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Address Change

by Dan on November 7, 2011

If you’re in the habit of sending me catalogues or review copies, it is time to update your address books — please drop me a line  and I will send you the details.

And, yes, sadly I am losing the view.

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Milton Glaser: Embrace the Failure

by Dan on May 13, 2011

To promote their graduation exhibition in May, students from Berghs School of Communication in Stockholm asked prominent creative figures to discuss their ‘fear of failure.’ In this video veteran designer Milton Glaser offers his insights into creative failure (which apply as much to writing as much as design, I would think):

(via Creative Review)

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A Taxonomy of Office Chairs

May 4, 2011

A Taxonomy of Office Chairs by Jonathan Olivares and published by Phaidon is a visual overview of the evolution of the modern office chair and detailing the most innovative chairs designed and built from the 1840s to the present. In this video, Olivares talks about the book and the importance of the office chair in [...]

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Jason Fried on Rework

March 23, 2011

In a recent interview for CBC Radio show Spark, Jason Fried, the founder of 37signals, talked with Nora Young about his book Rework: CBC RADIO SPARK: JASON FRIED | REWORK Also doing the rounds is Fried’s article ‘How to Get Good at Making Money’: People are happy to pay for things that work well. Never [...]

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Something for the Weekend

March 18, 2011

Pushing Paper — Ben Kafka asks why is there no Norton Anthology of Paperwork?: My Norton Anthology of Paperwork would include some of the finest historical examples of boilerplate, alongside selections of letterhead, fill-in-the-blank forms, fine print, and the history of that wonderfully poetic instruction, “last name, first.” Indeed, the boilerplate metaphor could itself be [...]

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