February 2012
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“Work is most fulfilling when you’re at the comfortable, exciting edge of...”
– Alain de Botton (via @shl)
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Stop Talking. Start Making.
General Assembly is a community I am proud to be a part of. Their M.O. is enabling determined and industrious folk to hone their skills and join the Creator Economy. At best, it is a powerful ideal that is shaking the foundations of the establishment to it’s very core and promising a future very different from the sometimes inefficient and clumsy world we now live in; at it’s worst,...
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“This growing desire among designers to bring their user focus, strategic vision,...”
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Bruce Nussbaum, Designers Are The New Drivers Of American Entrepreneurialism Fast Company
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Log / Transition
I am was an agency-trained, senior-level, print/branding designer & I want to left to work at a start up. Here’s why:
This article was written near the end of an extended and intense job search last summer. I decided to document this career shift on an anonymous blog called Log/Transition. I have since moved into a position as the Creative Director / Co-Founder of Wander and will...
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“My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him...”
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New Site, New Page
Check out my new personal site. It’s pretty basic, but everything on there was hand coded by yours truly. After a couple months of pretty intensive learning, I was able to put this thing together. The specs:
I started with very Basic HTML/CSS to get everything into place and looking right. The flags at the start of each sentence are also pure HTML/CSS — no images anywhere on the site (except...
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“By 3 methods we may learn wisdom: 1st, by reflection, which is noblest; 2nd, by...”
– Confucius, via Tumblr
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January 2012
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“Creatives have an inherent affection for every process involved in realizing...”
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Yesterday we launched the splash page for our forthcoming project, Wander. Along with it we revealed the “Utterly Pointless Leaderboard” where you can spread the word about Wander and rack of tons of amazing (and pointless) points! In addition to the points you receive for sharing and getting friends to sign up, you can click our pet cow for +1 per click. As of this morning the...
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Been Wandering
I’ve spent the last four months wandering…
After a brief hiatus, I’m back. The lapse in posting has not been for lack of work to share but rather for lack of time. I’ve been working furiously for the past few months and it’s time to pull back the curtain a bit and share.
All Was Well…
Several months ago I decided to make a pretty drastic career change. I...
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“Everything is a work in progress. Pardon our dust.”
– via Jack Cheng
December 2011
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Muxel is a simple idea that came after a week of fawning over Khoi Vinh’s social collaging app, Mixel. I had done some collage in the past, and Mixel was looking like the perfect glue-and-scissor-free outlet to keep that hobby going. I wanted to give my collage work a chance to be social, and being without iPad, Muxel became an analog way to recreate some of Mixel’s magic. (Read the...
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“If there is absolutely no way you can imagine being happy except studying...”
– Daniel Dennett to Chris Dixon
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November 2011
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Language Learning
So after some hemmin’ and hawin’ about the pain of learning an entirely new discipline, I’ve decided to tackle code. Just a year ago I considered code simply a matter of execution that could and always would be done by a couple developers working from a marked up PDF and some layers PSDs. But the more work I do on designing the detailed interactions that make up an experience,...
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“The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to...”
– Ingvar Kamprad (via Startup Quote)
October 2011
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I don’t post music on this blog, but this is...
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“The only rule is work. If you work it will lead to something. It’s the people...”
– Sister Corita Kent, Immaculate Heart College Art Department Rules
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“The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a...”
– ~ Steve Jobs on being fired from Apple.
(via logtransition)
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“1. Create work for yourself; don’t wait for work to be assigned to you.
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– 10 Spartan Rules to Guide Behavior, Hideo Yoshida, Dentsu’s fourth president and visionary leader, 1951
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