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Weekly Quote #3

Seymour Chwast is a designer and illustrator, best known for being one of the co-founders of the legendary Push Pin Studios along with Milton Glaser, in 1954.

I take this quote to mean that you should always make sure you have a solid idea as the basis of your work. If you show people your initial ideas and they don’t get them, keep looking for one that they will get, then build from there.

(Weekly quotes so far)

A Nose for Beauty: The sole fact that beauty companies are still testing on animals or using animal products is an embarrassment for an industry that sells “wellbeing.”

1. Is Restaurant Service in Paris Getting Worse?__2. Are Paris Waiters Rude or is it You?

Remove the logo. Know the brand: Earlier today I tweeted, “Name a brand you can visually identify without the logo.”

How Do You Find New Clients When Starting a Design Business?

Talent is God-given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

— John Wooden

Work smart, not hard.

— (via designerspeak)

The 5 Basic Building Blocks for Branding Your Startup

It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want to Be is a concise guide to making the most of yourself – a pocket ‘bible’ for the talented and timid to make the unthinkable thinkable and the impossible possible. After decades at the top of one of the world’s most competitive industries, Paul Arden offers insights into such diverse subjects as the value of being fired and why it’s often better to be wrong than to be right.

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