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› tumblezod: 30 Things to Stop Doing to Yourself

thirty things to stop doing to yourself: as maria robinson once said, “nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” nothing could be closer to the truth. but before you can begin this process of transformation you have to stop doing the things…

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The Esoteric Hours

personbypersonresearch:

Thank you for all who attended out 7th weekly meeting of The Esoteric Hours. See you next week Wednesday May 30th, 2012 from 8pm to Midnight.

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› The Center for Person by Person Research: Systems of a Neighborhood

personbypersonresearch:

Earlier this month The Center collaborated with Nicole Lavelle, Joel Stien and Harrell Fletcher’s Art, Society and Sustainability seminar to lead a tour called Systems of a Neighborhood. The tour looked into at social and environmental sustainability in the neighborhood around where the…

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› The Center for Person by Person Research: Hello & Welcome

personbypersonresearch:

In 2011, members of The Center for Person by Person Research began creating projects around the idea of evolving human connection. Since then The Center has completed around half a dozen projects with ongoing weekly events. This site is the new home of The Center starting May 2012 and documents…

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The Center for Person By Person Research now has a website/blog/tumblr. Content is pretty much just there as a place holder for now but I did figure out quite a lot about customizing Tumblr themes so that was exciting. It will be nice to have a place to start plugging things into.

mcad-gd:

Design Research Library by Gina Giampaolo (2012), Senior Projects with Erik Brandt.

The Design Research Library is a model for collecting and consolidating meaningful design research and writing. The goal of the library is to provide readers with the tools to gain a full understanding of the evolution of critical design writing, theory, and practice. Well-informed readers are able to enter into discourse as talented writers, makers and library contributors. [NK]

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Designing Connection Manifesto

We should design to help people connect
To use our hands, mind and vision together
To make sense of where we live
The world
And who we are
Because if we didn’t
We’d feel too small
Too insignificant
Lost

Design should trigger experiences

Design is our filter for comprehension
Design is our path to understanding
You
Me
And the World
The connections between people
And how we connect
Are constantly changing
From our grandmother
To our mother
To us

Objects should be secondary to our ideas

The rules are changing
We don’t talk about the same things
We don’t talk in the same way
We don’t talk in the same mediums

How can designers play with this?
How can we help to understand
our evolving technological World?
How is our evolving technology
changing us?

Can we grow closer?
Instead of apart

We think so

First Things First Manifesto 2000

It’d been awhile since I read this, good to be reminded of.

Various authors

This manifesto was first published in 1999 in Emigre 51.

We, the undersigned, are graphic designers, art directors and visual communicators who have been raised in a world in which the techniques and apparatus of advertising have persistently been presented to us as the most lucrative, effective and desirable use of our talents. Many design teachers and mentors promote this belief; the market rewards it; a tide of books and publications reinforces it.

Encouraged in this direction, designers then apply their skill and imagination to sell dog biscuits, designer coffee, diamonds, detergents, hair gel, cigarettes, credit cards, sneakers, butt toners, light beer and heavy-duty recreational vehicles. Commercial work has always paid the bills, but many graphic designers have now let it become, in large measure, what graphic designers do. This, in turn, is how the world perceives design. The profession’s time and energy is used up manufacturing demand for things that are inessential at best.

Many of us have grown increasingly uncomfortable with this view of design. Designers who devote their efforts primarily to advertising, marketing and brand development are supporting, and implicitly endorsing, a mental environment so saturated with commercial messages that it is changing the very way citizen-consumers speak, think, feel, respond and interact. To some extent we are all helping draft a reductive and immeasurably harmful code of public discourse.

There are pursuits more worthy of our problem-solving skills. Unprecedented environmental, social and cultural crises demand our attention. Many cultural interventions, social marketing campaigns, books, magazines, exhibitions, educational tools, television programs, films, charitable causes and other information design projects urgently require our expertise and help.

We propose a reversal of priorities in favor of more useful, lasting and democratic forms of communication - a mindshift away from product marketing and toward the exploration and production of a new kind of meaning. The scope of debate is shrinking; it must expand. Consumerism is running uncontested; it must be challenged by other perspectives expressed, in part, through the visual languages and resources of design.

In 1964, 22 visual communicators signed the original call for our skills to be put to worthwhile use. With the explosive growth of global commercial culture, their message has only grown more urgent. Today, we renew their manifesto in expectation that no more decades will pass before it is taken to heart.

Project Description

The Center for Person by Person Research

Found a research and educational organization interested in physical and virtual communities. This organization will investigate, document and cultivate the evolving way humans seek connection. Intended goals include facilitating dialogue on evolving human connection, encouraging non traditional methods of research, and create a network for interested people.

Deliverables:

A Quarterly Report: Booklet on past projects for interested parties to understand organization’s work.

Case Study Book(let): A need to know resource, ‘Allied Work’ projects that are not affiliated with organization but are useful to it’s practice.

Reading & Resource List: A physical and web resource to guide interested parties in their discovery and delight.

Website/Blog: Serves as framework for organization, a living document of the organization, it’s goals, work and ideas.

Branding Materials:

Business Card: To legitify practices, add official flair, potentially on designed so that anyone could give them out as a member.

Stickers & Stamp: To be used on projects that are sealed with the organization’s approval.

Badge of Membership: A web and physical badge

Beautifully Packaged Packet: To include all tangible elements, report, case study booklet, reading & resource guide, above branding materials and document of invitation/membership. This should be able to be easily mailed as well as handed out.

Possibly:

Video Project: Short video (2-3min) to introduce the idea of evolving human connection, generate interest and conversation.

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› JTK archive: Ten Things I Have Learned—Milton Glaser

justinthomaskay:

Part of AIGA Talk in London
November 22, 2001

1.  YOU CAN ONLY WORK FOR PEOPLE THAT YOU LIKE.
This is a curious rule and it took me a long time to learn because in fact at the beginning of my practice I felt the opposite. Professionalism required that you didn’t particularly like the people…

nicolelavelle:

Digging in deep to some old files…

Here is a selection of scans from Lawrence Halprin’s book Taking Part: A Workshop Approach to Collective Creativity. This is an excellent book. Someday I want to own it but for now it’s a million dollars on the internet.