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The space between people working together is filled with conflict, friction, strife, exhilaration, delight, and vast creative potential.
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Design this poster together.
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posted: October 22nd, 2009
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Cool is conservative fear dressed in black. Free yourself from limits of this sort.
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Design a very cool poster using only black.
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posted: October 22nd, 2009
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Desynchronize from standard time frames and surprising opportunities may present themselves.
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Design a different part of the poster every day of one week and put them together on the last day.
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posted: October 22nd, 2009
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The market and its operations have a tendency to reinforce success. Resist it. Allow failure and migration to be part of your practice.
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Design an animated poster
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posted: September 20th, 2009
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Edit applications. Ideas need a dynamic, fluid, generous environment to sustain life. Applications, on the other hand, benefit from critical rigor. Produce a high ratio of ideas to applications.
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— The computer is the only allowed design tool
— Make use of a predefined grid
— It’s not allowed to use black
— Add an icon, logo, symbol to your design
— The image needs to be shocking in some kind of way
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posted: September 20th, 2009
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Growth happens. Whenever it does, allow it to emerge. Learn to follow when it makes sense. Let anyone lead.
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Design this poster with a well known dutch graphic designer or design studio in mind
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posted: September 20th, 2009
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John Cage tells us that not knowing where to begin is a common form of paralysis. His advice: begin anywhere.
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Design a ’spirographic’ poster
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posted: September 20th, 2009
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Allow yourself to wander aimlessly. Explore adjacencies. Lack judgment. Postpone criticism.
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Design this poster using one continuous line
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posted: September 20th, 2009
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A studio is a place of study. Use the necessity of production as an excuse to study. Everyone will benefit.
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Visualize all the objects on your desk in the posterdesign
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posted: September 20th, 2009
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The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question. Collect wrong answers as part of the process. Ask different questions.
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Design this poster using a photocopier.
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posted: September 19th, 2009
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The deeper you go the more likely you will discover something of value.
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Design this poster around the theme: ‘Camouflage’.
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posted: September 19th, 2009
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Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.
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Design your own typeface using only counter forms. Incorporate this typeface in your poster.
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posted: September 19th, 2009
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When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we’ve already been. If process drives outcome we may not know where we’re going, but we will know we want to be there.
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Design this poster by hand. It’s not allowed to start over.
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posted: September 19th, 2009
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Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. Growth is not necessarily good. Growth is an exploration of unlit recesses that may or may not yield to our research. As long as you stick to good you’ll never have real growth.
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Design this poster using only Office Excel
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posted: September 18th, 2009
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You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.
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All elements in the design need to be ‘cut off’
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posted: September 18th, 2009