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A friend from Korea taught me a new saying:
We meet to depart.
Somewhat sad, but ever so true. The implications are to treasure (or withstand) experiences with other people in the present as conditions will always change.
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The weather in Chicago is quite beautiful today. I am attending a conference in the area of “design strategy” and am helping to keep their blog moving with Becky Bermont. The entire conference can be reduced to a single question with this poll on great products. My personal bet is on option number three.
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May 18, '07
For my exhibition in London, I constructed a kind of “fish” constructed of 16 iPod Nanos. Each of the iPods contain a set of sixty-thousand visual memories from my most recent ten years. I think of these memories as constantly swimming away from me — much like an exhibition that has set sail.
Alice Rawsthorn, Design Critic for the International Herald Tribune, wrote a piece about the show from her perspective. The show will be up for another month or so.
I gave a talk at M&C Saatchi in London this week. There I had the fortune of meeting the advertising legend Maurice Saatchi for a brief moment. In my introduction to the audience of marketers and local creatives, Saatchi related the story of Christopher Columbus and his quest for the Western Hemisphere. In Columbus’ diary there was the consistent entry to the effect, “No land. Move on. Move on.” Saatchi’s point was that to explore new territories of lands, life, or thought, that the mantra is always reduced to simplicity itself.
At the very end of the talk, I fielded some questions and there was a gentleman that brought up how The Economist educates its writers. Simplify. Then exaggerate. I found this to be an enjoyably simple thought from one of my favorite papers.
event May 4, '07
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