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something interesting I found: a calendar concept where the carefully designed capillary action of special paper paces ink absorption, to show dates as they go by. Crafty and poetic at the same time. you can find the full story here: http://dvice.com/archives/2009/07/ink-calendar-re.php

I've been reading and watching speeches on how important it is to play. This, of course, is nothing new for most designer...I think we initially choose this profession because we intuitively see that it has something to do with PLAY, something we're not willing to give up. As it turns out, even a generally playful profession can find you in the middle of a "play dry spell", where it can feel like months, even years since last time you truly felt creative at play. This is something that should be avoided... creativity is a necessity for society, and play is the source of creativity. The interesting thing about these speeches is that they showed more reasons for play to be necessary, something explainable in more scientific terms than "it just doesn't feel right without it". I'm not gonna get into the details because it gets boring really fast, but basically with a scientific experiment it was shown that animals that were raised with inhibited play wer...

I went to the San Diego Pride Parade yesterday, and aside from the blistering heat it was good fun. In the overall joyful atmosphere, when I saw these guys I couldn't help wondering: what if we sent this kind of troops to Afghanistan? How different would things be? What if their exhuberant cheerfulness was so contagious that everybody forgets about war and starts dancing?       Mahalo

This is the title of a song by System of a Down, and unless you're into heavy handed (but beautifully crafted) crossover I don't recommend looking it up to hear what it sounds like, I just wanted to use the title. The reason why I like it is because it says "question" but it's not a question, it's an imperative. And I do that a lot (most people would say "way too much"),I question all the time, and it's easy to misinterpret the reasons that make me do it: people think I question to prove I'm right. I admit it, I am a little bit of a know-it-all at times (and by the way, almost everybody becomes one at some point) and I can easily see how one could reach that conclusion. I don't mind being wrong though, understanding why or how I'm wrong helps me grow and make fewer mistakes going forward. And trust me, I've made a lot of mistakes in my life...that's how I learnt almost anything I know. Therefore, going back to the "Questi...

Received these from 2 good friends, and I'm happy to share (assuming somebody's reading this) very interesting visualization too something good to learn

interesting (and entertaining) talk. I saw Sir Ken Robinson at a conference in 2007, one of the speakers that really stuck in my mind

-Edit: Last night, for the first time since I posted this, I read it again. It's awful, poorly written and boring. I don't know what I was thinking. I would delete it, but I'll leave it up as a reminder: the best thing about mistakes is that you can learn something from them- You have to be beautyful. To be happy. At all costs. This is one of the messages that is hammered daily into our heads, It triggers behaviours that sustain several multy million dollar industries. The thing is, I could almost agree with the core principle: the world, today's world in particular, needs more Beauty. Unforunately, Beauty is a concept that is difficult to frame, hard to measure, and challenging, at best, to manufacture. No need to worry though, because there are plenty of people out there that are making our life easier by breaking the code of Beauty, to give it back to us in simple formulas that will guarantee success (and by pure chance, can all be purchased, I guess we real...