February 2012
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January 2012
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How To Be Young, A Farewell Letter
“Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” Rainer M. Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Dear friends,
Curious and cripplyingly naive, an even younger version of myself moved to San Francisco in May of 2009 to begin a career in design. This past August, I celebrated my 24th birthday in air on a round-the-world research...
November 2011
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Feast Your Eyes on This
Every year, IDEO welcomes us along with our loved ones to gorge and give thanks at a Thanksgiving feast and pie contest not to be missed. My first IDEO Thanksgiving experience was in 2009, and was also my first shot at designing a poster for an internal event.
Well, two years have gone by and I’ve learned that design has the potential to be far sexier when it can be touched, when it invites...
IDEO Has Mask Appeal
Every Fall, AIGA San Francisco hosts a Gala to celebrate design and community in the Bay Area. Each Gala has a theme that is most evidently expressed through the auctioning of custom-designed objects by well-known artists and designers. This year’s theme was masquerade, and appropriated titled ‘Mask Appeal.’
It didn’t take much convincing to recruit my colleague Wilfred...
October 2011
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Brand Authenticity: A New Story
(Branding for Impact by the IDEO Bay Area Communication Design group)
The 2011 Brand New Conference brought together designers from across the world, for a full day of inspiration and storytelling in San Francisco. The conference embodied all the virtues and qualities of a stimulating blog: humor, surprise, carefully executed aesthetics and an air of ‘connectedness.’ The speaker lineup...
July 2011
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Where Do I Belong, I Mean...Begin?
It’s difficult to summarize our life experiences when we’re constantly trying to make sense of them. So, I suppose three months in Singapore was…long enough. Long enough to just get comfortable making my way around a new city. Long enough to pick up the local idioms (that, I would add, gain you a great deal of respect, lah). Long enough to need legal recognition that I was in fact...
June 2011
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The State of AIGA
“The future belongs to those in charge of the flow of knowledge, not the owner of knowledge.” –Ric Grefe
On June 2-4 2011, over 250 AIGA leaders met in Minneapolis, MN for the associations’ annual Leadership Retreat. The 97-year-old professional association for design consists of 66 chapters and 200 student groups in the United States. Board members, representing over 22,000 members...