Tag: Personal
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Appreciative
“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.” — Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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Five things
Belfast-based designer Paul McNally asked me to submit to his Five Things project — a collection of favourite things from people of all ages, locations, and occupations.
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Things I’m sent
Now and again people send me products to review. A lot of what’s sent isn’t worth sharing. Some things are.
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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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Wild Geese Skydiving on the north coast of Ireland
Not quite Felix Baumgartner, but trying something new at Wild Geese Skydiving was definitely one of the highlights of the year.
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10,000 hours
“A good four or five years after graduation is needed for designers to begin to find their feet.”
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Designer headaches
I get headaches. A lot. Medication, physiotherapy, acupuncture (painful on the NHS), food diaries — no joy. Earlier this week, after a 10 month wait on the NHS, I had my third appointment with a different consultant neurologist. He told me it’s just bad luck that my brain is wired in a way that leaves…
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Boycotting GoDaddy
I don’t want to give my money to a man who glorifies elephant-hunting.
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Business goals and my “painted picture”
This is my “painted picture” — the shape of my business in 2014 (three years from now). The idea is that by putting it into words, my picture has a stronger chance of coming true. What I do I do what I do because I have a passion for design. In particular, brand identity design.…