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Robin Smail.@thedougco I have not, these are very good! Thanks for passing them along. :-) I really like #8 http://bit.ly/z4aC
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Michiel Daalmans'You can only work for people you like' en 9 andere waardevolle lessen van Milton Glaser http://ow.ly/6eRau (via @gijshoofs) #design
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Jeffrey LanghamEvery few months, I reread Milton Glaser's "Ten Things I Have Learned" – today's that kind of day http://j.mp/nBNszB
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I believe drawing changes the brain in the same way as the search to create the right note changes the brain of a violinist. Drawing also makes you attentive. It makes you pay attention to what you are looking at, which is not so easy.
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OU LIKE.
This is a curious rule and it took me a long time to learn because in fact at the beginning of my practice I felt the opposite. Professionalism required that you didn’t particularly like the people that you worked for or at least maintained an -
IF YOU HAVE A CHOICE NEVER HAVE A JOB.
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SOME PEOPLE ARE TOXIC AVOID THEM.
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PROFESSIONALISM IS NOT ENOUGH or THE GOOD IS THE ENEMY OF THE GREAT
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Professionalism does not allow for that because transgression has to encompass the possibility of failure and if you are professional your instinct is not to fail, it is to repeat success. So professionalism as a lifetime aspiration is a limited goal.
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Chris Pultz1 - YOU CAN ONLY WORK FOR PEOPLE THAT YOU LIKE.2 - IF YOU HAVE A CHOICE NEVER HAVE A JOB.3 - SOME PEOPLE ARE TOXIC AVOID THEM.4 - PROFESSIONALISM IS NOT ENOUGH orTHE GOOD IS THE ENEMY OF THE GREAT.5 - LESS IS NOT NECESSARILY MORE.6 - STYLE IS NOT TO BE TRUSTED.7 - HOW YOU LIVE CHANGES YOUR BRAIN.8 - DOUBT IS BETTER THAN CERTAINTY.9 - ON AGING.10 - TELL THE TRUTH.
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STYLE IS NOT TO BE TRUSTED.
I think this idea first occurred to me when I was looking at a marvellous etching of a bull by Picasso. It was an illustration for a story by Balzac called The Hidden Masterpiece. I am sure that you all know it. It is a bull that is expressed in 12 different styles going from very naturalistic version of a bull to an absolutely reductive single line abstraction and everything else along the way. What is clear just from looking at this single print is that style is irrelevant. In every one of these cases, from extreme abstraction to acute naturalism they are extraordinary regardless of the style. It’s absurd to be loyal to a style.
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YOU CAN ONLY WORK FOR PEOPLE THAT YOU LIKE.
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I discovered that all the work I had done that was meaningful and significant came out of an affectionate relationship with a client.
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IF YOU HAVE A CHOICE NEVER HAVE A JOB.
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For me, it has always been the same every since the age of 12. I wake up in the morning and I try to figure out how am I going to put bread on the table today? It is the same at 75, I wake up every morning and I think how am I going to put bread on the table today? I am exceedingly well prepared for my old age’ he said.
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SOME PEOPLE ARE TOXIC AVOID THEM.
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Perls proposed that in all relationships people could be either toxic or nourishing towards one another.
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You have spent some time with this person, either you have a drink or go for dinner or you go to a ball game. It doesn’t matter very much but at the end of that time you observe whether you are more energised or less energised.
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If you have more energy you have been nourished. The test is almost infallible and I suggest that you use it for the rest of your life.
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‘Just enough is more.’
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HOW YOU LIVE CHANGES YOUR BRAIN.
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DOUBT IS BETTER THAN CERTAINTY.
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Deeply held beliefs of any kind prevent you from being open to experience, which is why I find all firmly held ideological positions questionable.
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Of course we must know the difference between scepticism and cynicism because cynicism is as much a restriction of one’s openness to the world as passionate belief is.
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One of the signs of a damaged ego is absolute certainty.
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‘It doesn’t matter that what you think. Follow this rule and it will add decades to your life. It does not matter if you are late or early, if you are here or there, if you said it or didn’t say it, if you are clever or if you were stupid. If you were having a bad hair day or a no hair day or if your boss looks at you cockeyed or your boyfriend or girlfriend looks at you cockeyed, if you are cockeyed. If you don’t get that promotion or prize or house or if you do – it doesn’t matter.’
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‘it doesn’t matter.
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TELL THE TRUTH.
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arobertRule 1, You Can Only Work for People that you Like is a fascinating insight. Need to give it some thought. The rest is also pretty impressive.
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david stongExcellent read #2 IF YOU HAVE A CHOICE NEVER HAVE A JOB. and other insights gained over a lifetime of commercial art.
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DOUBT IS BETTER THAN CERTAINTY.
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One of the signs of a damaged ego is absolute certainty.
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‘ Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.
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paulocoimbraDicas essencias para a construção de uma boa carreira. Ensaio de Milton Glaser para a AIGA. Dica do eduardo.rocque
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Tyler Britt"And the important thing that I can tell you is that there is a test to determine whether someone is toxic or nourishing in your relationship with them. Here is the test: You have spent some time with this person, either you have a drink or go for dinner
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STYLE IS NOT TO BE TRUSTED.
I think this idea first occurred to me when I was looking at a marvellous etching of a bull by Picasso. It was an illustration for a story by Balzac called The Hidden Masterpiece. I am sure that you all know it. It is a bull that is expressed in 12 different styles going from very naturalistic version of a bull to an absolutely reductive single line abstraction and everything else along the way. What is clear just from looking at this single print is that style is irrelevant. In every one of these cases, from extreme abstraction to acute naturalism they are extraordinary regardless of the style. It’s absurd to be loyal to a style. It does not deserve your loyalty. I must say that for old design professionals it is a problem because the field is driven by economic consideration more than anything else. Style change is usually linked to economic factors, as all of you know who have read Marx. Also fatigue occurs when people see too much of the same thing too often. So every ten years or so there is a stylistic shift and things are made to look different. Typefaces go in and out of style and the visual system shifts a little bit. If you are around for a long time as a designer, you have an essential problem of what to do. I mean, after all, you have developed a vocabulary, a form that is your own. It is one of the ways that you distinguish yourself from your peers, and establish your identity in the field. How you maintain your own belief system and preferences becomes a real balancing act. The question of whether you pursue change or whether you maintain your own distinct form becomes difficult. We have all seen the work of illustrious practitioners that suddenly look old-fashioned or, more precisely, belonging to another moment in time. -
Thought changes our life and our behaviour. I also believe that drawing works in the same way. I am a great advocate of drawing, not in order to become an illustrator, but because I believe drawing changes the brain in the same way as the search to create the right note changes the brain of a violinist. Drawing also makes you attentive. It makes you pay attention to what you are looking at, which is not so easy.
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Of course we must know the difference between scepticism and cynicism because cynicism is as much a restriction of one’s openness to the world as passionate belief is.
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And then in a very real way, solving any problem is more important than being right. There is a significant sense of self-righteousness in both the art and design world. Perhaps it begins at school. Art school often begins with the Ayn Rand model of the single personality resisting the ideas of the surrounding culture. The theory of the avant garde is that as an individual you can transform the world, which is true up to a point. One of the signs of a damaged ego is absolute certainty.
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Iris Murdoch in her obituary. It read ‘ Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.
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Everyone interested in licensing our field might note that the reason licensing has been invented is to protect the public not designers or clients
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Lux VitaeYOU CAN ONLY WORK FOR PEOPLE THAT YOU LIKE.
IF YOU HAVE A CHOICE NEVER HAVE A JOB.
SOME PEOPLE ARE TOXIC AVOID THEM.
PROFESSIONALISM IS NOT ENOUGH or THE GOOD IS THE ENEMY OF THE GREAT.
LESS IS NOT NECESSARILY MORE.
STYLE IS NOT TO BE TRUSTED.
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