Crop of “Dans les Moments de Verite” by photographer Jean-Christian Rostagni. Full image at Rostagni’s photography website.
For months I’ve been waiting for a sink-your-teeth-into-it conversation about art, design, and meaning. Yesterday I got my wish.
Ten years ago, I was shooting for what used to be the Spectator Weekly. I thought it would be good to […]
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Why popular photography sucks
Written by April 22nd, 2010 in Design Inspirations, Desk Notes and Interesting Finds.0 CommentsOn parenting and what Eleanor Roosevelt said
Written by April 12th, 2010 in Design Inspirations, News at DK, Desk Notes and Interesting Finds.1 Comment
A good friend of mine is pregnant. I’m reliving with her those early moments of nausea, fear, anxiety, and wondering if it’s all going to turn out “OK.”
How branding and marketing got blurry
Written by March 29th, 2010 in Desk Notes and Interesting Finds.1 CommentSometimes, expertise gets confused with articulateness.
Let’s think about it from the point of view of walking into a room full of strangers. Pretend those people are each brands walking around with stuff to sell.
When we’re meeting new people in social situations in real life and they’re kind of boring, we can just move away. […]
The fundamental theorem of calculus
Written by March 24th, 2010 in Design Inspirations, Desk Notes and Interesting Finds.0 CommentsIt was the art and beauty of mathematics that did it. The idea that math could lay order on the unknown—and that it was deduced by some people with imagination and intuition—that I decided to study so much math in college. This thing—I’ll call it “abstract preciseness”—is what DK offers our clients, too. Creating a […]
I really miss my comfort latte every morning in Seattle. But I have weaned myself from both caffeine and the Northwest.
If you live in climates where the sky is gray most of the time, as DK did in 2000-2004 in Cork, Ireland, and 2004-2009 in Seattle town, you learn to appreciate warm cozy drinks.
Caffeine is […]
Check out these seven tips from three top marketing executives on how to set up the sale.
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A bonus if you make it to the end: a great book we now recommend to our clients as part of creating a brand marketing campaign.
Cows and people have more in common than we think.
Here’s what DK wants to know.
What do social media directors and new media designers think and feel about the way the web is evolving?
What about marketing people? What do YOU think brand designers need to know about marketing in this digital search-and-find-a-person era?
Design Kompany’s clients […]
Who says every written piece of work has to be “literary?” What defines “meaningful” or “good” writing, anyway?
Recently fired Harper’s editor Roger Hodge stood behind a podium last Friday in Durham and told the mostly gray-haired audience why we should despair.
“We as a society have made bad decisions,” he said.
“People in the business are […]
