A year from now it’s very likely—although not a given—that Android will be back on top. Windows Phone might shoot up the charts, quadrupling its market share from negligible to inconsequential. Open WebOS might okay just kidding.
Source: chipotle
Things that are no contest: neck tie vs scarf.
Sometimes I feel the urge to attempt publicly shaming dudes who have their butts hanging out their pants, but when they have mustaches too I know nothing can help.
Yeah, let’s read historical text to see if any crufty old men ever documented something they were too ham-fisted to find.
(via mindlessmusingss)
Source: kaydeelayne
People who create things of value deserve to be rewarded for that creation, no less than people who build cars or make computers or cook McDonald’s burgers. This is a fundamental axiom without which there is no benefit in creation for any purpose save as a hobby. If we do not accept that idea, then what we are doing is we are saying that as a society we do not want the contribution of talented, creative poor people who can not support themselves in some other way; only the independently wealthy with plenty of time on their hands and the means to support their creation need apply. If I intend to invest in a camera, or canvas and paint, or studio recording equipment, I better do it without any expectation that my investment will be rewarded in any tangible way, and so I’d better have enough money to do so without the expectation of return. This idea is, I think, self-evidently horseshit.
Source: tacit.livejournal.com
Damien Hirst died last Thursday, January 12, in New York following complications from acute diverticulitis brought on by a swinishly speculative, grossly cynical, intellectually constipated effort to pinch out 11 concurrent exhibitions of rehashed expensive crap. He was 46.
5 steps to getting your design agency off the ground.
Here are 5 key steps to establishing yourself and your agency in the local design community ethos.
Step 1: Define a need for design staff for your fledgling app design company.
Step 2: You know through a trusted advisor about one company’s work. You like their work. You want to be able to problem solve like them, but you want to hire a person to work with you full time, not a team of proven designers.
Step 3. So you contact a new hire at said company and ask them if they’d like to leave that company and join yours. New hire says, “No thanks, but I could probably recommend a few people, if you’d like.”
Step 4. Don’t take new hire up on that offer. Instead, contact one of the principles of the company and ask them if they’d like to be hired by you, maybe with the possibility of one day becoming a ‘partner’ in your fledgling agency.
Step 5: Tally up the bridges burned before you’ve even put up a company website.
Suggestion: have an honest conversation with people (especially those in your local community) about what you’re trying to accomplish, don’t try to undermine them.
Scorecard:
Class -3
Dickbag +4
Finally, some real boot weather in Toronto. Stupid bastard global warming.
Lover of design, typography, photography, music and life. Critical of close mindedness and a lack of critical thinking.
