April 2012
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Best/Worst with Josh Hemsley
What’s the best thing about your job?
At MyEnergy I’m privileged to work alongside an amazing and dedicated team that not only trusts me to mold every design and product decision, but is there to provide a solid foundation of knowledge to help guide me through these decisions.
When I joined MyEnergy back in 2010, I challenged myself to not only change the way people think about their...
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Facing Pages 2012
Unfortunately, I was still in Melbourne last week. Otherwise I’m sure I would have attended Facing Pages—a conference about/for independent magazines held in Arnhem in the Netherlands. MacCulture as a great summary of some of the talks and things off stage.
Our Amsterdam stockist Athenaeum was running a pop up magazine store with hundreds of interesting zines, books and, of course,...
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Best/Worst with Buzz Usborne
What’s the best thing about your job?
I’ve always worked for agencies and big teams, and whilst that had it’s benefits, as a designer I always felt quite low in the chain of command. I often found myself forced to design against my better judgement, or to make decisions based on what I could achieve fastest—instead of designing the right solution for the brief.
Here at...
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“Resist the temptation to get a job. Instead, play. Find something you enjoy...”
– Written by Adrian Tan, author of The Teenage Textbook (1988), was the guest-of-honour at a recent NTU convocation ceremony. This was his speech to the graduating class of 2008.
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An exciting time to learn
Around this time ten years ago, I was sitting in a dark bedroom, probably with some Portishead playing from a MiniDisc player. A waft of stale beer and packet noodles coming from beneath the door, such was the typical smell of a student apartment. I was probably typing feverishly away on my huge, heavy Dell laptop. I should have been studying or finishing off some essay about a finer point of...
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Get off your butt!
I’ve personally been struggling with RSI for more than 5 years now. At the worst of times, I was close to depression and couldn’t work more than 3–4 hours a day before experiencing numbness or a burning sensation all through my right arm and hand. I’ve blogged a few times about my long way to (partial) recovery. There is no one solution that works. Everyone is different and...
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Issue #1 — Recap
As I’m emailing our amazing sponsors of the inaugural issue and prepare for the second one, I’ve had a chance to reflect on the last 6 weeks after the launch. Since I have been sharing quite a bit about the process of creating Offscreen so far, I’d like to continue to do so with a small recap of the last few weeks:
~1000 copies sold in the first 2 weeks.
~30.000 unique...
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“There’s a feeling of thinness that I believe many of us grapple with working...”
– In his fascinating exploration of the relationship between physical and digital creation, Flipboard’s Craig Mod documents the entire production process of the Flipboard iPhone app and makes a real, physical book out of it. (via gruber)
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Best/Worst with Maxine Sherrin
What’s the best thing about your job?
I’m very lucky. A large part of my job at Web Directions involves helping people learn about new and exciting technologies in an always-changing industry. I get to spend days on end reading articles, watching videos and listening to podcasts, looking for ideas and approaches that are worth sharing, and finding the right people to do this. I take...
