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Edit Out the Fat

Part of the beauty of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa was how they were able to capture moments. On film, it’s a rare skill to capture those everyday moments by clicking on the shutter at precisely the right moment. The invention of photography alone didn’t allow us to capture these moments and stop time forever […]

Learn to Create and Infuse Poetry into Designs to Make Them Sing.

When the credits start rolling, you don’t immediately go back to the beginning of the DVD and say “That was great! Let’s watch it again!” At minimum you might wait another five months before you see this movie again, regardless of goodness. Whereas if you hear a great song, you can listen to it start-to-finish, […]

Never Stop Dancing Until the Day You Die.

Steve Wilcox of Design Science didn’t even talk about design. As a speaker at the 2004 Mideast Conference he talked about his travels through his Africa with his wife. I remember two things about the village he stayed in. 1) Everyone carried shotguns, that part was scary, but when there’s music 2) Everybody dances. Whether […]

The Party for Creatives Started 10,000 Years Ago and Design is Late

Everyone in my design class seemed to come from some kind of art background. I did not. So I started to study other creative fields to learn their theories, issues, and conversations. My conclusion is that there’s been a massive creative party going on for years, decades and millenia, but Design is so late to […]

Artists Punched My Uncreative Face In

Artists have a focus to their work. The freedom and limited constraints, forces them to look internally and search for a meaning to infuse into their creation. With less outside-constraints comes a need to self-focus. In a zen-like state, the focus comes from within. Unlike design, they don’t have to consider the market, the audience, […]