"Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you know who are impeccably groomed-but dull?” (It’s easy to buy expensive clothes-but much more difficult to develop inner beauty. A big part of character development has to do with speaking the truth in love. -ben weeks)"

— William Bernbach

1:38 pm  •  14 November 2009

1:30 pm  •  14 November 2009

3:03 pm  •  13 November 2009

"It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction."

— Warren Buffett

12:57 pm  •  13 November 2009

9:48 am  •  13 November 2009

"When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."

— Thomas Carlysle

3:57 pm  •  12 November 2009

"The secret of being tiresome is to tell everything."

— Voltaire

3:56 pm  •  12 November 2009

http://pentagram.com/en/new/2009/08/new-work-drk-kliniken.php

Nice work by Justus Oehler, Pentagram’s Berlin Partner.

10:19 pm  •  10 November 2009

Most of us are hired into the organization using job titles that often fall short of defining the high value roles we are expected to play. As a result many leaders are victims of “Title Imposed Roles”. This is a primary cause for lack of focus and work overload.
Take ownership of defining your roles. If you don’t, others will assume them for you.

Read on:
http://www.nomoreoverload.com/E-Letter/-Roles1.html

10:57 pm  •  1 November 2009

"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."

— Albert Schweitzer

1:28 am  •  28 October 2009

Spiekermann Video “typefaces give us signals” hehe cool.

8:35 pm  •  27 October 2009

Fascinating. Designing new stuff has 10x the impact of creating demand over lowering prices. You’d have to double advertising to achieve the same effect says this economist from VCU.

http://ow.ly/vJRt

6:59 pm  •  24 October 2009