“If trouble wants to find you it knows where you live and it will knock on your door”

inevitable disappointments... lol
Elizabeth Gilbert’s Thoughts on Modern Love

delicate, long thing

“I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its own will. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.”
—Yoko Ono

72 dpi ftw?!!

Mag+ from Bonnier on Vimeo.

Soon enough we may not need to pisst ourselves with that mega tiff file. and may not need to send emails saying 300 dpi underlined and highlighted in bold. no more proofs. no more mock-ups. designers will start using bit map fonts. but let us not fear and don't even bother to ask "is this a good or bad move?" The world's gonna change and your gravity weighs nothing.

design clichés

Brutal truth. god damnnn.... I think I used the most of them on the list but hopefully with little twist.

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The Lightbulb
The Globe
Compass
The Handshake
01010101
The Rainbow
Pointing Finger People
Bubbleheads
The Puzzle Piece
The Human Spine
Phoenetics (fo-net’-iks)
Pharmaceutical Pills
The Sun
Flowers

design clichés

“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”

—Mark Twain

beauty

http://observatory.designobserver.com/entry.html?entry=4337

i need to read this. tomo morning. now i m gunna get dwunk!

Perceived Value

Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man | Video on TED.com


Maybe we are the better and cheaper, meaning more realistic, solution than scientists, doctors, business men, etc. etc... My care for kerning types may seem trivial but we add values for no cost. A sheet of paper can become worth million. We create values. Perceived value, Badge value and Intangible added value.

Often I get too much involved in satisfying myself to do "better" design and forget that what I'm creating is "intangible value". forget because the value i thrive seem so tangible at the moment.. One reason why people don't want design to look too good. some products just can't afford high badged values.

"but I think an important philosophical point, which is, going forward, we need more of this kind of value. We need to spend more time appreciating what already exists, and less time agonizing over what else we can do" Rory Sutherland

"Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new."

"We are perishing for want of wonder, not for wonders." G.K. Chesterton

A lot of thoughts I pondered from this Ted video from a "naive advertising man".

Value
Value = Benefits / Price or Value = Quality received / Expectations