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Design the Design of Design (3-Orders Above)

The only commonality of all design is that it has intent. You can take any man-made-conception, and create a design for it, as long as it had intention.  Marketing can be designed, but no one calls it Marketing Design because we don’t like to think of it as design. They lust for cash \m/($_$)\m/ and […]

Designers Never Retire

When I was 14, I woke one one morning and decided to live a 100 more years. Since I’ve already decided my year-of-death, deciding on the length of my career was even easier. I’m designing until I’m 85 years old, that gives me a total of 65 years of design time, 10 of which I’ve […]

Design ‘Til You Die

Get rid of “retirement” from your vocabulary. Great designers don’t retire. They die. They design to the death. I’m certainly not Fuller or the Eames, but I can certainly design until I die. Charles Eames died at age 71 on a consulting trip to St. Louis. Buckminster Fuller died at 88, and released two books […]

Never Forget the Beginner’s Spirit

As you walk out of Yoshitomo Nara’s studio, he has this phrase taped to the doorway as a reminder when he enters the outside world. When Lance Armstrong’s came out of retirement in 2009, Yoshitomo Nara painted this phrase on the top of his bike frame for the Tour De France trials. * The phrase […]