Remember when frontend was fun?

Posted by on May 22, 2018 in Abso-effing-lutely, Ipso Fabulous | No Comments

Go here. So many LOLZ! Thank you so much Sara Vieira for making this real!

Media out of balance

Via Seth Godin:

Successful media (let’s define ‘successful’ as media that can make a difference, make a connection and possibly make a living) has four elements:

Attention

Enrollment

Trust and

Permission

Too often, particularly online, people just worry about the first one.

It’s a race to go viral, to go low, to make a bunch of noise. The quick hit, the shortcut, the inflammation.

But attention is insufficient.

Enrollment means that your audience wants to go where you’re going.

Trust earns you the benefit of the doubt.

And permission means you don’t have to begin from scratch every time. You’ve earned some attention. The privilege of delivering anticipated, personal and relevant messages over time.

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An actual thing that actually happened

Posted by on Apr 30, 2018 in Abso-effing-lutely, Creatives I admire | No Comments

It is time you discovered the brilliance of Tim Urban and Andrew Finn’s Wait But Why: New Post Every Sometimes. Start with the FAQs on the About page then go directly to this>>

Vases made from pvc pipes

Posted by on Apr 15, 2018 in Creatives I admire, Ipso Fabulous, My Style | No Comments

Just because a material is cheap doesn’t mean it can’t be high design. At this year’s Salone furniture fair in Milan, Japanese designed Kodai Iwamoto is displaying a set of vases made from plastic pipes you could buy at any hardware store! Check out the full article here >>

Bonnie’s rules for being a better client

Posted by on Mar 28, 2018 in Brand Thinking, Creatives I admire | No Comments

Bonnie Siegler has more than 60 in her delightful new book! Here are my favorites:

White space is your friend

No, you can’t watch us work

Be open to things you didn’t imagine

Be confident, not arrogant

Nothing takes a second

Don’t be rude

Tell me the problem, not the solution

Decide who will decide

Have clarity of purpose

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Seth Godin: Ignore sunk clowns

Posted by on Mar 7, 2018 in Abso-effing-lutely, Ipso Fabulous | No Comments

Wise advise by Seth Godin:

Yes there was supposed to be a clown at your birthday party. No, he didn’t show up. That’s a bummer.

But! But your friends are all here, and the sun is shining and you’ve got cake and a game of pin the tail on the donkey ready to go.

The question is: how long should you mourn the loss of the clown? How much more of your party are you ready to sacrifice?

The same question confronts the pro golfer who three-putted on the third hole.

Or the accountant who forgot an obvious deduction, one that can’t be recovered.

Or the salesperson who missed a key meeting, or the speaker who got let down because the tech crew screwed up her first three slides.

When we can see these glitches as clowns, as temporary glitches that are unrelated to the cosmic harmony of the universe or even the next thing that’s going to happen to us, they’re easier to compartmentalize.

That happened.

Okay, now what?

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