Get the new year off to a positive start with these design resolutions

Wake up. I hope you enjoyed your holiday because it’s a new year and it’s time to get back to work. We did pretty good last year. We started standing up for ourselves. We stopped working for free. We started getting our financial house in order. (Please don’t make me do the contract thing again this year.) We rediscovered typography (again). We learned to think about mobile first. We learned how to make responsive sites. And we stopped comping with lorem ipsum and started paying attention to the actual stuff we were designing for.

This year? This year’s gonna be a goddamned golden age. Last year we trained. This year we fight.  

(Source: netmagazine.com)

clagil:

There are two sides to every question - Black field of cut steel plants hides a colorful secret …

An incredible installation by Zadok Ben David. Using 12,000 cut steel botanical models from old textbook illustrations, embedded in a thin layer of sand. At first sight it’s completely black. Thats why it’s called  the “Blackfield”. But the other side of the field turns into a wall of color. Amazing! 

More to see here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRXfR99b2XE&feature=player_embedded#!

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The Other Tribe  ?

illuminatedcreativity:

thesavagelydelicious:

lil-b:

Introducing our new game called:

“Don’t Be A Di*k During Meals With Friends.”

The first person to crack and look at their phone picks up the check.

Our (initial) purpose of the game was to get everyone off the phones free from twitter/fb/texting and to encourage conversations.

Rules:

1) The game starts after everyone has ordered.

2) Everybody places their phone on the table face down.

3) The first person to flip over their phone loses the game.

4) Loser of the game pays for the bill.

5) If the bill comes before anyone has flipped over their phone everybody is declared a winner and pays for their own meal.

Variations/house rules:

-Starting the game after everyone is seated.

-In the rare event that multiple people flip their phones simultaneously, the bill is split between said players.

- Feel free to invoke penalties/strikes systems.

Notes:

- No touching or messing with anybody else’s phones.

- You don’t have to stack the phones. This was done for picture taking purposes.

- I realize I should perhaps think of a different name for this awesome game. Because I don’t mean to imply that everyone who checks their phone during meals is a di*k.

- I recommend not being such a stickler or hardass on people about the rules and even initiation of the game. Basic premise is to just get people open to the idea of staying active and attentive to one another. But if someone has to take a call; they have to take a call =).

- Have fun! It’s really more of a fun concept in this new age high tech life of ours. Conversation is the spice of life.

Wow, I don’t think Angela could do it.

be a fun drinking game.

An Exquisite Beast: Each day Emory Allen draws a new illustration literally picking up from where he left off the day before. Get ready to scroll horizontally.

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Hydro74 has some bear pen skills, check him out