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After many wonderful postings here on Blogger, I have moved my site to www.debbiemillman.com. Thank you for visiting!Please join me!: )

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I am thrilled to announce that New York Times Columnist (and author of one of my favorite books on branding) Rob Walker invited me to join him and project partner Joshua Glenn to participate in their Significant Objects project. Paraphrased from their website, the task is as follows: invite a writer to invent a story about an object. Invested with new significance by this fiction, the object

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In case you haven't checked out my swanky new website (designed by Armin Vit), I am very excited about all the wonderful coverage of my new book, Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Life and Design!Here are some of the recent reviews:THE NEW YORKERA full review and a slide show can be found here.NEW YORK MAGAZINENew York Magazine included the book in the "Brilliant/Highbrow"

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Lovely Look Both Ways book party photos by Brent Taylor here!

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Please check out the new website for my book, Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Life and Design, at www.debbiemillman.com.Thank you, as always!-debbie

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Debbie Millman, Hillman Curtis and Richard Wildeinvite you to the taping of the Design Matters Television PilotDecember 11, 20099:00am-6:00pmDebbie will be interviewing legendary designers Milton Glaser and Stefan Sagmeisterin front of a live, studio audienceSchool of Visual Arts Theater333 West 23rd StreetNew York CityTaping Schedule:9-1: Debbie's monologues2-6: Interviews with Milton and Stefan

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I am so thrilled to announce that New York Magazine has included my brand new book, Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Life and Design, in this week's Approval Matrix. I couldn't be prouder. I have been reading NY Magazine for 26 years (!!!) and it has always been a favorite read. Even more so now! : )In a few short weeks, www.debbiemillman.com is going to turn into a site

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My remarks at the 6th Annual AIGA Design Legends Gala, honoring medalists Carin Goldberg, Doyald Young and Pablo Ferro, Corporate Leaders Patagonia and Jet Blue, the AIGA Fellows and the Worldstudio Scholarship recipients, held on September 17th, 2009 at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City.Several years ago, when working on a book about how designers think, I was challenged by an enormously

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Wells Beach, 2009. Big Beautiful Waves, My Kite, A Rainbow.

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I am so pleased to announce that my entire archive of Design Matters—all 100 episodes—are now available on the redesigned Design Observer. The shows will live on Observer Media, one of Design Observer's new channels. This is the first time the shows have one aggregated home, and I am thrilled to have them all accessible in one place. Here is some info from the Design Observer site:My first new

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The 2009 AIGA Leadership Retreat in Portland, Oregon.

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My junior high school years, or what is now referred to as middle school, were the worst years of my life. It was the late ‘70s and blue eye shadow and Farrah Fawcett hair were all the rage. I wasn’t allowed to wear make-up back then, and my hair looked nothing like the pin-up queen’s: it was dirty dishwater blonde and frizzy and it looked more like the hair sported by the character Cameron Diaz

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Design Matters began in February of 2005 with an idea and a telephone line. Mostly, I started out doing it for myself--I thought it would be a great way to ask my heroes everything I wanted to know about their lives and their thoughts and their careers without seeming stalker-y. In the process, I gleaned the most magnificent view of some of the greatest design thinkers and practitioners of our

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I love almost everything about New York City. I love the intensity of the pace, the diversity of the people, the street signs, even the noise. When I first moved here, I was in my twenties. I’d spend endless hours sitting in the windows of cafes on Hudson Street, listening to blues at Dan’s on Second Avenue and trying to pick up boys at 2am on the rooftop of Danceteria. I always went home by

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Today is my 14th anniversary working at Sterling Brands. A lot has changed since my first day on the job, but one consistent thread has been my fascination with the mysterious connection that exists between consumers and the brands they buy. I love that the discipline of design I work on requires understanding those consumers—those people—and includes analyzing how they think and how they choose

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Joining me today on the 98th broadcast of Design Matters with Debbie Millman is Allan Chochinov.Allan Chochinov is a partner of Core77, a New York-based design network serving a global community of designers and design enthusiasts. He is the editor-in-chief of Core77.com, the widely read design website, Coroflot.com design job and portfolio site, and DesignDirectory.com design firm database. He

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I am doing a Live Webinar TODAY with Print Magazine at 4:00 p.m. EST! It is titled Why We Buy, Why We Brand, and I hope you can join us.More info can be found here.

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I am very excited to announce that Design Matters was nominated as BEST PODCAST in the 2009 Blogger's Choice Awards! How exciting is that? According to the site, the Blogger's Choice Awards are the most popular user-generated blog voting site on the planet! So, if you have a moment to spare, and you are so inclined, would you consider voting for me, please? All the info is here.THANK YOU!: )

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I am thrilled to have an article featured on The Dieline today! About the site: Established in 2007 by Andrew Gibbs, The Dieline is dedicated to the progress of the package design industry and its practitioners, students and enthusiasts. Its purpose is to define and promote the world’s best examples of packaging, and provide a place where the package design community can review, critique and stay

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I started smoking the summer I was 30 years old. I was newly divorced and madly in love with an Englishman addicted to Marlboro Reds. Together we’d sit in outdoor cafes, intertwining our legs and I’d steal the cigarette from his lips. I felt glamorous surrounded by dissipating swirls of smoke and comforted by the potential of this exotic new persona. It took me a while to truly get the hang of it

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Joining me today on the 97th broadcast of Design Matters with Debbie Millman is Daniel H. Pink.Dan Pink is an entrepreneur, speaker and author of three grounding breaking books on the changing world of work. His latest, “The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need,” is as entertaining as it is practical for anyone searching for career fulfillment. His previous books – “

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In all of the years that I have been employed, one of my all-time favorites jobs was working as a cashier in a supermarket. Because I am an exceedingly noisy person, this occupation gave me free reign to survey and take measure all of the items people purchased and took into their homes. There was Bruce, the man who owned an office furniture company and who was married to a red headed artist

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Joining me today on Design Matters with Debbie Millman is Dan Formosa.Daniel Formosa, Ph.D. is a consultant in product design and research. Dan’s education includes design, ergonomics and biomechanics. He has received numerous design awards and his work has been selected for national and international exhibits. Dan was a member of the design team that developed IBM’s first personal computer, OXO

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I'll be at the 14th Annual San Diego AIGA Y Conference March 26-28!From the conference website: The most important natural resource the world needs right now is creative energy; the force that develops ideas, discovers solutions and pushes business forward. During times of dramatic change, creative thinkers have always seized the opportunity to design the future; and now it's your moment to shine

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My first job after college paid me $6 an hour. I was doing what would now be considered “old school” paste-up and layout for a fledging cable magazine, and because I enjoyed it so much I couldn’t believe that I was actually getting paid to do this very special thing that I loved. I never wanted to leave the office; I was the first person in every morning, and I happily stayed way into the night.

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Joining me today on Design Matters with Debbie Millman is Gong Szeto.Gong Szeto recently served as the Director of Design and Product Design at PEAK6 Investments, LP, a proprietary equity options trading firm, hedge fund, and new financial services business incubator based in Chicago. He recently designed OptionsHouse, a next-generation retail equity options brokerage, garnering top in category

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This is the cover of my forthcoming book, "Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Life and Design." The amazing Rodrigo Corral designed it. The book will be out in late October, 2009. It is a collection of fully illustrated essays created by me and Rodrigo and it all about the intersection of graphic design, love, life, behavior, rituals, brands, perceptions, music, art, and

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After several months of winter neglect, I recently scheduled an afternoon of beauty at my neighborhood nail salon. I treated myself to a manicure, a pedicure, an eyebrow wax and a ten-minute backrub in an upright massage chair. Though I was looking forward to being pampered, I was rather embarrassed by my unruliness. I hadn’t been taking particularly good care of myself; my hands and feet were

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Joining me today on a very special broadcast of Design Matters with Debbie Millman is Patrick Coyne with special guests Milton Glaser and Cheryl Heller!Patrick Coyne is editor and designer of Communication Arts. Prior to joining CA in 1986, Coyne studied at the California College of the Arts, worked for Michael Mabry Design and SBG Partners and established the multi-discipline, San

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Joining me today on Design Matters with Debbie Millman is the super-fabulous Natalia Ilyin.Natalia Ilyin is a design critic, a teacher, and a practitioner. As a critic, she's been called "outspoken" and "irreverent." But her irreverence stands on a firm foundation: her students read Aristotle, Thomas Carlyle and Carl Jung. A full-time practitioner, she's co-founder of the Seattle brand

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For the first time ever, Design Matters will have a very special guest host, the incredible Nate Voss. He will be interviewing the legendary Joe Duffy.One of the most respected and sought after creative directors and thought leaders on branding and design, Joe Duffy has led award winning branding efforts for some highly admired companies including Aveda, Coca-Cola, Jack in the Box, Sony, Sub-Zero

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Joining me today on the Four Year Anniversary of Design Matters with Debbie Millman are Lita Talarico and Steven Heller!Lita Talarico is the co-founder and co-chair (with Steven Heller) of the MFA Design as Author program at the School of Visual Arts. She has spent her career involved with art, architecture and design, and has held leadership positions with three notable institutions of higher

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New York City artist + vigilante, Poster Boy explains the vision behind this persona, the importance of regaining control of your environment and generating change through creative expression. For a good article on Poster Boy, you can go here.

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During the cold and dark Berlin winter days, Christoph Niemann spends a lot of time with his boys in their room. And as he looks at the toys scattered on the floor, his mind inevitably wanders back to New York.The brilliant I LEGO N.Y. is just another example of the brilliance that is Christoph Niemann.

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Our very own national treasure, the masterful and brilliant Maira Kalman is back in the New York Times, and she is better than ever! Her newest column, And the Pursuit of Happiness, a blog about American democracy, will appear on the last Friday of each month. Hallelujah, indeed!

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Drew Friedman's cover for this week's New Yorker is even more brilliant in person. Buy it now, before they run out and you have to get them on ebay (like the New York Times after Election Day)!

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Article 2 (for BHO) from Andrew Sloat on Vimeo.The brilliant Andrew Sloat does it again with this new film.More of his marvelous films can be found here.

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"Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better."--Martin Luther King, Jr.

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At the end of last year, Steve Jones, head of the department of genetics and evolution at London’s University College announced that the forces driving evolution—including natural selection and genetic mutation—no longer play an important role in our lives. He further stated that should man survive a million years from now, they would resemble us: modern-day humans. "We now know so much about

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Image by Neville BrodyNeville Brody, the British designer and art director, has now been at the forefront of graphic design for over two decades. Initially working in record cover design, Brody initially made his name through his revolutionary work as Art Director for the Face magazine. Other international magazine directions have included City Limits, Lei, Per Lui, Actuel and Arena, together

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copyright 2004 Funnypart.comThe current discipline and practice of branding is both obsessively fascinating and shamelessly polarizing. Because our lives are so entwined with brands, it has become difficult to distinguish between our beliefs and our brand preferences. From Apple to Starbucks, from Rachael Ray to Tiger Woods, corporations and individuals alike are immersed in a brand ethos. As a

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From Discover Magazine, one of the top 100 science stories of the year is a most remarkable motion pictures that lasts just 3 seconds—and that’s after it has been slowed down a billion billion times. The film documents an electron in motion the instant after it was booted from an atom by an ultraviolet pulse. Created by an international team of physicists, the movie is the first of its

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I often fantasize about what might have been, but isn’t. What my life might have been like if I had been accepted to the journalism school I’d applied to in 1985 or the art program I hoped to attend in 1992. I sometimes imagine what might have been if my first marriage hadn’t fallen apart, or the second. I will never really know, but I imagine that self a very different self, with shorter hair

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Joining me as we resume Season Five of Design Matters with Debbie Millman on Friday, January 9th at 3 PM, is designer, author, educator and theorist Jessica Helfand.Jessica Helfand is partner. with William Drenttel, in Winterhouse, a design studio in Northwest Connecticut. Their work focuses on publishing and editorial development; new media; and cultural, educational and literary institutions.

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“Rewind City,” which promotes a French DVR service, plays the metaphor out literally: Crowds around the woman begin to move backward. A bus arrives, and with it the woman’s lover. Then comes the inevitable reunion. The spot was filmed in Goa, India, by Ringan Ledwidge — whose time-twisting Hovis bread ad was another recent Very Short List pick. Like that other miniature movie, “Rewind City”

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The “Stunt” Book "scrapbook" kept by Elinor Moses in the 1920s featured in Jessica Helfand's marvelous new book Scrapbooks: An American HistoryThe final half of Season Five of Design Matters with Debbie Millman launches this Friday, January 9th at 3PM ET on the Voice America Business Network with my esteemed guest: designer, writer and educator Jessica Helfand. Among the many, many things we will

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The magnificent Bon Iver performing Blindsided (from the magnificent album "For Emma, Forever Ago."

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A lovely tune by Will Oldham (a.k.a Bonnie Princy Billy) animated and directed by Mike Aho. Happy New Year, one and all!

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I am so thrilled to be included in the Creativity magazine round-up of top design picks of 2008. The entire article can be found here, and my five choices are below. Hope you enjoy!My text messages from President-Elect Barack Obama during the campaign (Of course I have saved them.) Brian Eno's Bloom application for the iPhone. The Onyx Edition of Scrabble—black and silver tiles! The blue " target

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Emmett BeliveauExecutive DirectorPresidential Inaugural Committee 2009 Washington, D.C. 20599December 18, 2008Dear Mr. Beliveau: I write to express my profound objection to the selection of Rick Warren to perform the invocation at President-elect Obama’s inauguration. Pastor Warren is publicly and rabidly committed to denying same-sex couples the right to civil marriage, and all of the rights and

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The Hotel Cafe has just come out with "Winter Songs," a wonderful compilation of fabulous singer/songwriters. Here is a "making of video" from Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson, for their self-titled tune, and here is a link to their official video, which is adorable, and lush and gorgeous.

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Come join us if you are in town!

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This fabulous video uses line drawings and 50's style diagrams to explain the 10 possible dimensions in existence, concluding with the concept of String Theory at the 11th dimension. It will (literally) rock your world.

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Levi's and Loubouton's!Virginia Postrel, author of The Substance of Style and The Future and it's Enemies interviewed me for her wonderful website Deep Glamour. The interview is here. Hope you enjoy!

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Specimen 198, photograph by Julian MontagueSpecimen 168, photograph by Julian MontagueFrom the Daily Heller:Julian Montague, a designer in Buffalo, New York, is obsessed with shopping carts. He writes on his website: "Over the last several decades, the stray shopping cart has quietly become an integral part of the urban and suburban landscapes of the industrialized world. To the average person,

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Via KottkeAnd another, to "see" how they do it:Humbling.

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Blackboard drawing by Albert EinsteinBlackboard drawing by Cornelia ParkerIt’s hard to compete with Albert Einstein’s calculations. But if you want to see how Brian Eno and other 21st-century luminaries responded to the challenge, visit the Oxford Museum of the History of Science.Setting out to create an exhibit around the museum’s most prized possession — a blackboard full of (relatively) simple

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Via Eric Baker.

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Keith Olbermann's Special Comment of the day, today. Bravo, Keith, bravo.

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AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer Richard Trumka blasts racism and underlines why workers should vote Obama in 2008. This is an excerpt of a speech given at the Steelworkers convention on July 1, 2008. Sponsored by USW President Leo Gerard. Sent to me by my friend Eric Baker.

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By Hart Seely, from Slate.comIt's been barely six weeks since the arctic-fresh voice of Alaskan poet Sarah Heath Palin burst upon the lower 48. In campaign interviews, the governor, mother, and maverick GOP vice presidential candidate has chosen to bypass the media filter and speak directly to fans through her intensely personal verses, spoken poems that drill into the vagaries of modern life as

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From The National ReviewIf at one time women were considered heretical for swimming upstream against feminist orthodoxy, they now face condemnation for swimming downstream — away from Sarah Palin.To express reservations about her qualifications to be vice president — and possibly president — is to risk being labeled anti-woman.Or, as I am guilty of charging her early critics, supporting only a

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See more funny videos at CollegeHumor.

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The Great Schlep from The Great Schlep on Vimeo.

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Watch CBS Videos OnlineGo here if you want to be cheered up: FiveThirtyEight and Michael Seitzman on HuffPo.

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...be back in a bit.

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Essay by the brilliant Eve EnslerSeptember 5, 2008I am having Sarah Palin nightmares. I dreamt last night that she was a member of a club where they rode snowmobiles and wore the claws of drowned and starved polar bears around their necks. I have a particular thing for Polar Bears. Maybe it's their snowy whiteness or their bigness or the fact that they live in the arctic or that I have never seen

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This article and photograph by Edward Ruscha appears in print today, on September 11, 2008, on page A25 of the New York Times.When the 9/11 attacks took place, I thought of this photograph. I’d taken it many years before — on my first visit to New York, in 1961, in fact — but I looked for it anyway. It reminded me of Lower Manhattan, the twin towers, and then, of course, of their absence.he view

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Sarah Palin is due to give her first interview since being named the GOP vice presidential nominee to ABC News' Charles Gibson tomorrow and Friday. Here are a dozen questions she’s yet to answer:1. How much does your religious faith guide your official decision-making?2. Without any foreign policy experience, are you ready to be a heartbeat away from the presidency?3. How would you rate President

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Today, our understanding of the Universe will change.The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a gigantic scientific instrument buried 100 meters below the countryside on the outskirts of Geneva, Switzerland. In it, high-energy protons in two counter-rotating beams will be smashed together in a search for signatures of supersymmetry, dark matter and the origins of mass. This particle accelerator will

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From this important new website:We are writing to you because of the fury and dread we have felt since the announcement of Sarah Palin as the Vice-Presidential candidate for the Republican Party. We believe that this terrible decision has surpassed mere partisanship, and that it is a dangerous farce-on the part of a pandering and rudderless Presidential candidate-that has a real possibility of

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Corpoetics is a collection of ‘found’ poetry from the websites of well-known brands and corporations created by the fabulous Asbury & Asbury. They visited various company websites, found the closest thing to a Corporate Overview, and then set about rearranging the words into poetry.Two marvelous examples:KPMGI am strong.I am vibrant.I am committed to a vision.I am tremendous.I am quality.I will

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Three VMA's, and fastest "comeback" in history. Welcome Back, Brit Brit.

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From the online issue of Vanity Fair comes an awesome timeline.The McCain campaign won’t countenance it, and Barack Obama has even declared it off-limits, but the question of Trig Palin’s parentage—whether his real mom is Sarah Palin or her five-months pregnant, 17-year-old daughter Bristol—has transfixed the blogosphere. To settle the matter once and for all, VF.com presents this handy timeline

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Joshua Cohen, left, of Stanford and Glenn Loury of Brown debate how Sarah Palin's relative inexperience will play out politically." target="_blank">From Bloggingheads: The Palin Ploy

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I am looking forward to the possibility of hearing this during the first VP Debate:Joe Biden to Sarah Palin:Governor, I served with Hillary Clinton: I know Hillary Clinton; Hillary Clinton is a friend of mine. Governor, you're no Hillary Clinton.

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Via the wonderful Kevin Lo.

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A mesmerizing speech from an amazing, historic woman.

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The amazing Virginia Postrel has launched a fabulous new website called DeepGlamour, which explores the magic of glamour in its many manifestations, from movies, fashion, and advertising to real estate, politics, and sports.The intersection of imagination and desire, DeepGlamour is a spinoff of Virginia's research for a book on glamour that she is writing for The Free Press. It is her way to try

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Brilliant illustrator Christoph Niemann and his wife Lisa just finished renovating their new home in Berlin, and they took the opportunity to realize one of Christoph's old artistic dreams: designing the bathrooms with pixel drawings made of classical 4x4 colored tiles. The journey, and the result, is awesome. You might remember how much their sons love the subway, and this is included in one of

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I will be speaking at the Columbus Society of Communicating Arts tonight on Design and Branding! If you are in the area, I hope you will join me.Social Hour: 6:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m.Presentation: 7:30 p.m.–9 p.m.Location: Canzani Center, Columbus College of Art & DesignMembers: $5.00 (Professional + Faculty)Non-Members: $15.00Student Members: FREEStudent Non-Members: $5.00About The Columbus Society

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The masterful Andrew Kuo developed a chart-based music review for The New York Times. New York Magazine then responded with a chart-based review of his review. Just fabulous. (Click each image to see larger)Review in the TimesReview of review in the Times in NY MagazineVia Design Observer, by way of the brilliant Kevin Smith.

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David Byrne, shot by Hillman Curtis Sid, painting by Jeff ScherTwo great new short films are out by two brilliant filmmakers: Jeff Scher and Hillman Curtis.Hillman recently shot a short film with David Bryne and Brian Eno for their new record Everything That Happens Will Happen Today. The film is part of the cool deluxe CD package designed by Stefan Sagmeister!Jeff's film is part of his amazing

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Michael Phelps' amazing victory in the 100-meter butterfly, frame by frame.

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via The Man in Blue by way of the lovely SwissMiss

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Via Eric Baker.

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I was recently added to the mailing list of Eric Baker's daily email. This uber designer's daily email is a veritable treasure trove of images that he has encountered in the last day or so. The emails are HUGE, they clog up my mail box and they are the most imaginative, fascinating, gorgeous emails I have ever gotten. Last week I posted one of the images, and now I am posting two more. Does this

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Please join me in helping Adobe honor the best interactive, motion and video, and traditional media work created by the most talented and promising students from around the world tomorrow night. It is totally free, open to the public and should be amazing!Emcees: The most glamorous girls in the whole world:Bonnie Siegler and Emily Oberman from Number SeventeenPresenters:Browser-based Design

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Photograph by Phillip Toledano, from his amazing portfolio titled "Days With My Father"Last month, two days after my little brother got married, my father went into the hospital for triple-bypass surgery. It was the first time my father has ever gotten "sick" in my entire life. I spent a week with him in the hospital in Albany and another week with him afterward helping out at home, and now I am

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