tom peters: an incredible look at a well designed finance department

I imagine... 

A Finance "Department" with a Musician, a Poet, an Artist, an Actress, and an Anthropologist. As well as some Numbers Dudes. THIS "Department" stands for ACCURACY AND INTEGRITY. BUT it is also a ... Scintillating Business Partner. Its members are not drones. They do not hide behind dense, obscure Excel spreadsheets filled with arcane figures. THEY ARE EXCITING. THEIR IDEAS ARE EXCITING. Their presentations are exciting. And clear. And beautiful. BECAUSE THESE NEW-BREED "FINANCE PEOPLE" ARE ... DESIGN DRIVEN. 

Author: Tom Peters 
Book: Design, 2005

stop running all over the place and get someplace...

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I am sitting here looking at my TweetDeck desktop, watching all of the tweets, reading all of the busy profiles, and I had a flash back of something my mom always used to say... 

"Boy!!! Stop running all over the place, and get someplace, and sit down!" 

Wow... WOW!!! How relevant was she? Right? 

One of the greatest challenges to the designer is focus. ABSOLUTE, focus. And when I say design, I don't want you "boxing" that in. I am not talking solely about "graphic design" or "industrial design" I am talking about ALL design ... the design of systems, the design of services, products, brands, blogs, widgets, EVERYTHING and WHATEVER!!! It's hard for the creative mind to stop "running all over the place" and get "someplace" and "sit down".  Being able to get someplace, and focus there, concentrating all of your creative energy is one of the keys to robust innovation. Focusing on one project at a time; lessens the chance of a project, DESIGN, being watered down and diluted. 

Take your time, stop running all over the place, get SOMEPLACE and sit down with your IDEA (singular, not plural) and put some real thought into it. Craft THE idea in your mind, and bring it to realization... We are waiting on you. Do it. 

fresh & nero: spektrum xl 16

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Yet another amazing project from one of my FAVORITE Graphic Designers/Illustrators - Martijn  van Dam

Designer: Martijn van Dam
Complete Exhibit: http://ow.ly/VylM 
Platform: Behance

the meaning of design

"Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation..."

Tom Peters - Design, 2005

we are not prepared ...

We consider "design" ... when we consider it at all ... to be about "patina" ... "a little something on top." - But we must appreciate that design is the ... SEAT OF THE SOUL.

Tom Peters - Design, 2005

the creator

"We were created by the Creator, for the purpose of creation... Create." ~ Vincent Hunt

movie: a perfect getaway

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Watching the movie "A Perfect Getaway". This is my second time watching this (thanks iTunes, your rental system is a game changer) and even though I am watching it a second time, there is this mystery about it that makes it quite the thriller. IF You have NOT seen this movie, it's a good Saturday night thriller.

mentorship

I am attending a mens summit today and the theme is mentorship. My very good friend Dr. Victor L. Powell has teamed up with a local Bishop, Bishop Williams, and they are attacking the issue of "fatherless men"...

I truly believe in mentorship, and if you have been following me over the past couple of years, you would know that I have mentors of my own. I really feel that this generation needs mentorship, no more than generations past, but in a more relevant way. Men and women of all ages, need to start taking responsibility in the greatest design in the earth, the future. Mentorship is part of the design style guide, and we all need to wake up to this idea.

my legacy

"My legacy is written in the notebooks, and moleskines as testimony of those I have helped over the years... This is efficient. If the totality of telling this story was left solely up to me, I would mess something up, the enormity of it all is far to much for me to grasp..."