I have a weakness for tastefully designed backpacks. It’s not an easy task to design a bag that functions well for work but is still stylish enough to bring out at night. ISM accomplished just that with their minimalist backpack design and beautiful aesthetics. Every detail is intentionally designed to help keep you efficient and […]
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I rise sometime between 6 and 6:30 often after having heard the radio news. My breakfast, a dish of corn flakes, is on the kitchen table. Coffee is made automatically by the stove timer. I breakfast alone. At the moment, I am reading a bit of very morning of Bergen and Cornelia Evans’ Contemporary American […]
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WEB DESIGN IN THE 90s 20 years ago, website design was still extremely simple. Prior to 1998, “high-speed” internet connections were not a thing, so it was dial-up or bust. Websites during this era were built for less-than-speedy connection speeds, so they were largely text driven, with very little in the way of design layout. […]
I chose the color black because that’s what designers wore. Or at least my muses. For someone who knew nothing about designing a physical product or creating fashion, I thought that at the very least I could feel like I was Rei Kawakubo or Alexander Wang. In college, I was a history major. It’s not […]
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Color preference plays an important part in the way that we perceive and experience objects around us. While much has been written about color theory, little is known about why people like one color over the other. What we do know from research conducted by psychological and cognitive scientists is that our unconscious reaction to […]
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On how childhood shaped her ambitions: So I come from a family of entrepreneurs and growing up, my dad was always working really long hours and doing a lot of different things. This idea of working hard came naturally to me. I see a lot of value in it and I’m always trying to better […]
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My hair is always done by six o’clock in the morning and by seven I am fully dressed. I then compose until nine. From nine to one I give lessons. Then I lunch, unless I am invited to some house where they lunch at two or even three o’clock, as, for example, today and tomorrow […]