Permission To Suck

Talking with Design Thinker: David Burney, Part I

Monday, November 30, 2009

Many of us are heartbroken. We love artifacts of design: the photo, the logo, the brochure, the packaging. As uncomfortable as change feels, our economy has moved away from industry or information and into ideas. Design thinking has replaced designing artifacts as the focus of our creative industry. In part I of the interview for PermissionToSuck.com, NewKind.com CEO David Burney begins to explain how he thinks design is changing.

Keith “KK” Barrett – World Designer

Monday, October 5, 2009

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Good advice for marketers: When designing worlds, leave an impression that will surround the characters in the foreground, they carry their world with them. Keith KK Barrett talks about production design.

Henri Cartier-Bresson: “I’m an Anarchist”

Thursday, September 24, 2009

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"Photography is not like painting. It is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative," he said. "Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever."

“Design is not solemn” – Paula Scher

Thursday, September 17, 2009

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In 1948 America added a future iconic graphic designer to the population: Paula Scher. Most would recognize her work from her years with CBS and Atlantic Records in the ‘70’s before her move to Time Inc. She later shingled her own design firm – Koppel & Sher and since 1991 has been a design leader at the NYC office of Pentagram Design Consultancy.

CrowdSpring Design – good, bad, or ugly

Monday, August 31, 2009

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CrowdSpring.com is a site that connects crowdsourced design projects with those who are willing to do the work on spec. - which means, do the work with no guarantee of payment. In fact, the odds are that you won't see any money at all. Crowd Spring is no healthier to the Design industry than iStock Photo is to the professional photo industry but it's a fairly ingenious way to harvest the long tail of design. Crowd sourcing has become the public option for media services. PTS in no way endorses CrowdSpring; we're officially neutral but welcome all comments.

SXSW Spec Work Discussion – Video

Friday, August 28, 2009

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SXSW Panel Video - Just as iStock photo invaded the stock photography market, other companies are harvesting amateurs in design, video production, or practically every creative service that can be commoditized.

Emotion in Design – David Carson – Video

Thursday, August 27, 2009

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In this video from 2003 (well worth the 20 minutes), David Carson touches on one of my favorite creative topics: the communication of emotion through creativity. We feel before we think. Ignore how design, photography, music, art or whatever you create effects the outside world emotionally and your success is an accident.