Badass Ideas

Its lovely outside again, and as in past years the warm weather makes it harder to sit down to write blog posts. Never fear, its not that I don’t have blog posts, because they are here…in my head and in textedit… I just have to sit still long enough to type them up.

So, I just wanted to catch you guys up personal and fun stuff, I tend to be spending less time blogging, but not necessarily less time doing designy things… they are just all over the place. If you follow me on twitter you probably see stuff I post pretty often, but they don’t all necessarily come together right here.
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While I may not have had the time to post to my blog lately ( the weather has been super lovely), I have been doing a much better job of keeping a collection of what inspires me.

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Design is about people, connecting with them, communicating with them solving problems for people, that is why I love to read interviews of designers. A design is the result of a series of events and stories, research and experience there is so much that leads up to that one final piece. I love reading interviews of designers for that reason, getting the inside scoop on their inspiration and influences that leads them to produce the work that they do. Here are a few designers that interest me and great interviews done by other people, that… hell… I wish I would have gotten to do them myself.

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Think more, design less.

Many desperate acts of design (including gradients, drop shadows, and the gratuitous use of transparency) are perpetrated in the absence of a strong concept. A good idea provides a framework for design decisions, guiding the work.

-Ellen Lupton, Thinking with Type

When recently making a comment on twitter regarding my RSS reader I had several people ask me to recommend some “good blogs”. The thing is, I go through phases, I have way too many tabs full to the brim in my netvibes and I have this compulsive morning ritual of going through and artfully clicking the crap out of them. I like feeds that update , but not TOO often. I like a nice mix of deep thought and inspiration. Depending on the season I have a different rhythm to this dance I do over coffee and cereal…sometimes bagels or corn muffins. Man, I love corn muffins. Here are 5 feeds I am into right now…

Black White Bliss
I recently stumbled upon this feed by accident, and while it does not update too often it has a lot of really interesting design-y things all sharing a similar color scheme. I really love black and white.. websites, clothing, photos… and here are tons of things that will all match. »RSS feed
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