Six entries in "Thinking for a Living"
Daylight Savings Time
In anticipation of something new we’re working on at BBDK, we’ve reduced the price of the Thinking for a Living™ booklet to $4.95. Available exclusively at YouWorkForThem, this limited edition release is still available – and now at 45% off.
Monday November 10, 2008 - 1 week ago
Posted by Duane King / Filed under Books, Thinking for a Living
Attitude (Altitude) Adjustment
Excuse the absence of posts over this past weekend but we do try to experience more than just design and blogging in our lives. We’re back, safe and sound and more inspired than ever. Don’t forget to unplug yourself from the computer every once in a while. If you can’t see the forest for the trees, go visit a forest!
Monday September 29, 2008 - 1 month ago
Posted by Duane King / Filed under Thinking for a Living
Get Your Widget On
We’re happy to announce the release of the Thinking for a Living™ Resources Widget. Now you can stay on top of our resources feed via the Mac OS X Dashboard. Enjoy.
Frank Chimero says, “Eternal happiness lies within this widget.”
Thursday August 21, 2008 - 3 months ago
Posted by Duane King / Filed under Thinking for a Living
Meet Frank Chimero
More than likely, you already know Frank Chimero via his ongoing projects such as The States or his Inspirational Design Posters but get ready to know him better. I had the good fortune to meet Frank in person when I was reviewing portfolios at the 1st Annual Dallas Society of Visual Communications Student Show & Conference a few years ago. His aesthetic and attitude were instantly captivating and you could tell that his portfolio was just a hint of what was to come. It was clear that Frank was a thinker and a craftsman – and our friendship was sealed at that moment.
As self-described on his site: Frank is a designer, illustrator and tinkerer from Missouri. Inspired by the mid-century aesthetic, Frank tries to recapture the sense of optimism, playfulness, heart and charm that’s characteristic of the period. He can usually be found surrounded by many tiny slips of paper with fragments of ideas scrawled on them. He believes in simplicity, honesty, humor, enthusiasm, keeping busy and air guitar solos. And he also believes in lots of little things over one big thing.
Frank is also beginning to teach design at Missouri State University to a group of lucky students. These reasons and more are why Frank is now a part of Thinking for a Living™. Give him a warm welcome and keep an eye out for his posts on the blog. They are guaranteed to be thought-provoking, entertaining or inspiring – and perhaps all of these at once.
Tuesday July 29, 2008 - 3 months ago
Posted by Duane King / Filed under Thinking for a Living
Delicious Content
James Ellis has written a nice piece on the Athletics weblog explaining how the Thinking for a Living site works under the hood. Months ago, we began to discuss the possibilities for the new site and it was J who suggested using Delicious as the back-end for the site. It was a stroke of genius. I’ll let him explain how he did it, but in short, his clever use of the Delicious API gives content a new context. Thanks again J!
While you’re there, check out the infographics that the guys created for their presentation, “Creativity and the Collective”, which focused on the studio-as-collective business model. The presentation was given at AIGA/NY Smart/Models. Smooth as always.
Wednesday July 2, 2008 - 4 months ago
Posted by Duane King / Filed under Code, Thinking for a Living
(Re)Thinking for a Living
After many months of thought and preparation, a new and improved Thinking for a Living™ is here. Truly, none of this would have been possible without my good friend J. Ellis of Athletics. Thanks to his idea of Del.ico.us integration and some clever server-side caching the site is now running smoothly and is smarter than ever. Updates are easier which means they will also be more frequent – and therefore more relevant.
You can now stay up to date with our Online and Print resources by subscribing to the Thinking for a Living™ Resources Feed, powered by Del.ico.us. We also now have a blog which you can follow by subscribing to the Thinking for a Living™ Blog Feed. The blog will cover a wide variety of topics and will include talented authors from various design related industries in order to help broaden our view of the world and the business of design. Get in touch with us if you have something newsworthy that you’d like to share.
Once again, thanks to all of those who have helped make Thinking for a Living™ what it is today. It’s been amazing to see this project grow thanks to the contributions of so many talented and passionate people. We hope that you find the site a useful resource and that you stick around to see what else we have up our sleeves.
