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Be Brave Playlist
For better or worse, this is my jam. The Unknown – Athlete Run – Snow Patrol Wake Up – Arcade Fire Starlight – Muse Livin’ on a Prayer – Bon Jovi All You Need is Love – The Beatles Rest – Parts & Labor Vagabond – Wolfmother More Than a Feeling – Boston What Is…
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Be Brave
Photo credit: sarahingreece
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UX originality from USA Today
USA Today has been getting a lot of design attention lately due to their updated logo by Wolff Olins, with some calling a Microsoft-like cop-out, and others praising its Metro-inspired simplicity. (As an aside, can I just say that I love the fact that “Microsoft” and “design” are being used in the same sentence so…
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Why “Cars 2” broke the Pixar brand (maybe forever)
(Image borrowed from the WSJ article linked within this post.) While I’m talking about expensive brand errors, Disney/Pixar’s Cars 2 doesn’t exactly fit the mold — yet. As the WSJ article reports, merchandise sales of the animated sequel were through the roof before the movie even opened, and I have no reason to even begin…
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A brighter, peppier, more integrated future
Articles like Brave new work: the office of tomorrow (Fortune/CNN Money) leave me feeling really depressed for some reason. “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.” –Thoreau “If I had an orchard, I’d work till I’m sore And you would wait tables and soon run…