watch this video from 1967 and learn all about it …

what to say?

instead, here is steve jobs’ 2005 standford commencement address.

another 49 motivational quotes from guerrillafreelancing.com

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. Andrew Carnegie

I just love it when people say I can’t do it, there’s nothing that makes me feel better because all my life, people have said that I wasn’t going to make it. Ted Turner

Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you’re still trying, keep it up! You’re right on track. Matthew Keith Groves

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mike monteiro from mule design studio on contracts, both as an article on their website, as well as via a talk at the march 2011 creative mornings at san francisco. he even brought his lawyer to that one.

via swissmiss

1. ideas don’t come from watching television
2. ideas sometimes come from listening to a lecture
3. ideas often come while reading a book
4. good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them
5. …

see the remaining 16 entries at seth godin’s blog

what makes a designer good? what makes a designer successful? i had many conversations on this topic with people. at the end of the day, i believe it is as much about ones design sense, as it is about the ability to get up in the morning, work through times where inspiration may not strike you, and to just get things done and stuff out there. talent, i believe, needs to cover someone’s work ethics just as much as their business sense and their design capabilities. (and no, i’m not saying that i necessarily have all of these covered myself …)

but I really liked and agreed with chuck close’s quote from andrew zuckerman’s wisdom:

“Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work.”

(see the longer quote at designsojourn.)

wired magazine has several photos of early prototypes of now classic technology products. included are an early push button phone from 1948, the first atari video game from 1976, an apple I computer from 1975, and the worlds first cellphone from 1973. interesting both on a visual and prototyping level, as well as for the background stories.

Apple I, 1975

“as far as i was concerned, it never was a feud; detroit simply had no use for my ideas as long as the public wanted large cars with all their accessories, which detroit could sell, inducing higher price tags.

and businessmen rarely express appreciation for ideas that may lower their income. in point of fact, they wouldn’t have; while detroit was building gas guzzlers, the germans and japanese, with their more modest cars, ran away with the world market.”

- raymond loewy, industrial design, 1979