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Simplicity, many people think,
is an end in itself
But they’re getting it backwards
Simplicity is the path, the means
It’s not a far off destination,
somewhere in the future
It’s right here, right now
It’s taking things one at a time
It’s asking simple questions
It’s taking simple actions
It’s doing it slowly
It’s considering and being conscious,
with everything
When you find yourself becoming overwhelmed
on the path to simplicity
Taking a complicated, frenzied path
to get there
Stop, consider, and choose
the simpler path
And take it slowly
And easily
And lovely
Simplicity is the path, not just the destination, by Leo Babauta
Last night I attended the Parsons Networked Design Talk organized by the Parsons AAS Graphic Design Program in which I am an adjunct professor.
So, picture this: The presentation is in full swing and the founders of BurdaStyle.com are talking about the latest redesign of their site and show a “Persona” that their design studio (Area17) put together. And guess what, the picture on this made up persona is ME! I almost fell off my chair laughing.
It’s quite funny to go to a talk of people you have never met, no know much about and then boom, you see yourself on the big screen. In their Presona Profile my name is Janice Hampton, I live in Kansas, am 42 and am considered a “Life Long Hobbyist”. Oh, and I am a bank teller.
Here’s a picture I snapped:
(One of the designers at Area17 is a friend of mine and grabbed the images of flickr. Exactly what I do when I need to come up with a Persona-Face. Thanks for the laugh, Kemp!)
swissmiss: “Oh no! G! Come Look! We have a water leak in our bathroom!”
G: “Oy!”
silence, staring
swissmiss: “Kinda pretty, huh?” (snapping photos)
G: “Yup!”
“I’ve realized that I can’t stand conferences. To me, conferences are akin to watching television without Tivo, or going to AAA to get a triptik instead of mapping a journey on Google. Conferences are an old workhorse model–a mix of passive consumption and fluorescent lighting–that is at odds with the seeds of inspiration they are supposed to inspire.”
Fixing Conferences: Six Lessons From the Designers Accord Summit, by Valerie Casey
Team Carsonified will be returning to New York City in two weeks to bring back The Future of Web Design. They’ve gathered an interesting list of speakers for the two days of workshops and talks. (Happy to see my studio-mate Liz Danzico being one of them!)
If you enter SWISSMISS during online ticket purchase, it will entitle you to 15% off!
See you there?
I so need to get this Speaker Onesie for (the still unborn) swissmister.
(thank you for the sweet shout-out on twitter, heavy rotation!)
I am a proud member of the Authentic Jobs Network and happy to announce that we just relaunched a new and improved site. Cameron did some major UI/Design magic and completely retooled Authentic Jobs to help you better connect with talented web, design, and creative professionals. Post a job and take 20% off with promo code RETOOLED.
Some of the improved features:
Your listing will no longer get lost in the mix. Now candidates can find your listing by employment type, category, location, company name, and keyword.
1. Search by location, company, keyword, or listing description.
2. New categories include the distinction between Interaction and Graphic Design, and we’ve added Mobile and Management. You can choose up to two categories for your listing.
3. Twitter, email, and RSS subscriptions allow job seekers to be notified immediately of matching listings whenever and however they choose.
Since 2005, Authentic Jobs has offered their unconditional money-back guarantee. If you’re not 100% satisfied with the results from your listing, request a full refund within 30 days after your listing expires. Easy peasy. So, post a job and give it shot. You’ve got nothing to lose, literally. Good luck finding your next hire!
Monty the Fox, would you like to come and live at casa swissmiss? We’ll take good care of you.
I certainly believe this is the most beautiful, minimal mailbox and outdoor light I have ever come across. Hat tip to Atelier 522.
How lovely is this skinny Luft Wall Shelf by Anna Salonen? Only 9 cm wide, it will find its place almost everywhere. The depth is such that the placed books, DVDs or CDs do not completely disappear but remain partly visible. Naturally LUFT can be mounted also crosswise and so serves as storage for small utensils.
Haven’t we all been wondering at one point in our lives how to balance your pig-in-a-blanket with your Dom Perignon? Fortunately, Fred&Friends has got the answer – charming little plates with rings that fit right on your finger. Now you can balance your glass and your hors d’ouevres, and look positively in control the whole time. Genius! One size fits most, ten reusable plates per handy peggable pack.
Made me laugh.
November 4th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Parsons The New School for Design
Kellen Auditorium, 66 Fifth Avenue, NYC
BurdaStyle.com – The road to collaborative fashion design / a talk by Nora Abousteit and Benedikta Karaisl
Nora Abousteit and Benedikta Karaisl, founders of Burdastyle.com, will share their experiences building an active, creative community based on open source sewing over the past three years. The BurdaStyle community consists of over 260,000 registered members who have uploaded almost 25,000 designs.
BurdaStyle is a collaborative, DIY fashion platform inspired by the open source philosophy of sharing intellectual property and allowing the public to adapt it to their specific needs. BurdaStyle encourages its members to remove copyright restrictions from their designs. These open source sewing patterns are then free to be used as the basis for new designs that can later be sewed and even sold by other community members. In sharing their stories, Nora and Benedikta will discuss their successes and failures in building a platform for a creative community to share instructions and techniques, in creating a balance between open collaboration and authorship, and in enabling a true, networked design process.
About the Networked Design Talks: With the rise of the Internet over the past few decades we have witnessed the rise of networked culture. The effects of this transition extend far beyond the use of tools: they change the ways we communicate with each other and the ways we manage, construct and perceive our individual and group identities. This cultural shift requires the creative industry to reexamine its use of messages, symbols and aesthetics and to study their function within a constantly changing networked environment.
November 4th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Parsons The New School for Design
Kellen Auditorium, 66 Fifth Avenue, NYC
BurdaStyle.com - The road to collaborative fashion design / a talk by Nora Abousteit and Benedikta Karaisl
Nora Abousteit and Benedikta Karaisl, founders of Burdastyle.com, will share their experiences building an active, creative community based on open source sewing over the past three years. The BurdaStyle community consists of over 260,000 registered members who have uploaded almost 25,000 designs.
BurdaStyle is a collaborative, DIY fashion platform inspired by the open source philosophy of sharing intellectual property and allowing the public to adapt it to their specific needs. BurdaStyle encourages its members to remove copyright restrictions from their designs. These open source sewing patterns are then free to be used as the basis for new designs that can later be sewed and even sold by other community members. In sharing their stories, Nora and Benedikta will discuss their successes and failures in building a platform for a creative community to share instructions and techniques, in creating a balance between open collaboration and authorship, and in enabling a true, networked design process.
About the Networked Design Talks: With the rise of the Internet over the past few decades we have witnessed the rise of networked culture. The effects of this transition extend far beyond the use of tools: they change the ways we communicate with each other and the ways we manage, construct and perceive our individual and group identities. This cultural shift requires the creative industry to reexamine its use of messages, symbols and aesthetics and to study their function within a constantly changing networked environment.
Oh, this custom Book-Harp Shelf by swiss designer Hanspeter Steiger makes me swoon. Here’s what he writes about the piece on his site: “The strings of the book-harp are a play of light and statics, three-dimensional picture and bookend, transparent and complete simultaneously. Depending on the angle of the literary instrument it seems once closed, sometimes translucent – and turns to life upon passing. It captures the passer-by at the corner of his eye and draws attention to itself, the variegated content, or out into the sky.”
When Herbert Matter got the job to design a new logo for the New Haven Railroad he literally went through hundreds of sketches before arriving at the final logo.
NHRR logo development from Herbert Matter on Vimeo.
Can’t wait for this documentary on the influential swiss designer Herbert Matter to come out.
I just discovered the “Sort By Magic” menu option in Google Reader. Thanks for making me smile, Google.
(And for those of you who know me well: Yes, I am giving it another RSS Reader try, happens every 6months or so and then I go back to reading all my daily links in tabs. Old-School, I know.)
I agree with PitchDesignUnion: Ddelightful old-school collage & cut-paper stop-motion by The Electric Company & Carmen D’Avino. Ella will love this!
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