June 1, 2009
Maybe she was born with it, maybe it’s Sid Lee | Agency News

“Sid Lee believes that products and services can be embedded with more storytelling power to stimulate word-of-mouth,” said Sid Lee senior partner Bertrand Cesvet, in a release.

“To achieve that inherent marketing potency, it seems more and more logical to get involved right at the inception of new business endeavors.”

“This project’s focus is not about the equity we have in the company,” added Jean-Francois Bouchard, Sid Lee president. “It is about proving the power of our unique multi-disciplinary team of in-house architects, industrial designers, interior designers, art directors, writers, branding and packaging designers, strategists, market analysts, etc… This multi-disciplinary approach to tackling business challenges is what we call commercial creativity.”

May 30, 2009
“ Design is not a thing you do. It’s a way of life.
Alan Fletcher: Godfather of British Graphic Design
May 28, 2009
“ What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pike
May 27, 2009
“ Without the culture that connects us to our territory, we lose our identity.
Silvio Berlusconi
“ Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
Edith Sitwell
May 16, 2009
“ Don’t try to come up with the right answers; focus on coming up with good questions.
How the Mighty Fall: A Primer on the Warning Signs - BusinessWeek
May 9, 2009

We Were Promised Jetpacks - Quiet Little Voices (via Fatcatrecords)

May 4, 2009
“ Averages don’t tell you very much. You could have a student transmitting to 15 others, while the average in Queens is 0.1. It’s like putting Bill Gates down in Ethiopia and saying the country has a pretty high average income.
Predicting Flu With the Aid of (George) Washington - NYTimes.com

Moray McLaren - We Got Time (via creativedavidwilson)

April 30, 2009

Chromance (via googlechrome)