April 19, 2005
WORD TO DESIGN STUDENTS
Attend a university if you possibly can. There is no content of knowledge that is not pertinent to the work you will want to do. But before you attend a university, work at something for a while. Do anything. Get a job in a potato field; or work as a grease monkey in an auto repair shop.
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F*** COMMITTEES
It's about the struggle between individuals with jagged passion in their work and today's faceless corporate committees, which claim to understand the needs of the mass audience, and are removing the idiosyncracies, polishing the jags, creating a thought-free, passion-free, cultural mush that will not be hated or loved by anyone.
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April 7, 2005
GET UNSTUCK
Compiled by Derrick Cruz
TRANSFORM
convert. see your subject in a state of change. think of "cocoon to butterfly" transformations.
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KEEP IT SIMPLE
“LIFE is really simple,” said Confucius, “but we insist on making it complicated.” The Economist agrees. Unfortunately, Confucius could not have guessed what lay ahead. The rate at which mankind makes life complicated seems ever to accelerate. This is a bad thing. So this newspaper wants be the first to lay down some new rules.
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THE THEORY OF MONEY RELATIVITY
There is a tendency in our business to have amnesia when it comes to the value of money. A lot of people tend to think advertising money is less like real money and more like Monopoly money. It’s truly bizarre for someone to work night and day for an entire year to earn a salary of $50,000 and then remark that they “only” have $50,000 to shoot a photo.
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