Netdiver Mag

Of Ecuadorian and Chinese descent, Marisa Jahn is an artist whose work explores, constructs, and intervenes natural and social systems and, a MIT graduate in Visual studies.

Ranging in practice from deeply personal to highly participatory, her work often relies on the collaborative authorship and distributive intelligence of surrounding people and situations.

Discover her latest endeavor: Bibliobandido – a public art and literacy project. Simply awesome!

Presenting OpenIDEO. It’s a place where people design better, together for social good. It’s an online platform for creative thinkers: the veteran designer and the new guy who just signed on, the critic and the MBA, the active participant and the curious lurker.

Watch the introduction movie. If you like, get involved.

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via: Derek Kinsman

First experience with Flipboard by Stella Gassaway

Downloaded the Flipboard app for our brandy new iPad and it alone, makes the iPad worthwhile. Both the iPad and Flipboard are pretty sweet. Upon opening the app, initially what you see, are your content zones, each with a category.

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You can add your Twitter and Facebook accounts. Right now control is limited to these two. Taxonomy and your social network(s) drive the content you see, and you’ve never seen an RSS feed look so good.

It’s wicked fast and the origami-style flip behavior, feels perfect.

The magazine is beautiful, inviting, and easy to use.

The interface can be a bit confusing when you step in and out of Flipboard and the web. Most disconcerting — things disappear, well reposition themselves, as the content updates. This is probably the most difficult aspect of fluid magazines.

How do I find that again? Maybe it will be easier when social networks create a level of importance — then conversations begin.

We’ll see.

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About the author: Stella Gassaway [ stellarvisions : communication architects ] instigator : disruptor : thinker : doer : artist works and thinks visually, but self-involved design tinkering bores her.

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Design a cover for Guy Kawasaki’s new book a print design project is stirring a cloud of reactions around crowdsourcing and spec work. Not familiar with topic, check No!Spec website.

Debbie Millman (current AIGA president) got my attention with this tweet:

“The value proposition for crowd-sourced spec work is such: client gets limitless choice, designer gets privilege of providing choice. Hmm.”

Retweeted this post by Zerofee (an ethical design agency based in London, UK)

@debbiemillman I’m not sure ‘designer’ is a term yet earned by those taking part in spec work processes, is it?

And Zerofee answered my retweet:

@netdivermag I think @debbiemillman’s position on crowdsourcing is that it is spec work – in other words, unacceptable.

And Debbie Millman answered back:

@netdivermag Spec work takes advantage of designers by asking them to work for free until (or if) the client deems work worthy of payment.

Then Icograda suggested this:

@debbiemillman @netdivermag someone should tell @guykawaski this! Seen his book cover brief?

Privately, Michael Urman DM this:

“Not sure if you’ve been following this ‘contest’ thread. Guy Kawasaki has posted a book cover contest.”

Which I read from top to bottom. Do welcome your opinion and before you do, please read it too, so you acquire perspectivve in ref with some of the reactions.

Now, and as Andrew Cohen says:

“Wait we are talking about spec AGAIN?”

Guess we are.

So what do you think?

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Featured: Julie Lockwood entry

Five Tips For Making Ideas Happen by Scott Belsky

1. Avoid a reactionary workflow

2. Strip projects to three primary elements

3. Measure meetings with action steps

4. Reduce your insecurity work

5. The creative process is about surviving the “project plateau.”

What if the most talented people got the best opportunities? Welcome to the Era of Creative Meritocracy by Scott Belsky

“Imagine a world where the best ideas have the best chance to succeed. No more favoritism that places the wrong people on creative projects. Cut out the middlemen that arbitrarily recommend cost-efficient talent over the most deserving talent. Forget the corporate nepotism that appoints leaders based on relationships over merit.”

Design Love by Thomas Wilder

idsgn (a design blog) recently had the opportunity to sit down with a few of these design couples that live, work, and design together everyday.

1. Triboro Design: David Heasty & Stefanie Weigler

2. Design Army: Jake & Pum Lefebure

3. WORKSHOP: Jessi Arrington & Creighton Mershon

4. SML Office: Jennifer Wagner & Nico Schweizer

5. Vignelli Associates: Massimo & Lella Vignelli

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Featured: Jake & Pum Lefebure from Design Army.