Author: David Airey
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More on unpaid internships
An internship is not where the intern does the work of a normal employee without getting paid. Photo by Nick Loyless. We talked about unpaid internships back in 2011, and the topic generated a fair bit of chat in the comment thread. Here’s a question from a recent commentator. “I worked at a social enterprise…
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Only 4% of women consider themselves beautiful
For the latest experiment in Dove’s Real Beauty campaign, Ogilvy hired Gil Zamora, an FBI-trained forensic artist, to sketch women two ways: the first in their own words, the second in the words of a stranger. The resulting three-minute video was uploaded to YouTube on Sunday (embedded below). It’s a powerful message. “Women are their…
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Fontfabric free fonts
Free fonts, more often than not, lack attention to detail, but some of these from Fontfabric make a nice change. One of them — The Kabel — has a few lovely application shots, like this… Not that I’m religious, or having a bad day. Top Photoshop skills though. Not to be confused with Rudolph Koch’s…
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Popular Lies About Graphic Design
An attempt to debunk the various misconceptions, half truths and, in some cases, outright lies which permeate the industry of design.
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Alan Watts on the dream of life
“Everybody is fundamentally, the ultimate reality. Not god in a politically, kingly sense, but god in the sense of being the self – the deep down basic whatever there is. And you’re all that, only you’re pretending you’re not.” — Alan Watts From the late Alan Watts’ Out of Your Mind sessions, available on CD…
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SODAE house
“In a nature area between Amsterdam, Amstelveen and Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, lies the Kostverlorenkade 1; an island measuring 1200m2. Here, VMX built a 500m2 house. The starting point for the concept was the perception of the landscape, the distant high buildings of the Zuid As and the Rembrandt Tower as well as the view…
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Reflections on design self-employment
If you’re thinking of quitting your salaried job to start your own design business, here are a few designers who’ve reflected on their time in self-employment. Photo via Slim 69 Guy Moorhouse of Futurefabric shared 10 lessons learnt after one year in business. Nathan Barry reflected on his first year after quitting his job as…
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On selling websites
Last week I was offered a five-figure sum for the sale of the Logo Design Love website. My sites will always have their price, but for a few reasons, I said no thanks. Photo credit: Instructables. My name’s on the book. If the website is controlled by other people, their actions will reflect on me,…
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Interactive mind maps
To help my thoughts at the start of a project I’ll usually create a few word-maps (or mind-maps). Sometimes I’ll use a thesaurus if there are particular words I want to focus on. Late to the show, I stumbled upon Visual Thesaurus, a kind of interactive mind-mapping tool. It was invented by Marc Tinkler of…