April 8, 2012
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein
explore —> curiosity counts
Replace fear of the unknown with curiosity.
April 7, 2012
‘Tell me about yourself,’ says a stranger at a party. You can recite your résumé, but what you really want to express, and what the stranger (assuming her interest is genuine) really wants to know, is what it is like to be you. You wish (assuming that your interest is genuine) that you could just open your mind and let her look in.
Louis Menan in a reading for school on cultural probes
March 13, 2012
Working definition of culture: people being weird together.
Frank Chimero (via Twitter)
March 12, 2012
PASSION DRIVES.
Sara Wilde, on the Facebook
(caps are mine.)
March 1, 2012
We’re designing tech with the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.
Ushahidi co-founder Erik Hersman via twitter (@whiteafrican)
What is the context of this? Why do I like it so much?
February 24, 2012
Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts.
Søren Kierkegaard
(via Candy Chang)
The life of a designer is a life of fight against the ugliness.
Massimo Vignelli
(via TypoJungle)
February 19, 2012

We should care more about our craft because we’re granted an opportunity to contribute to the world. We should care more about what we say because each time we speak, there’s someone there to listen. We should care more about our audiences because they are the ones who give our work value.

The things we make are all just excuses to speak with one another and to help one another.

basically re-posting Frank’s entire post, but in snippets
All I want to be
is a person who makes things
and thinks about them.
John Maeda via Frank Chimero