Designer's Bureau

Startups often struggle with hiring their first designer. Designers often struggle defining their role in a startup. More startups are realizing that a designer as an early employee is an advantage. Here are ways startups & designers can think about this challenge. 🧵

Trying to get a project off the ground? Create an approximation of the final thing. Stand it up as soon as possible with as much scaffolding and fakery as needed. Make it so that, if you squint, you can see a likeness of the end goal.

If you live through defeat, you are not defeated.If you are beaten but acquire wisdom, you have won.

MF Doom’s master class via @RBMA. redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/doom-…

“Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.” - Alice Walker, The Color Purple

1986 the construction of the logo, magic markers -white out copy machine -Exacto knife ..no computer or Photoshop

“We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.” —R. Buckminster Fuller

The Creative Process: -I think this could be awesome! -Maybe this is awesome? -This is not awesome. -Damn I hadn't thought of that -What do I know? x 1000 -What if I'm never better than this -Has my career peaked? -Wait this is not bad -This is actually pretty good -I am a God

Why Being Obsessively Organized Makes You More Creative. ideo.com/blog/why-being…

Typeset In The Future, type in sci-fi typesetinthefuture.com

“We don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out of it.” - @SirKenRobinson

Love the hypnotizing spaces of Peter Kogler. thisiscolossal.com/2016/12/vertig…

What moral struggle? What brand would undermine themselves and their audience by funding toxic media? nytimes.com/2016/12/26/bus…

NPR: One of Japan’s most popular mascots is an egg with crippling depression. #Gudetama pri.org/stories/2016-0…

Yes, multitasking is still a myth. Oh and I also forgot makes you less creative. And squirrel! fastcompany.com/3062183/your-m…

”I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves.“ - @FLOTUS #DemsInPhilly

In the future, the mainstream is every culture, race and look nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Today's high tech is tomorrow's junk rolling around? latimes.com/business/la-fi…

Dear @Tim_Cook, thank you apple.com/customer-lette…

Madlib is from the future - New Yorker: The Brotherhood of Madlib newyorker.com/magazine/2016/…