Posts Tagged ‘99% Conference’

THE PERSONAL PROJECT.

Sunday, September 26th, 2010

Last month I posted a short, inspiring talk from Pentagram’s Michael Bierut at the 99% Conference. While skating through the rest of the website I found yet another talk, this time from Ji Lee. The creator of the Bubble Project. The talk itself illustrates the power and transformative powers of Personal Projects. Both as way of breaking out of your (relatively) hum-drum day job, and as a way of powering and inspiring your own creative muse. It must have worked for Lee, he’s now Creative Director of Google… Have a gander.

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5 FROM 86.

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

I found this fantastic talk from Michael Bierut of Pentagram, recently speaking at the 99% conference in New York. He talks extremely engagingly about the 5 ‘secrets’ he’s gleaned from the 86 notebooks he has compiled since 1982. Apart from a lovely insight into the designers’ thought process (as well as an interesting take on how he sees himself as a creative) he shows how the simplest of design ideas can translate across numerous executions, as well as transcend their original constraints (especially the final example). It’s an inspiring, and breezy 19 minutes. Take a look.

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99%.

Monday, May 4th, 2009

This video has been doing the rounds on Twitter this morning. A snippet taken from the 99% conference This is Scott Thomas, Design Director of New Media for Obama for America talking about his experiences designing the Obama online campaign. I would love to have seen the whole talk, it sounds fascinating and re-inforces some of my current thoughts on co-creation. Take a gander!

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