Category Archives: Productivity

Pocket (formerly Read It Later)

By admin | Published: April 17, 2012

Pocket is quite a depar­ture from ‘Read it later’*. New visual iden­tity, new web­site, new inter­face design, a promo video — it is more of a scrath-the-past-and-start-over kind of a thing. The dark inter­face gives way to a more fresh, bright, approach that under­stands core cat­egor­ies of online con­tent view­ing: art­icles, videos, images. That is a nice improve­ment as these new […]

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Inspire Yourself

By admin | Published: September 14, 2011

Nice art­icle on Computer Arts by illus­trator and art dir­ector Justin Maller expos­ing the over­rated sense of “inspir­a­tion” the media imply and its naked truth: Becoming a bet­ter artist comes from put­ting in thou­sands of hours of work. Unpaid, unap­pre­ci­ated, unap­peal­ing work. It comes from stay­ing up until 2am exper­i­ment­ing in Photoshop and then drag­ging your ass out […]

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Inkling

By admin | Published: August 30, 2011

Wacom announced a new digital sketch pen product. The Inkling sketch pen aims to atten­u­ate the fric­tion of cap­tur­ing a paper draw­ing into an edit­able com­puter file. There’s no tab­let to slide a pen onto — just use a sheet of paper. If it works as advert­ised it may be what illus­trat­ors and design­ers have wanted for quite a while: the […]

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No One Needs Permission to Be Awesome

By admin | Published: August 25, 2011

Regarding the Steve Jobs news today, Merlin Mann tweeted a link for his 43folders’ piece writ­ten last January. So spot on. The art­icle takes as its base point the Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address. What an inspir­ing speech: No one wants to die, even people who want to go to Heaven don’t want to die to get there. […]

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F*ck you. Pay Me.

By admin | Published: April 14, 2011

Mike Monteiro (of Mule Design) and his law­yer Gabe Levine about work­ing and get­ting paid for it. Who’s famil­iar with GoodFellas? Alright: “We got some­body internal to do it instead.“ “F*ck you. Pay Me.” More of Mike and Gabe here. More cre­at­ive talks at creativemornings.com ~ On a seem­ingly unre­lated sub­ject, I did a quick search and found out, as I suspected […]

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