Become a Globetrotting Designer – Design Droplets ‘Me and My iPhone‘ – The Johnson Bank’s Thought of the Week I totally agree on this. The number of times I’ve been spell-corrected, when I don’t need it, drove me nuts so much so that my spell-check is now turned ‘OFF’ ‘Checkmate.‘ – BMW to Audi Brilliant, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'design ducky reads'
TED talk – Jacek Utko designs to save newspapers
April 15th, 2009 · No Comments · design ducky reads, inspiration
I love the talks from TED (stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design). They’re so engaging and feature so many great and inspiration speakers from all over the world talking about subjects ranging from experimental technology that could be part of our world in the future to thoughts on the human psyche. Do check out their “Design [...]
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Promoting brand “YOU”
April 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment · design ducky reads, inspiration
Recently I have been thinking very much about the topic of self-promotion; in fact I had a draft post dated September 2007 on the said topic. As practising designers this is one thing that never escapes your mind. It is important to be able to promote yourself effectively not only because you can land the [...]
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How to Motivate Creative People – a good (and free) read!
April 5th, 2009 · No Comments · design ducky reads, inspiration
Stumbled upon this interesting e-book, titled “How to Motivate Creative People“, that makes for a good read if you are dealing with creative people. The author, Mark McGuinness actually wrote them as a series of blog posts and the book is actually a combination of all the posts in one with a few extra bits [...]
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the design ducky surfed onto…
September 28th, 2007 · No Comments · design ducky reads
interaction design pattern library via swissmiss a collection of various types of interaction design, with a pretty detailed description and pictorial examples. good for reference purposes. advertising/design goodness compilation of both print and media advertising from all over the world. how much to charge for design? this is one tough question indeed… there are a [...]
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creative caffeine
September 25th, 2007 · No Comments · design ducky reads, inspiration
i went to the bookstore just yesterday to pick up this book, “caffeine for the creative mind” by stephan mumaw and wendy lee oldfield. the book was not at the design section (as i had initially thought), but it was under self-help, together with a couple of books on creativity and innovation. being a person [...]
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bannerblog
September 25th, 2007 · No Comments · design, design ducky reads, inspiration
wow… just stumbled upon bannerblog (was sent a link to a banner from my alma mater) and the first banner on the root page had me interacting with it for a good five minutes (i gotta get the coffee beans out!!). set up by two aussie creatives, the site serves more as a repository and [...]
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the design ducky surfed onto…
September 17th, 2007 · No Comments · design ducky reads
just for the start of the week… 80 classic and beautiful typefaces – great reference from the folks at Smashing Magazine from the familiar (helvetica) to those that you might not have heard of (Olga?), the fonts on this page are a great reference for lovers of typography. would you buy these cards? let the [...]
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