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By Emmanuelle Moureaux:

a table with 56 slender colored acrylic feet randomly arranged into a table top of transparent acrylic. “The sticks support the transparent acrylic panel, while refracting and reflecting light as if they were soaking under water.”

from MoCo Loco.

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oh wow, that blue is SO BRIGHT. a must-use.

French Friday! Words and Eggs

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nevver:

We Love Typography

why i love gray walls!

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what every day has looked like here.

Lunarized

futurisms:

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viafrank:

I’m taking a break from the blog this week, because I need to put some glue in my chair and get some work done. I thought this would be a good time to take the ideas that have been maturing in the blog the past month and summarize. The ideas have been flying a mile a minute around here lately, and it’s time to slow down, reiterate and try to make these ideas stick in my head. (This is for me, but if it helps you too, I get brownie points.)

1. Do something compelling. People are hungry for better. Make something better and people will notice. This is the best promotion.
2. Message dictates the proper aesthetic. Figure out what you want to say and what is important to you, then let the style follow.
3. Make hard decisions about what is important. Be ruthless. Most things aren’t important, just by the very nature of what “important” means. From this:
   • Give emphasis to the important stuff.
   • Deemphasize the unimportant.
   • Put up barriers between you and the distracting.
4. Be picky in work relationships. Realize that agreeing to unfair circumstances not only hurts you, but your peers as well, because it pushes what is acceptable behavior in the wrong direction.
5. Talk and think about process. It’s important. Don’t worry, no one is going to steal your “secret sauce.” That only happens with recipes. And creativity isn’t a recipe.
6. Simplicity in form. Clarity in concept. Conciseness in message. Now, more than ever.
7. Learn to operate in a world of choices. Don’t paralyze yourself with analyzing opportunity costs. Think, move, assess.
8. Two things can be incongruent, yet both partially true. Making two opposing elements play nice is the germ that fuels a lot of wonderful things.
9. If you curate, add context and value. Add a perspective.
10. Feedback loops: small and tight. Inspiration sources: wide and varied.
11. Bonus idea! And, probably, the most important: substance, please.

woodswoodswoods:

The New York Times previews Hoefler & Frere-Jones’ latest, Vitesse.

thepulpgirls:

sidewalk picnics!!

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I’m going to try a new kind of blog post, just to experiment with format. Let’s juxtapose snippets of information and come to a hypothesis. I’ll call it a 1 + 1 post.

Beyond the age of information is the age of choices. —Charles Eames

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In one study, participants were asked to choose an art poster. One group was told that their decision was irreversible, while the other group was told that they could exchange the poster they chose for another one at any time.

Later, participants were asked to rank their satisfaction with the poster they chose. The people who couldn’t change their decision were more satisfied with their posters than the other group who were allowed to swap. — from a study by Dan Gilbert

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We live in an age of options. We perceive having choices as something that is good. But, as much as we think options make us happy, they sometimes actually do the opposite. Having too many choices can be paralyzing and may turn us fickle. Worse yet, too many options may leave us unsatisfied and unhappy, the exact opposite of what we think they’ll do for us.

We’ll consider the opportunity cost of just about any decision. It’s why we’re paralyzed in front of the 47 different kinds of toothpaste in the aisle at Walgreen’s. Do I want my mouth to smell like a wintery mountain top or a citrusy rush? Tartar control or extra-whitening?

On the other hand, if you’re stuck with something, you’ll find a way to like it, even if it means changing how you think about it.

People talk about the new era we’ve entered and how it requires a completely new skill set to thrive. So, let’s add this to the list: we must prepare ourselves a way to approach not a scarcity of options, but rather an abundance of them. Our happiness depends on it.