Process
Graphic designer and painter Paula Scher on how to make something great:
"Less is more and more is more. It's the middle that's not a good place."
"Less is more and more is more. It's the middle that's not a good place."
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Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. It has nothing to do with fixing things. It has nothing to do with standards. Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move ahead. It is a loop—an obsessive, debilitating closed system that causes you to get stuck in the details of what you are writing or painting or making and to lose sight
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I sense there is a shift happening where people are realizing that they are channeling an ambitious impulse - the desire to grow and evolve - into dumb goals. Rejecting legible ambitious might be the most ambitious thing you can do.... See more
A shift from legible ambition (my parents can easily brag about me) to illegible ambition (no one, including me know
Paul Millerd • Losing Yourself, Ambition, Writing, 40k Books, Surrender | #247
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We have a little print shop we set up here so we can work on posters for the office, sticker packs, badges, and just fun little projects. It allows everybody to break out of their day-to-day work and have a little bit of fun, get a bit silly. It keeps us fresh.
blog.wake.com • How Intercom Brings Play Into Their Design Process - Wake
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Like clothes or memes or slang, we try ideas on for a while—put them in shareable graphics, temporarily link them in bio, express them via viral tweet or op-ed, maybe print them on a T-shirt—before putting them aside for something more relevant.
Haley Nahman • #100: New idea trending
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Harry Dry rules for copywriting:
1) A great sentence is a good sentence made shorter.
2) Writing great copy begins with having something to say in the first place.
3) Copy is like food. How it looks matters.
4) Since the look of copy matters so much, don't write copy in Google Docs. Write it in Figma (so you can write and design at the same time).
5) Ka
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