Category: Notes
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A 2014 goal
This year, I’d love to get my screen time to less than half of my waking hours. I’m defining screens as phone, computer, and TV. (Also, podcasts on my commute, which aren’t a screen, but you know.) It’s crazy that we live in a society where that’s a goal, and one where achieving it might…
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How to win at being a designer
And here, without much ado, are three qualities I recommend cultivating for any designer (but especially those working in-house). — Be Funny. To be funny is to be surprising, and a good designer should be able to surprise. Being funny doesn’t make you a good designer, but it does mean that your mind works a…
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I need to be less productive. (Spoiler alert: That’s not a humblebrag.)
One of the perks of my job is that I have access to pretty amazing people. Today, for example, I got to take a half hour away from my desk to swing downstairs and talk design with Darhil Crooks, Creative Director for The Atlantic. He does work like this: I admire a lot about Darhil’s…
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If I’m being honest, I don’t really think of myself as a nerd…
But then I spend two hours without glancing up from my computer, working straight through lunch, forgetting to hit “play” on my music, because I’m matching RGB swatches to CMYK values, and rounding both to the nearest 5 for a self-initiated brand book. So yeah, I’m a huge nerd.