Week 11 – Artifact or Fiction
SteveI have – for lack of a more defined term – a friend called Steve. Steve is an entrepreneur. He is also a trained designer. He started and runs The…
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August 15, 2019
Week Ten – Authereal Beings
I don't know any designer, graphic, product, architectural who doesn't work on personal, self-initiated projects. Sometimes they lead directly to actual jobs or projects, sometimes they are meant as explorations…
August 7, 2019
Week Nine – Just Entre Nous
Did Ray Kroc make a better burger, a better world, or just a bigger profit? Before we get into whether designers are well or even better-suited to entrepreneurship than others…
August 2, 2019
Week 8 – Freedom from Want
The Big Fat Quiz is the best collaboration ever. I am sure it isn't really, not even in my mind, but it serves as a model for my collaboration tool.…
July 25, 2019
Week Seven – Video Killed The Podcast Star
One will weave the canvas; another will fell a tree by the light of his axe. Yet another will forge nails, and there will be others who observe the stars…
July 18, 2019
Week 6 – Interdisciplinary Planetary, Planetary Interpodcastic
There is an apocryphal story about a (German) employment hiring test. Candidates are presented with a sphere, a cube, and a pyramid and asked to attempt to balance them into…
July 15, 2019
Week 5 – Collaborators…
...Mount up (genuinely a collaboration)'To ensure that the true spirit of what it means to be Cuban was captured at every stage of design, the Pearlfisher team travelled to Havana…
July 3, 2019
General Eisenhower, definitely NOT yellow.
Week 4 – Business As Unusual
Those who can do, those who can't, Chris Do? I am not sure what bothers me so much about this. Maybe the fact that Garfield is clearly not yellow, I…
June 29, 2019
Copyright expert Guy Goma, the Walter Benjamin of our times.
Week 3 – Legal Accipitridae
By Alan Smithee DICK. The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.aka, what do Dr. Dre, Steffi Graf, and Deutsche Bank have in common?Gutenberg's invention gave us the…
June 19, 2019
It was Flavor-Aid, not Kool-Aid in Jonestown
Week 2 – Cult of Agency
The theme of there being many ways to structure and run a business continues. It must be said that the structure has to fit the entity. A sole trader has…
June 18, 2019