The Art of Money by Yordan Silvera
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Another amazing student project that looks at the art in paper currencies around the world. Fantastic idea gorgeously executed.
Paula Scher on Failure
/You have to get bad in order to get good. You have to try a lot of things and fail in order to make the next discovery.
That works in a short-term methodology when you’re just working on a specific project, but also long-term in terms of a whole career. I find I make big discoveries and I make huge leaps and then I repeat myself and I’ll be known for what I did—I’ll get the acclaim for the breakthrough—and that elevates everyone’s expectation of who I am and what I’m supposed to do, and I will repeat that because it has become successful.
And I will repeat it and repeat it until it provokes my utter failure because I’m going along doing exactly what I did. And it’s very hard to make the breakthrough because in order to make the breakthrough again, to go up again, you either have to fail or be unqualified for a job where you don’t know what you’re doing, where you make honest mistakes because that’s how you learn. And that success is its own guarantee of failure.
Rework Illustrations on Flicker
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All the illustrations from the book ‘Rework’ by Jason Fried are available as a flicker set. Great collection, brilliant thoughts disguised as common sense in black and white illustrations. The book: http://bit.ly/afgZP0
Great Designers Steal by Jeff Veen
/The question is what do you do with what you’ve stolen.
Ken Robinson Talks About How To Be In Your Element
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A recent speech by Ken Robinson at the Royal Society for the Arts. His book “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything” is a great resource full of anecdotes and words of wisdom concerning how you respond to your natural talents and passions.