Category: Talks
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Milton Glaser in conversation with Debbie Millman
“The Hippocratic oath is equally useful applied to designers as it is to doctors. Why should a designer have any more leeway than a doctor?” A great conversation between two of my favourite designers, Milton Glaser and Debbie Millman. The piece at the end rings particularly true at this stage of my life, getting to…
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Good design makes you happy
If you’re happy, things work better because you’re more creative — you get a little problem, you say, ‘Ah, I’ll figure it out.’ No big deal. A relatively old TED talk by professor and author Don Norman (recorded in 2003 before TED became free-to-stream), so it’s a little dated, but still holds some gems. </…
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Haunted by data
Pinboard founder Maciej Ceglowski argues that there should be law to limit behavioural data collection to 90 days.
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It is always now
Part of us always knows that we’re just a doctor’s visit or a phone call away from being starkly reminded with the fact of our own mortality.
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Giving voice to ideas
Copywriting can be about much more than just tone of voice. It can form an integral part of a company’s brand strategy.
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The computer’s a dangerous instrument…
…because it shapes your capacity to understand what’s possible. It’s like an apparently submissive servant that turns out to be a subversive that ultimately gains control of your mind.
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Milton Glaser on Donald Trump
Trump licensed his name to an anonymous Dutch-distilled vodka in 2006. By 2007, it did $4.3 million in sales, selling for $30 a bottle, which priced it above Absolut. But by 2008, sales dropped 81% and only got worse from there.
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Michael Wolff on creativity
And on the three muscles he’s developed with age — inquisitiveness, appreciation, and imagination. From isthisagoodtime.org (now defunct, unfortunately). Via davidthedesigner. Michael Wolff elsewhere on davidairey.com: The future of branding.
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The design responsibility
How will design shape our future? How are we, as designers, taking responsibility for the products we help put to market?