5 Secrets from 86 Notebooks

by Dan on October 26, 2009

“If you do what you love and you find other people who do what they love, you’ll be successful, you’ll do great work, [and] chances are you’ll actually make money miraculously enough. If you combine that with a bit of egotism and a taste for the spotlight you could also become famous, but definitely I promise you’ll be happy.”

Michael Bierut, partner at Pentagram and author of the truly excellent 79 Short Essays About Design (yes, yes, full disclosure: distributed by Raincoast Books in Canada), shares five simple secrets for doing great creative work at the 99% Conference in New York earlier this year:

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And what does this have to do with books specifically? Well, the final thing Michael talks about is a really cool school libraries project…

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1 ian shimkoviak 10.26.09 at 4:30 pm

very nice. thanks. Remember why your are doing it and who you are doing it for…. good deal.

2 Dan 10.27.09 at 8:17 am

Thanks Ian.

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