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Planning and building: the craft of design

by Dirk February 10, 2006

Guess who said: “I’m engaged in a specific job, to tell a certain story, with a certain group of people, and the work is details. The work is problem solving. The work is steady application of your energy and intellect to the process.” Buckminster Fuller? Could be, but no. Jim Leftwich? Good guess, but it [...]

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Clearing the idea box

by Dirk November 17, 2005

So rather than just saying “I’m too busy to write!” I’m going to empty my burgeoning idea box. Some of these go back 6 months. I’d love to develop each of them into a longer post if not an essay or article, but to get some traction here and clear my head, I’m just dumping [...]

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What do comic books and complex digital products have in common?

by Dirk August 11, 2005

Watching (really, listening to) Stan Lee’s Mutants, Monsters & Marvels while doing some paperwork. It is marginally interesting, but required for me as a shameful Kevin Smith completist. And as they are talking about the creation of comic books, I’m struck by how similar that process is to every formal design project: similar to the [...]

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Rashomon

by Dirk January 19, 2005

“I’m the one who should be ashamed. I don’t understand my own soul.” – The Woodcutter, played by Takashi Shimaru, in Rashomon This is the best film I’ve seen in a really long time. Slowly, I’m making my way through watching the major, important films in cinematic history. Last night I saw Rashomon, directed by [...]

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Field of Dreams

by Dirk December 1, 2002

Had the boys watch FOD for the first time this weekend – they both really liked it. I or course cried like a baby at the end – which they thought was weird – but at least they enjoyed it. It struck me watching that movie that it is almost certainly responsible for my decade-long [...]

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