Some of the best advice you’ll ever receive, in a handwritten illustrated essay.
Debbie Millman
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If you imagine less, less will be what you undoubtedly deserve. Do what you love, and don’t stop until you get what you love. Work as hard as you can, imagine immensities, don’t compromise, and don’t waste time. Start now. Not 20 years from now, not two weeks from now. Now.
Debbie Millman’s timeless advice on courage and the creative life, in a wonderful illustrated essay.
Every once in a while — often when we least expect it — we encounter someone more courageous, someone who choose to strive for that which (to us) seemed unrealistically unattainable, even elusive. And we marvel. We swoon. We gape. Often , we are in awe. I think we look at these people as lucky, when in fact, luck has nothing to do with it. It is really about the strength of their imagination; it is about how they constructed the possibilities for their Life. In short, unlike me, they didn’t determine what was impossible before it was even possible.
Fail Safe – Debbie Millman’s fantastic illustrated essay of timeless advice on courage and the creative life.
You can never know anyone as completely as you want. But that’s okay, love is better.
Debbie Millman reads the philosophical moral of the wonderful Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology, and what it teaches us about love and control in human relationships.
The word “brand” is derived from the Old Norse word brandr, which means “to burn by fire.” … In 1876, after the United Kingdom passed the Trade Mark Registration Act, Bass Ale became the first trademarked brand in the world after submitting its now-quintessential red triangle for trademark status. The act gave businesses the ability to register and protect a brand marker so that a similar icon couldn’t be used by any other company. In addition to clinching trademark number 1, Bass’s trailblazing history includes its appearances in Édouard Manet’s 1882 masterpiece A Bar at the Folies-Bergère and Pablo Picasso’s 1912 painting Bouteille de Bass et Guitare, ostensibly providing the brand with the cultural distinction of “first product placement.” … A little more than a century later, we are living in a world with over one hundred brands of bottled water.
Debbie Millman on the history and psychology of branding – a fascinating read.
More hand-lettered awesomeness from the notebook of Debbie Millman, maker of amazing things.
Hand-lettered awesomeness from the notebook of Debbie Millman, maker of amazing things.
Complement with Michio Kaku’s The Universe in a Nutshell.
Amy Webb, author of the fascinating Data, A Love Story: How I Gamed Online Dating to Meet My Match, talks to Debbie Millman about how the very design of online dating profile questionnaires sabotages your odds of finding your soulmate.
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Whatever you do, if you do it really well, there’s a validity to it — and there’s a pleasure that you bring.
Wonderful Design Matters interview with design writer extraordinaire Steve Heller, author of 100 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design and countless other books.
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Steve is every bit as mercurial as the media have portrayed him, in the press as well as in the books. He has a very different point of view of what he wants and what he sees, and you basically have to draw it out of his head. He has a thousand ideas, not all of them good, and when he is fixated on one idea, you have to convince him why it’s right or wrong — and if you can’t do that, you’re not right.
Legendary early Apple designer Clement Mok on what it was like to work with Steve Jobs.
Complement with Jobs on the secret of life in 46 seconds.
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Charming sketchnotes of Debbie Millman’s Design Matters interview with yours truly. Subscribe to Design Matters on iTunes, for free, here.
For Anaïs Nin’s 110th birthday today, one of her most poignant insights on love, illustrated by Debbie Millman.
Available as a print, with 100% of proceeds benefiting a foundation supporting women writers and artists.
Debbie Millman interprets the Second Amendment in a new series of posters against gun violence. Complement with Stephen King on guns.
Australian illustrator Sophie Blackall tells the most moving, beautiful, heartbreaking story from her wonderful Missed Connections project.
