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Go Ahead Sk8rboi, Wear Those Skaterpants to Interviews

I wore a pair of khaki skaterpants to my first internship interview. Skater-pants, let me remind you, were a popular pair of pants in the late 90’s. They were like bellbottoms, except instead of just flaring out at the bottom, they kind of… kept flaring upwards to the waist. Disco had bellbottoms, Hiphop had hammer […]

How I Learned to be a Design Professional from James Bond

Being “A Professional” is a state of mind, a way of life. To act “Professional” is just a behavior, a facade. Being “A Professional” is a deliberate everyday practice of your inner pursuit to achieve perfection, from how you fill your cup of coffee to how you present your design to your colleagues. It takes […]

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 […]