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Strangely and sadly, this 20 year old interview from Edutopia talks about issues that are still evident in today's education. I dare say the mindset of parents and educators are not progressing as fast as the transformation of mobile phones.
SNL’s You Can Do Anything
A brilliant skit by SNL, a good reflection of a painful truth we are facing today in our society - both the system and the people (not just the young people) who condone it.
(via https://youtu.be/pRz2icpq5Sc)
Interior Experience: Clerkenwell Grind
This restaurant and bar is the eighth addition to coffee bar chain Grind & Co designed by design studio Biasol.
What I love about this restaurant and bar most is its polished classy-diner aesthetics with colours that reminds me of the early 1950s, namely the pink and blue combination.
To read more about the design and see more photos, please follow this link: https://www.dezeen.com/2017/02/11/biasol-conversion-listed-warehouse-restaurant-cocktail-bar-east-london-interiors/
All photos taken from: http://grind.co.uk/clerkenwellgrind/#
Recommended Watch: Mayim Bialik’s “Making Music With My Sons”
This is just too beautiful not to share. It brings me hope that by guiding a child to see things in a more positive perspective, s/he can grow up doing the things that are valuable and important.
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjZcFzzWz9A)
Recommended Reads: Design in Tech Report 2016
In one of the recent design festival that I have attended, I was introduced to John Maeda’s Design in Tech report. In his second report, Maeda examines the intersection of design, business, and technology, as stated by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), the company for which Maeda is a design partner. The report covers themes ranging from the record amounts of funding flowing into design-led startups to M&A activity with major services corporations, as explained by KPCB on their slideshare page.
What strikes me most is Maeda’s categorization for design. He divided the industry into 3 types - Classical Design, Design Thinking, and Computational Design. While this is not unfamiliar to those of you who pays attention to the trend and movements in design, Maeda also suggested that one “must embrace at least two of these categories in order to win in this century.”
For folks like me who are in the Classical Design category, this serves as a wake up call for skills improvement in order to continue to remain relevant.
To read the full report, please follow the following link: https://www.slideshare.net/kleinerperkins/design-in-tech-report-2016
Recommended Reads: Can ‘experience’ be designed?
I came across this article written by Matt Judge, principal in Eight Inc.'s London studio, titled Can ‘experience’ be designed?. For those who are interested in digital design would not be unfamiliar with the term UX, but when it comes to other areas of design, experience is not a word that is commonly used or described.
Judge talks about explains the personalness of experience and its emerging importance in business and consumerism, along with why it is feasible to design experience despite its elusiveness. Here’s my favourite part:
“Creating the framework from which a desired emotional outcome is born as opposed to designing the outcome itself. “
Follow this link to read the full article: http://eightinc.com/insights/can-experience-designed
Stop looking for the thing called Passion. Try believing.
The talk of discovering/finding/following one’s passion is ubiquitous. Passion, somehow or rather, ties in with happiness. It’s what people think they should know by a certain age so that they can path their future with it and be happy. Perhaps, it doesn’t really matter as much as it seems, to find your passion. Here, Terri Trespicio talks at TEDxKC about how the journey of finding one’s passion would in return blind one of many opportunities that may be life changing. Instead of looking for your passion, “look for problems that need solving”, Trespicio says in her talk “Stop searching for your passion”, which you can watch below.
I love how she describes passion as something “where your energy and effort meets someone else’s needs”.
Watching Trespicio’s talk reminded me of a podcast that I listened to months ago. Psychologist Amy Wrzesniewski at Yale University talked to Hidden Brain about her studies in work and job crafting on the episode How To Build A Better Job. According to the podcast, “job crafting can help you make the job that you have right now more meaningful and more satisfying”. In Wrzesniewski’s research, she compared people who are doing exactly the same job in the same organization and came to a realization that some participants see what their work as just a job or a career, whereas some sees the exact same work as something more akin to a calling. (As it will be too long to list the details, please go ahead and listen to the podcast to have a better understanding.) She has also learned that “people who see their work as a calling are significantly more satisfied with their jobs. They're significantly more satisfied with their lives. They work more hours. They miss fewer days of work. They're more engaged in what it is that they're doing.”
So all the years we thought passion is what makes us happy in a job turns out to not be the most true. To have a more satisfied life, it is to believe in your work, believe that it will make an impact on someone else. And we probably wouldn’t have an opportunity to discover that if we are so blinded with the idea of looking for THE ONE.
Lastly, to close off, I would like to quote an insightful comment on YouTube by Bunny “Do things you find interesting, in conditions that you can tolerate.“
Recommended Watch: Kintsugi
Kintsugi: The Art of Embracing Damage by The Nerdwriter (https://www.youtube.com/user/Nerdwriter1/featured)
Recommended Reads: "Sloyd Education Theory: Making Things With Your Hands Makes You Smarter "
As a person who appreciates beauty and craft, I never saw the slightest hint of benefits of handicrafts towards learning and personal cultivation. Rain Noe of Core77 writes about the Sloyd education theory, a system of handicraft-based education. In it, he quotes from Otto Salomon, a revolutionary Swedish educator in 19th-Century, that:
"Objects badly made or badly proportioned, and yet nicely ornamented, are really exceedingly ugly. It is far more important that children should be able to judge when models are well-designed than to be able to decorate them."
The quote brings me to think of design and its common interpretation, which design being mostly about decorating and making something look good. Like what Salomon has implied, there is a distinction between well-designed and well decorated. Perhaps, the lack of Sloyd education in many modern cities are the cause of people being unable to be appreciative of well-designed products, or even things that do not reveal its immediate financial benefits.
To read the full article, follow this link: http://www.core77.com/posts/58789/
"But it's the same thing," Therese said. "The same thing as the drawings, only in model form."
"Well, maybe it's your drawings. They're very positive, anyway. I like that about them."
- The Price of Salt (or Carol) by Patricia Highsmith
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(taken from: http://www.marcjohns.com/blog/)
What keeps you grounded? This is my afterthought after attending SGIFF’s In Conversation with Simon Yam. He told us that right after the event, he will fly back to HK to have dinner with his family, before flying to China on the same day. Having a busy schedule, he makes it a point to spend some time with his family. There, it strucked me that his family is what kept him grounded, what kept him as the Simon Yam he knows, even after years of success.
To follow up with the big question, here’s a few questions that one may ask to check in with himself or herself: - What reminds you to be humble, despite your success? - What keeps you sane, despite the mountains of workload? - What keeps you passionate, instead of becoming indifferent? - What keeps you from self-pitying? - What reminds you that there are no better or worst ambitions? - What reminds you that you are a human being like everyone else, even when you are more capable, or less capable?
Take career advice from Disney and Iwerks
Many months ago, I watched Walt before Mickey on Netflix, a nice movie about Walt Disney’s early years. In the movie, you see how Disney has worked hard and stay strong in pursuing his dreams. What you will also see is the creation of Mickey Mouse with Ub Iwerks. Many who have watched Mickey Mouse while growing up may find this name unfamiliar.
Iwerks and Disney co-created Mickey Mouse at Walt Disney Studios in 1928. In the movie, Disney has mentioned several times that Iwerks was better than him in the field of animation, and I thought this is interesting to note. Some people are like Disney, while others are like Iwerks. Some have the ability to lead, to vision, and to take the business to a higher level. While others, like Iwerks, are best when they focus on their specialization. There is no better or worse, nor is it a comparison of who is more noble or glamorous. Everyone have different talents and different roles to play in life - at work or at home.
Walt Disney said, “You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.”
It may seem less impressive to only be able to be good at one’s specialization, but for a business to work, it takes the people in it to make it. It didn’t take Disney alone to create the brand, probably the most famous name in the world. It took everyone who worked alongside him.
Recommended Reads: "How finding the right community can help your creativity"
A clear and structured write-up by Jory Mackay on Crew.co about the bigger and personal environment that encourages creativity and takes heed from professionals on when and how we can prepare ourselves for feedback. Here's my favourite part: "Think about the thrashing power chords and guttural screams of early punk. Sure, it may have seemed like an entirely new way of playing music, but it happened within the domain of music and was validated by the community of music listeners (well, most of them at least!). Or, on the other end of the spectrum, you’ve got something like chemistry where before the adoption of the periodic table, chemists had no way of really showing that they were innovating or coming up with creative ideas. Sure there were original ideas, but there was no domain knowledge that new ideas could be stacked up or judged against." To read the article, follow this link: https://crew.co/backstage/blog/show-your-work-creative-community/
Drawing Is the New Literacy
There is an undeniable consensus that it takes talent in order to draw. The ability to draw almost seems like it is either you have it or you don’t. Strangely, the same isn’t thought of when it comes to writing.
Perhaps the association between art and drawing is so strong that one finds it difficult to see them without the other. Drawing and art is like writing and literature - causation isn't correlation. Drawing is a form of communication, and it can be as effective, or more effective in conveying complex ideas. When it comes to communication, we aren’t looking at how accurate or detailed the drawing it, but rather, how effective can the sketch deliver information accurately and easily.
Below is Kate Hayward’s TEDx San Antonio talk, titled ‘Draw like a child; see like a master’ (retrieved from https://youtu.be/ZA92l6KwuT4). In the talk, Hayward explains visual communication and illustrates the methodology and power of visual communication with her audience.
Another useful resource to understand visual communication would be Doug Neill’s YouTube Channel ‘Verbal to Visual’. Here’s an introduction to visual note-taking by Neill (retrieved from https://youtu.be/eZQ7ILUAsek).
Credit to Youtube Channels:
TEDx Talks (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsT0YIqwnpJCM-mx7-gSA4Q)
Verbal to Visual (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuFm4ARxn306lX_OWMnz0-w)
Recommended Reads: “Focus on the Details”
A good and to the point write-up by Charlie Ambler (founder of Daily Zen) about why people should turn their focus onto the process of creating, rather than staying focused on the (possible) results.
Here’s my favourite part: “People start with such grand aspirations for what they want to do that they paralyze themselves from ever being able to accomplish anything of value for fear of it being bad. The whole idea of “writer’s block” is a myth, really. It’s just self-consciousness. Anyone can sit and just write if they don’t care about the quality of what they’re writing. Eventually something materializes. People get so caught up in thoughts and self-judgment that they never produce anything.”
To read the full article, follow this link: https://medium.com/@dailyzen/focus-on-the-details-8850d5717c5f#.n78vy9y65
Credits to Charlie Ambler of Daily Zen (http://www.thedailyzen.org/)
The Perfect Home
The Perfect Home, presented by Alain de Botton, is based on his book The Architecture of Happiness. In the documentary, he explores the reasons behind the vast number of pastiche architecture in England, and how traditional architecture has transcended and developed into modern day architecture while keeping traditional values and importance in countries like Japan and Holland.
There are a number of interesting points discussed in the 3-part documentary series, especially how the design of architecture and its space has the power to influence the emotions of the people inside it, or even to reflect our values.
For more about the book, please see http://alaindebotton.com/architecture/