Category: inspirational

Bob Marley and Money

The knowledge that Bob tells the interviewer when he’s asked about money is more then what I can say in this blog post. When I first watched this video it made me rethink how I value money and perceive such a tangible object.

Make Mistakes It’s Vital

If you are not making mistakes with what you are doing stop playing it safe. I’m not saying that you have to do everything wrong everyday. When we make mistakes with what we do daily and or striving to do that is how we will learn. The other word to describe it would be experimentation.

There are times when I am working on a design project whether its a personal project, for a client or etc I know that I have a series of failing that I have to get through. So do your best to not be afraid of making mistakes or failing both are completely unavoidable. Just Keep going no matter what.

How waking up early helped improve my life

Before I started waking up earlier I had no idea that it would be such a wonderful thing. I’m not sure if you do this but I would literally wake up whenever I felt like waking up. I would even set my alarm where I would have a limited amount of time before I had to eat breakfast,shower and head to work.

The way that I started to wake up earlier is by first waking up at 7:00 a.m and then when the clock went back an hour I started getting up at 6 a.m and after the time went an hour ahead I started getting up at 5:00 a.m. Which I never would’ve thought I could do such a thing. I got the concept from this video below and the importance of time and how we do not take it seriously as we should.

 

So after waking up earlier I noticed that I started to get more done instead of dragging the day along and setting schedules for yourself even if its just to take a shower,wash your clothes will get your in the correct mindset.

David Ogilvy: Essentials

 

“Tell the truth but make the truth fascinating”

I would really love to work at an ogilvy agency. I can only imagine how much I would learn about how the business works and requires to be successful.

Learn to know your weaknesses

When starting out in any profession you will have some sort of weakness. The best thing to do is to know what you weaknesses are. When you know what your weaknesses are you can improve upon them.

For example you could be learning how to skateboard and there’s a trick that you are learning. While learning the trick you tend to notice if you put your foot in a certain place and jump so high you will be able land it.

If you are designing a poster and you’ve filled up every single bit of space and used multiple fonts the weakness is thinking you need to fill up every single bit of space. Also you have a problem with simplifying things or that could be something else.

Always remember that knowing your weaknesses can help you to improve but only if you want to improve.

Barry Mcgee & Margaret Kilgallen

A beautiful part from Art 21 documentary. Margaret Kilgallen really got me more interested in perfecting

my line work which has been a journey. Also the part where Barry and Margaret go into the train yard that

made me appreciate and understand the history of trains a bit more.

Mistakes

Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.

— Brandon Mull

SXSW Interactive Keynote: Tina Roth Eisenberg

This was a very inspirational talk from Tina. I’ll have to say this has to be one of my favorites from her. In this speech she talks about 11 rules to live by here they are

  1. Invest your life into what you love
  2. Embrace Enthusiasm (no one looks stupid when they’re having fun)
  3. Don’t complain make things better (The best way to complain is to make things better)
  4. Trust and Empower
  5. Experiences>Money
  6. Surround yourself with like minded people
  7. Collaborate
  8. Ignore the haters
  9. Make time to think and breath
  10. If an opportunity scare you take it
  11. Be someones eccentric aunt/uncle

These are described in greater detail throughout the speech. I definitely recommend making sometime to watch this.

Learn about all forms of design

One of the most valuable things that I started doing a couple of weeks ago is learning about all forms of design. The main reason is that it has helped me grasp a better understanding of design as a whole. Whether it’s in architecture, interior design, product design, web design they all have taught me something about design.

Because before I would just focus on learning as much as I can about graphic design and that did not really help me to gain a broader understanding of how designing works. So I would suggest to whether your already a designer or just starting out learning about all forms of design can help you to learn how to approach a project. Since all of the forms I mentioned have a different approach that is need to solve each problem.

For example the Wright Brothers studied birds when they were building their Airplane, Da vinci studied nature and the human body. The list could go on and on the main thing is up to you to find out how to improve the quality of work your doing and or to educate yourself to become more knowledgeable.