Tag: John Maeda

THE HIDDEN OPPORTUNITIES IN SIDE JOBS

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As promised I will be posting resources on this blog for designers that want to create their own products/sevices and be come entreprenuers. This video on typotalks.com is a lecture by Tina Roth Eisenburg (founder of tattly.com and many other successful ventures as an entreprenuer and creative collaborater) which has lots of inspiring words and her eight rules to be a sucessfull designer/very happy person:

  • Find what You Love
  • Don't be a complainer
  • Trust your intuition
  • If an opportunity scares you take it
  • Find and connect with like-minded people
  • Collaborate
  • Ignore haters

Watch the video to see how and why these rules are good to live by:

 

 

 

John Maeda Speaks In Detail About Simplicity

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I recently posted an article about Tim Ferriss and his eye-opening book the Four Hour Work Week. I am in the middle of reading the book so I will reserve reviewing it until I finish but I do recommend that you click on this link and view his blog regarding the four hour work week.

In the same vein, I also came across this video by John Maeda on the subject of simplicity, he did a talk at the TED conference and he wrote a free book that he discusses in the video. The book ws fone a couple of years ago but it tiesin with his theories presented in the video. In my opinion, it actually proves that we humans are obsessed with complexity rather than simplicity, but it is both entertaining and informative and I recommend watching below.