Ceramics have had a renaissance lately–there’s Spanish surrealist designer Jaime Hayon’s work for the venerable porcelain manufacturer Lladró, Atelier NL’s gorgeous locally-sourced Drawn From Clay series, or Vienna’s 250-year-old Augarten porcelain factory partnering with new-school designers like Marei Wollersberger.
As funky as those projects look, they’re all made with traditional methods. Today’s ceramics might look cool, [...]
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A few weeks past, NPR had an interesting story about Chrysler going after a Florida High School for using a logo very close to the Chrysler Ram. What they forgot to mention is that the school’s logo in question is exactly the same as Chrysler’s.
Someone obviously got the piece of art (either legally or downloaded [...]
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Here’s how I make stuff.
I’ve used this technique to launch multi-million-dollar software projects, write books, plan vacations, work in teams, work solo, and write a blog. All are projects that ship on time.
1) The first step is to write down a due date. Post it on the wall. It’s real. You will ship on this [...]
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How can I explain the never-ending irrationality of human behavior?
We say we want one thing, then we do another. We say we want to be successful but we sabotage the job interview. We say we want a product to come to market, but we sandbag the shipping schedule. We say we want to be thin [...]
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Back in 1999, four lanky young men went on bizarre road trip that culminated at the dingy Big Texan Steak Ranch, seated at a red checkered table on a stumpy wooden stage. The ridiculously large timer behind them was set and they dove in—attempting to choke down a 72 oz steak and fixings in 60 [...]
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