September 2011
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You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place, I told him, like...
– Azar Nafisi
August 2011
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December 2010
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The Banyan Tree
Most of us remember someone who opened a door in our minds. ‘Why are you drawing the tree like that?’ queried the art teacher. I said I didn’t know but that was how I felt like doing it. He asked why I felt like doing it like that. I confessed I didn’t know. ‘You should,’ he said, ‘otherwise how can you really draw the tree?’ I still didn’t...
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Donna Wilson
November 2010
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The result of a mystical experience like a Llama...
Trying to explain how to ride a bicycle is notoriously difficult. The same distance lies between experience and theory in describing the design process. To my mind defining design as problem solving smacks more routine work than creative thinking.
They treat them as a personal challenge and so if someone asks how they came up with an idea you’ll probably hear what the designer thinks you...
October 2010
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August 2010
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As I write this now, it occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we...
– Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things