme.
In honor of the exhibition, the Berghs’ made a series short videos of famous creatives talking about Fear of Failure. You’ll find the trove on Vimeo. Here’s the great Stefan Sagmeister giving his two cents: read more…
Sally Schneider
Clayton Cubitt
via the great Constant Siege.
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Anne Herbert
From the always illuminating Peace and Love and Noticing the Details…
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Lately, we’ve been hearing a lot of people complaining about how little time they have, how stressed they are by all there is so do, being hyper-scheduled and unable to get off the strange treadmill they have found themselves on, trying to keep everything going. We’ve been mulling this very thing for quite a while now, wondering if it’s our VIEW of time that is the problem, or how we organize ourselves…remembering times in our lives when we felt there was enough time.
We find ourselves taking great comfort in this photo of Patti Smith in the ’70′s. “Fuck the clock!“: simple and to the point, an essential attitude to start working into our days.
We also found many great nuggets in the The Possibilian, the April 25th New Yorker profile by Burkhard Bilger about brillianto/researcher David Eagleman, whose brush with death – and that slow-motion thing that happens during an accident – catalyzed his obsession with the mysteries of time and the brain.
Here are our favorite bits (among many) that shed light on the big question of how time works: read more…
quotablecards.com
99% recently published a compelling post called the Power of Uncertainty. The gist (though it’s worth reading the whole thing):
Projects fail all the time because we unwittingly bake the end solution into our initial objective. Rather than enduring an uncomfortable (but highly necessary) period of ambiguity, we fall into the trap of limiting our creativity by setting a project goal that is too narrowly defined from the start.
Ambiguity. We’ve been feeling that A LOT lately, as we find ourselves on the way to something but aren’t sure where we’re going. It made us google “ambiguity/ambiguous” (It felt a little like googling “what are we doing?”). We stumbled on a couple of nuggets of gold, like the quote from Gilda Radner, above, and this great play on the Creative Commons Licence… read more…
Mark Malazarte
We clipped this great design of Jim Jarmusch‘s famous quote years ago, not knowing who created it. If anyone knows, please let us know; it’s too good to go uncredited. We’ve just learned it’s by Mark Malazarte.
And the quote is too good not to post.
Stefan Sagmeister
…a fab sign made of bananas by Austrian graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister’. It’s part of his new exhibit of his commercial/commissioned work at the Mudac Museum in Switzerland.
via DesignBoom
We found this great sign at The Imaginary Foundation (they put it on a t-shirt). Great!
Sally Schneider via Audre Lorde
We made this sign almost a year ago to accompany our post about making time to pursue what’s REALLY important to you; we can’t remember why we didn’t publish it. When we stumbled on it after all this time, it shook our head up a bit and put a few things in perspective, which we figure is always a good thing.
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In a recent Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, Will.I.Am of the Black Eyes Peas said THESE startling words in answer to a question from Deborah Solomon…
Clifton Burt via 20x200
…’nuff said…
…though the story is very cool:
‘think-make-think’ by Clifton Burt (at 20×200, Jen Bekman’s great virtual gallery of affordable art)…was inspired by a haiku graphic designer John Maeda “quietly posted on his blog…Over the next few months, that haiku often found its way to the forefront of my mind. When our studio acquired the remnants of a discarded arrow sign, it was clear to me that think-make-think was a perfect fit, both in form and function.
I have fond memories of my wife, Kate, Will Bryant and I digging through a Mississippi junk store in an old railroad warehouse on the rumor that there were arrow-sign letters in there… somewhere, if we could find them.”
With heartfelt thanks to Pamela Hovland!
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