February 2012
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WatchHere’s a lovely video interview with Max Lamb from the @proteinfeed crew, in which he talks about happy making things such as the importance of truth to materials, working with your hands and knowing that there’s a human behind a product. Yes, indeed, this is a heart warming way to end the week that has me pining for the workshop.
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“I design stories. And I write stories about design.”
– Me - with a sprinkling of innovation, environment, community and culture.
*note to self*
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“Delighting people is design’s super power.”
– The last word from @fchimero. Thanks for a great talk at Build Frank. It was indeed a gift and, in fact, made my Saturday.
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“The technical know-how, the skill, the craft, and art. Involved in production,...”
– Ahaaa.. turns out I need to be reading Aristotle too, for definitions of design. Thanks @fchimero. I ♥ that you talked about classical philosophy at a web design conference. You see, things can be other than what they are.
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“The goal isn’t to do business with people who need what you have. The goal is to...”
– Excellent to re-watch this TED talk from Simon Sinek today; reminding me how to progress with Creative Data.
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“A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.”
– Love this from Bruno Munari, via @fchimero in his talk at the Build Conference.
The quote comes from Munari’s book Design As Art - one I surely should have read by now. Must find it.
January 2012
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WatchHow flippin’ beautiful are these Syzygy lights by OS & OOS?
Thanks to @sight_unseen for highlighting them in their new Self Portrait column.
I love the solid sculptural forms and the incredible sensitivity to touch they have. I think Barbara Hepworth would have loved them.
“The amount of light emitted by the LED can be adjusted by turning either of the two foremost glass...
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“Everything I make is to touch, and people usually do, which pleases me....”
– The wonderfully inspiring Barbara Hepworth on her passion for making sculpture. You can get a lovely taster of her work in the excellent Tateshots series. Take a look here.
December 2011
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WatchI waited all week to watch this short film via @Brainpicker and boy was I rewarded for my patience. Such humour, beauty and lust all set in one of the most romantic books stores in the world - Shakespeare & Co in Paris. Where, once upon a time, I sat in the sunlit window over looking the city while being read to by a man I loved.
Ahhh… animated amour.
This is a wonderful creative...
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November 2011
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October 2011
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“So, what do you do if you’ve been put upon the planet with an insatiable jones...”
– Thx to @mssngpeces for sharing this @the99percent article today on Jonathan Fields new book - Uncertainty: Turning Fear & Doubt Into Fuel for Brilliance.
Looks like it will press many of my fear, angst and uncertainty buttons. Ahhh we meet again, my old nemesis, self doubt. I know you will eat...
September 2011
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August 2011
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“Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to...”
– JR
Fantastic winner of the 2011 TED Prize. Amazingly powerful image making with local people around the world in their communities. If Creative Data can come anywhere close to this, in terms of future landscapes and environment, it will have achieved what I set out to do. Help people see their...
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July 2011
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June 2011
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“Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that...”
– Love it! I read this Dr Paul Samuelson quote in Sir Ken Robinson’s book The Element on my way to work this morning and it resonated so that posting it here is the first thing I’m doing before getting on with the rest of my day. I am definitely, for the most part, a ‘happy...
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“It’s very hard as a dreamer to see something so clearly and not have the...”
– ‘Reality testing’, now there is a phrase I like. On a day when I am consumed by the enormous gulf between my vision for Creative Data and where it is currently at, these words from Mastin Kipp’s The Daily Love are very comforting or, rather better, bolstering.
I am totally loving...
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“It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and...”
– Profundity amongst the ROFL in Conan O’Brien’s fantastic 2011 Dartmouth College Commencement Address
With thanks to @brainpickings for sharing.
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May 2011
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“Better, not just more. The key word is “better” — and where opulence...”
– More excellence from Umair Haque in his recent post: Is a Well-Lived Life Worth Anything?
As ever, Umair is looking for betterness models and here, in the ancient greek word of Eudaimonia, he seems to have found a term that encompasses the concept of living well (“eu meaning...
April 2011
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“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
– Goethe
Loving this post HOW TO STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST by @austinkleon
So much excellent thinking crammed into 10 precisely crafted points, each of which hits a creative nail squarely on the head. Thanks to Seth Godin for highlighting it in his recent post: The opportunity is here.
A few of my...
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March 2011
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“If we do not attempt to discover the magic sense of things, we will do no more...”
– Joan Miró
From a wonderful article in today’s Observer on the work of that magnificent Catalan.
Looking forward to the Tate Modern retrospective which opens next month. Here’s a Guardian slideshow to whet your appetite for painted constellations.
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February 2011
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January 2011
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“And yet somehow these individual moments don’t seem to add up to much. Rather,...”
– Helen Walters’ excellent article on the Global Vandalism of CES (Consumer Electronics Show) last week. The obscene number of, debatably useful, new products launched is just ridiculous and rather desperate. #waste #straighttolandfill
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November 2010
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WatchBoy with toys and exploding phallic robot animations. This is the basic summary of the Robotica short film montage that I saw at onedotzero on Friday night (though there were a few fantastic exceptions). I do wonder that men never get tired of blowing up the world - real or imaginary.
Their love of flying debris knows no bounds, until there’s an explosion so great that it gets in the way of...
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