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- Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.
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- All Things Nice
- I remember the candy cigarettes most fondly, not because they tasted better, but because they were grown-up. By Mandy Brown
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- Make Yourself Presentable
- My first time speaking professionally in public was back in 2005 at the first An Event Apart in Philadelphia. Let’s just say it could have gone better.
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- What the World Needs
- “Art?! As soon as there’s a war or recession, art will be the first thing to go. And when that happens, you’ll be right back here washing dishes. People will always need cooks.”
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- Cultivating Conversations
- Is there a way to make comment threads more useful, and more usable?
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- On the Subject of Design
- Good books are tough to find, so I’ve begun keeping track of notable ones.
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- Hello, My Name Is
- Badges are often a decidedly unfun and necessary evil of attending conferences. I have a pile of the things, some too big or too small, and others so garish they feel like a punishment. I can deal with an ugly badge, but I hate an unusable one.
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- Explain Yourself
- Contemplations on the utility of “graphic” in the title “graphic designer” for someone who designs websites.
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- If You Were a Typeface…
- A bit of cheesy fun: tell me what typeface best represents you. Extra points for additional typeface info.
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- Shake it Like a Metaphorical Picture
- Sometime next year, Polaroid will stop producing instant film. This represents a huge blow to photography, but also a loss of one of our greatest visual metaphors.
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