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such a sweet website too
“Based on what you’ve told us so far, we’re playing this next track because we know your secret, and we’re thinking about telling your wife. Maybe it’s worth upgrading your subscription so she’ll never find out.
If you choose not to pay, you won’t be able to stop us from telling her. You also won’t be able to stop us from continuing to play this track, since you’ve already skipped too many songs in the past hour. Skipping an unlimited number of songs is a benefit available exclusively to our paid subscribers.”
— The Growing Creepiness of Pandora’s Music Recommendations
“In order to arrive at a personal style, you have to have a technique to begin with. In other words, when I say that style is a special case of technique, you have to have the technique — you have to have a place to make the choices from. If you don’t have a basis on which to make the choice, then you don’t have a style at all. You have a series of accidents.” — “You practice and you get better. It’s very simple,” iconic composer Philip Glass famously said.
(Source: wbur.org, via curiositycounts)
“Bierut’s essay, which distinguishes between process- and portfolio-based schools (“Swiss” versus “slick”), remains a sobering plea to designers and teachers to improve design education through cultural literacy. Many themes still hold true, and a few others are in desperate need of updating.” — Why Designers Still Can’t Think
Metropolis II
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List of inventors killed by their own inventions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia -
This is why Wikipedia is better than Encyclopedia Britannica.
“There is indeed a common trait in the typical way creative thinkers approach challenges: They can comfortably hold opposing thoughts in their heads and get to work. At times, this trait can be misconstrued as “the magic of creativity” and especially in the design field I frown when I hear that label because it reveals a preconception that designers are industrial artists that purely rely on their intuition to give shape to their solutions. Not so.” —
The Truth: Creativity Comes From Blending Dissonant Goals Into Radical Harmony
Collaboration vs Solitude isn’t the dichotomy that seems to have been the de jour talk over the last two weeks. Any form of work takes multiple methods to get to an end. The real challenge is how ideas are communicated no matter how ideation happens.