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  • I’m interested in breaking down the process of showing off a final product, and in how other designers communicate the value of their work. The design of this menu for Italian restaurant Marco Marco helps illuminate what I mean. Here, the raw materials are shown next to one another in a pleasing aesthetic display. The reader…

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  • Loved the single-page on snoring. It’s an infographic that handles cliches in a way that made me smile. As a snorer myself, I’m a sucker for any advice or remedies people have. Unfortunately, most of it’s total snake oil.  I’ve un-blurred enough of the text on this page to show how a poor colour choice…

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  • Clever “yes” in the background (it’s actually much easier to see when everything is blurred). I did think “hey, this is clever” more than “hey, this helped me understand the point of the text”, though.  It’s pretty tough to photograph a table and light and try to make it attractive. It takes up a ton…

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  • Always Move Forward

    This is stable advice. It doesn’t matter what industry you work in. It doesn’t matter what you do. It doesn’t matter if you’re in grade 1 or teaching grade 1. You have to keep learning. You have to keep adapting. You have to always move forward. Technology will advance. Your competitors will advance. Industries that…

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  • It’s March, 2013. Here’s what I use to get stuff done.Computer: Acer S7 Since November 2012 I purchased the S7 last November, switching to Windows 8 after 7 straight years of Mac use. I was ready to try something new, and the S7 is the perfect mix of lightweight portability, touch-friendliness, and horsepower. It never…

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  • Brett Kelley of Bridging the Nerd Gap recently wrote this article: Why I Use Instapaper (and not Evernote) For Reading Stuff Later. In it, he explains in great detail his preference for Instapaper, while at the same time defending Evernote for doing other things incredibly well. It’s an opinion I share, but I can see where…

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  • Merlin Mann (60:08): I’ve been so inspired over the years by people who felt just perfectly out of my reach. Far enough out of my reach that it pushed me forward, but near enough that if I do this thing really well, this person might not hate me. In any field of the arts, it’s…

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  • I get really nostalgic for stuff that, when I think about it, didn’t exactly impact my life in heavy ways.  Although it’s probably common enough, I’m more nostalgic about products, fictional characters, and moments in another person’s published narrative than I am about actual occurrences in my life.  This is used for evil by companies…

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  • Late last week, news broke that my favourite email client Sparrow had been purchased by Google. The notice came with some grim news about Sparrow, namely, that it wouldn’t receive any new updates outside of patches and bug fixes. This morning, I uninstalled Sparrow and configured Apple’s Mail app as my default client. Why did I…

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  • ePub is great. There are more and more text editors and layout apps that export to it than ever. There are more devices out there that read it than ever. More and more, when I share rough drafts of my work, I share it in ePub. That’s because I don’t really know anyone who doesn’t…

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