Right Brain Lefty
My left hand and right brain meet here.
We Are The Market: Win An Entire (capsule) Outfit
Working with some of the best brands in the world affords us a lot of great opportunities, one of which is the ability to give away some free swag. So, what are we going to give away you ask? Well, how about an entire (capsule) outfit? Here’s what’s on the line:
- Gitman Vintage oxford cloth…
Right Brain Terrain’s “Alternative Motivational Posters” (via Goodlifer)
Why celebrate design during a recession?
let us not confuse need with want. we are mostly about the business of desire fulfillment and creating the illusion that want equals need. The ipod, while changing the landscape of technology, can hardly be said to have made the world a better place. US Steel can be attributed to lending a hand to transforming the city into a mass of cheap, grey real estate to be exploited by the ‘haves’. And Costco? More of what you don’t need, right now, in bulk. we are manufacturing desire and ‘leveling the playing field’ by making good little consumers of the entire global village. that expressed, should we applaud our designers? If they are lending a voice to the have-nots, solving real over imagined problems, then yes, let us hold court for them. If, however, we are having galas to have galas, to toast champagne and rub elbows with more of the haves, then nay. nay. nay.A comment on the article by Raymond.
Better (a corollary)
And we all need to do better. We need to be more discriminating with regard to what we post to our Facebook feeds or share on Twitter or link to on our blogs. We need to ask ourselves: why am I sharing this? Who wrote this? Why is his or her voice authoritative? What is the value of this piece? Is this really thought provoking or is it just another distraction?
We’re all tastemakers now, and people are relying on our taste. The quality of our discourse relies on our taste. We need to have better taste.
I’m reminded of an old proverb:
“A wise man speaks because he has something to say. A fool speaks because he has to say something.”
OK, confession - I have over 200 RSS feeds I’m reading & I tweet and tumble more than i blog because I can put a lot of “content” out there. I read a lot of spam, I post a lot of spam, I eat.. well I won’t go there.
I’d like to make a commitment to posting quality over quantity. But that just won’t happen; I’m not that good. Quality comes like a happy accident, rising through the piles of crap that gets tried, tested, and often fails.
I think hemingway has a quote where admits that he produces 1000 pieces of shit before creating one masterpiece. Now if Hemingway said that… then we’re all doomed.
I’m trying to buy a nice desk. But it seems like “minimal design” is a synonym for uber-expensive, or a work of art. The first desk is priced at 3000 euros, the other two seem to be conceptual pieces (the designers don’t list a price on their website).
looks like i’ll be sticking to the ikea option.
“You weren’t the best colorer but you were complete” my dad responded. I asked him which of the childs’ drawings looked most like what I would draw as a child. The one he pointed out didn’t have the hectic strokes of a rebel, or the deliberate motions of an aspiring talent. I drew within the lines, followed instructions, and saw the creative act as a job to complete.
The World's Best Design Thinking Programs
There is huge demand for graduates who know Design Thinking and how to work collaboratively. Increasing that is how all knowledge work is being done. The Design part gives students the methodologies and tool kits to go into new cultures and situations, quickly understand the human needs there, create new options that could satisfy those needs and then iterate quickly to make the right choices before hitting the market place.Via BusinessWeek
on the difference between left-brain and right-brain
The two hemispheres are completely separate. Because they process information differently, each of our hemispheres think about different things, they care about different things, and, dare I say, they have very different personalities.
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Our right hemisphere is all about this present moment. It’s all about “right here, right now.” Our right hemisphere, it thinks in pictures and it leans kinesthetically through the movement of our bodies. Information, in the form of energy, streams in simultaneously through all of our sensory systems and then it explodes into this enormous collage of what this present moment looks like, what this present moment smells like and tastes like, what it feels like and what it sounds like.
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My left hemisphere - our left hemisphere — is a very different place. Our left hemisphere thinks linearly and methodically. Our left hemisphere is all about the past and it’s all about the future. Our left hemisphere is designed to take that enormous collage of the present moment and start picking out details, details and more details about those details. It then categorizes and organizes all that information, associates it with everything in the past we’ve ever learned, and projects into the future all of our possibilities. And our left hemisphere thinks in language. It’s that ongoing brain chatter that connects me and my internal world to my external world.
http://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html
