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Hope for the best, plan for the worst
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June 10th, 2010 |
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Brand is not a garnish
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June 12th, 2009 |
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Singing new songs
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March 5th, 2009 |
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5 lessons in business innovation
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March 1st, 2009 |
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AIGA in West Michigan
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January 27th, 2009 |
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Release 2.0
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January 2nd, 2009 |
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Looking Ahead: The Benefits of Annual Planning
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December 2nd, 2008 |
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Design for a Cause
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August 7th, 2008 |
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What’s in a plan?
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July 1st, 2008 |
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Design West Michigan
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June 24th, 2008 |
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Statement of Purpose
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June 10th, 2008 |
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Immersed
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June 3rd, 2008 |
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Do your friends know what you do for a living?
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April 28th, 2008 |
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MC reports on Zeldman
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April 25th, 2008 |
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Starbucks: Just another average Joe?
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March 10th, 2008 |
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The Real Secret Behind Creative Genius
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February 7th, 2008 |
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Metrics of a better experience
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January 26th, 2008 |
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Serial entrepreneurship at SEED
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January 21st, 2008 |
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NPR interview
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December 19th, 2007 |
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Agility pendulum
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November 14th, 2007 |
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Hi Carol, you're right! We've just started AIGA West Michigan this year. To Join AIGA, go to http://aiga.org/join Make sure you associate yourself with the West Michigan chapter under My Service Requests. Also join us on Facebook and LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1059587&t...
Kevin on AIGA in West Michigan
It looks like this is a very new AIGA chapter in West Michigan. Where can I find more information? How do I join? I'm a young design professional in Grand Rapids and am looking to network. Thanks!...
Carol Quade on AIGA in West Michigan
I love your new blog...
Kate on Singing new songs
Well done Kevin! Looks like a sweet event and a great home for the next AIGA chapter....
Justin on AIGA in West Michigan
I hadn’t really thought about how designers could affect the environment. But we do create everything from eco-friendly packaging to billboards. All of the things in-between require sketches and proofs (which can be on recycled paper), and designers often work with favored vendors, which means they ...
Online Printing Company | PrintPlace.com on Design for a Cause
Thanks Chris – a diversity of opinion makes everything better. If you check back later, you may find that it falls more in to place for you. A definition of strategy I like is "an idea that describes a journey to a position of advantage." We're on that path....
Kevin on Fresh start
Not a bad name really.... but not that great either. It's just sort of mediocre. Which is why all this very smart writing is needed. And the writing IS smart, but It wasn't enough to sell me. sorry, I love your work though!...
chris on Fresh start
Just wanted to drop you a line and let you know that I really love your vision for this company. If I ever move back to GR I'm going to look you all up....
Melissa Balkon on Fresh start
Congrats on the Addy for the ICFF Exhibit. Quite possibly the greatest piece of design to have come out of Design People thus far. Well done....
Colin West on Starbucks: Just another average Joe?
Starbucks customers have their own blog, Starbucks Gossip: http://starbucksgossip.typepad.com/ run by Jim Romenesko. Some items have 200+ comments!...
Edward Vielmetti on Starbucks: Just another average Joe?
Nice interview guys, especially the discussion around the name change. As a client, I really appreciate your willingness to practice what you preach...yes, design is more orthopraxy than orthodoxy! Cheers to another 10 years!...
Bill Holsinger-Robinson on NPR interview
Fair enough. Let me restate by saying that in my experience, "agile" can be used as an excuse for a shoot-then-aim mentality. I agree that an agile process, when properly staffed and managed, is ideal. I'm all for being agile, as I aim for our entire firm to be this way....
kevin on Agility pendulum
Too much of agile development offers an excuse for acting without a plan. This is not correct. Agile development is all about planning -- iteratively and when its needed. It is opposed to big up front design, which focuses energy, time and money on producing a plan which ...
Zach Dennis on Agility pendulum
What Julie's referring to, of course is User-Context-Content Venn diagram we've used as one guide for our Information Architecture work for years. We learned about it from Lou Rosenfeld at an NNG...
kevin on Agility pendulum
What? No Venn diagram? Fork it, Budelmann. Lou's diagram. He won't mind....
Julie on Agility pendulum