Design is an iterative process of learning, exploring, prototyping, testing and refining.
Michelle Berryman
Fast Company’s 50 Most Influential Designers in America(click image for full article) 

Fast Company’s 50 Most Influential Designers in America
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This is a brand-new kind of American dream, one that mixes design, technology, and fresh business models.

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Jack White on Creativity

“Inspiration and creativity, they ride right next to one another…Not everyday are you going to wake up, the clouds are gonna part and the rays are gonna come down…sometimes you gotta just get in there and force yourself to work and maybe something good will come out of it.”

From the documentary called Under Great White Northern Lights.


Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, that’s creativity.
Charles Mingus

The End of Client Services

Great blog post by Khoi Vinh (@Khoi) the former design director at NYTimes.com and why he has decided to create a better user experience as opposed to the traditional design service model.

Varsity Bookmarking: Dear Graphic and Web Designers, please understand that there are greater opportunities available to you.

pieratt:

You have an inherent need to solve problems, visually and conceptually. There is enormous value in this, but you may be misplacing your talents.

The internet, at this time in history, is the greatest client assignment of all time. The Western world is porting itself over to the web in mind and…

RT @the99percent: Searching for Professional Significance: http://cot.ag/om6kG6

Branding Is About Creating Patterns, Not Repeating Messages

Branding Is About Creating Patterns, Not Repeating Messages

Creativity thrives on a consistent diet of challenges and opportunities, which are often one and the same.
Lee Clow’s Beard