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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TED talk – Jacek Utko designs to save newspapers
April 15th, 2009 · No Comments · design ducky reads, inspiration
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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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Come-in: Interior Design as a Contemporary Art Medium in Germany
March 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment · inspiration, singapore
I have been meaning to check out this exhibition at the Singapore National Museum since last week but only managed to get myself moving and off to the museum today. This is the second time in past year or so that I’ve stepped into the place (the first was to check out the ‘Greek Masterpieces [...]
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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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faveup
July 25th, 2007 · No Comments · design, inspiration
amidst the web surfing that i’ve been doing, just stumbled upon this today… the folks over at freelanceswitch.com (a great resource for freelancers all over the world) has just come up with a pretty cool inspiration gallery called ‘fave up‘. in there you can find namecards, logos and websites that will make you go ‘damn.. [...]
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