Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.
– Roy T. Bennett
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An all-time classic: The ten principles of good design by Dieter Rams, the legendary German industrial designer, famous for designing Braun’s most iconic products.
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Productivity is really about what you don’t do.— Jocelyn K. Glei
Every time you switch your focus from one thing to another, there’s something called a switch-cost. You’re not able to think as deeply on something when you’re being distracted every few minutes. And thinking deeply is where real insights come from.
— Dr. Earl Miller, professor of neuroscience at M.I.T.
“Throw all the stuff from your kitchen “junk” drawer into an empty box. Leave the box next to the kitchen for a month. Whenever you need something out of the box, put it back in the drawer. Things that are still in the box a month later, you probably won’t ever need again.”
– Peter Walsh, Australian-American professional organizer
We wanted to make the best for the most for the least.”
— Charles and Ray Eames
Base Design Studio’s Thierry Brunfaut has released a series of typographic design advice posters, each of which was created in no more than five minutes.
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“Experiences become a part of our identity. We are not our possessions, but we are the accumulation of everything we’ve seen, the things we’ve done, and the places we’ve been.”
Excerpt from “You Should Spend Your Money on Experiences, Not Things” by Travis Bradberry
Lettering by my favorite Jessica Hische. There is actually a chocolate version of this, for the Dove Chocolate campaign by BBDO.
A problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
— John Steinbeck