April 2012
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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...
March 2012
22 posts
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“Also the one thing we’re really pushing and questioning is, as people stop...”
– Excellent quote from Patrick Pittman, the editor of the awesome Dumbo Feather magazine, about the importance of the physical experience of printed magazines. Found on the Desktop magazine blog. ;-)
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From warehouse to workspace: The House of Commons
Koodoz is a small creative agency based here in Melbourne that recently opened their new work space named “The House of Commons”. The former warehouse/garage has been completely renovated and refitted to house the Koodoz HQ and startups BugHerd and Paydirt. Marc Katsambis, creative director at Koodoz, shared some of the process in finding and renovating the space.
What criteria did...
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Best/Worst with Rafif Yalda
What’s the best thing about your job?
A really tough question (and a cliché opening to my answer), I could write a chapter on this question alone.
I’ve never wanted to work for a large corporation, suit and tie, large grey buildings and the like. Working in such an environment would feel destructive to my soul, even if the work was interesting. The people you work with are just as...
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“I felt the laminated cover stock and smelt the freshly printed ink, and I...”
– I try not to let this blog become an outlet for shameless self-promotion and self-aggrandisement but Jän’s blog post about his experience with the first issue is just so heartfelt that I had to quote him here.
It’s such a humbling experience that people like him or Richard go out of...
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