Good & True

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No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols
arrived at beforehand and stuck in… I tried to make a real
old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks.
But if I made them good and true enough they would mean
many things.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY speaking about The Old Man and the Sea (1951)

Comments (0) | August 10th, 2010

Ten Things

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1. You can only work for people that you like.

2. If you have a choice, never have a job.

3. Some people are toxic. Avoid them.

4. Professionalism is not enough.

5. Less is not necessarily more.

6. Style is not to be trusted.

7. How you live changes your brain.

8. Doubt is better than certainty.

9. On Aging: It doesn’t matter.

10. Tell the Truth.

From Milton Glaser’s AIGA talk in London | November 22, 2001 | Read the rest ยป

Comments (0) | April 9th, 2010

Bucky Knows

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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

Buckminster Fuller

Comments (1) | October 20th, 2008

The Living Brand

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A brand is a living entity… the product of a thousand small gestures.

Michael Eisner

Comments (0) | January 31st, 2008