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Design

It’s Obvious Why Rio Won the Olympic Bid…

they had a better logo. On second thought, I don’t know I can’t make up my mind. From the Rio bid site: “The Sugar Loaf in the shape of a heart represents the Brazilians’ indisputable passion and vibration for sports. The exclamation point replacing the numeral 1 in the writing ‘Rio 20!6’ symbolizes Brazil’s heightened…

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Designers You Should Know: Anton Stankowski

“For him, design was a process, and at the beginning of every design process was not invention, but a critical exploration of the real givens” –The Design Theory, Curator: Peter von Kornatzki Maybe it has to do with Europe’s long and rich history and association with art. Or maybe it’s that Europeans just have more…

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The Cult of Achievement: Why EQ is Better Than IQ

Another problem with the cult of achievement is that it places so much emphasis on developing a child’s IQ that an equally crucial aspect is totally eclipsed–what psychologist Daniel Goleman, cofounder of the Collaborative for Social and Emotional Learning at the Yale University Child study Center, calls “EQ” in his groundbreaking book, Emotional Intelligence: Why…

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Metropolis by Rob Carter – Last 3 minutes

Metropolis by Rob Carter – Last 3 minutes from Rob Carter on Vimeo. A great animated film by Rob Carter currently  showing at Museum of Art and Design in New York Slash: Paper under the Knife until April 4th. (HT it’s nice that)

Social Justic vs. Divine Justice

That biblical vision of a world-for-all did not come from our modern ideas of democratic power or our contemporary claims about human or civil rights. It did not come from liberalism, socialism, or communism. In recognizing its challenge we are not retrojecting any of that modernity back onto antiquity. A world-for-all came, if one needs…

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Much Fear and Trembling

What Luther discovered, which we too often hide from, is the theological and existential discovery that God is crucified, that the monster takes God, that death and separation destroy God. And this is not to be celebrated, but despaired. Just like Paul, we are in much fear and trembling. For Luther, like Nietzsche, God is…

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I went to the woods because

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. –Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Watercolor painting by Fauve