The Thought Project

The Thought Project

Over a three month period 150 strangers were stopped on the streets of New York, Denmark and Copenhagen. They were asked what they were thinking the second before they were stopped. The Thought Project

Posted by Steph Tekano on March 2, 2005

David Berman’s New Book Do Good Design

The follow review by Mark Busse was originally published on TAXI Design Network:

David B. Berman has been demonstrating inspired design leadership for nearly three decades and this book is no exception. After decades of volunteer work as an international ambassador for the communication design industry, Berman’s book Do Good Design: How Designers Can Change the World is another fine example of his tendency toward helping others—and not just graphic designers, but all of us.

The book presents a well-researched and clearly articulated argument that design matters—more now than ever before—and like the First Things First manifesto referenced in Erik Spiekermann’s foreword, Do Good Design serves as a call to action to designers everywhere to stand up, take our seat at the boardroom table and start changing the way the world looks at design.

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Posted by Mark Busse on January 1, 2009. | 3 Comments

Industrial Brand Hosting FunctionFox Webinar on Choosing the Right Partner

Choosing the right partner to expand your design business can be just the thing you need to survive and grow, especially in these uncertain economic times.

Recently we published a short article about partnerships which was well received. Now the fine folks at FunctionFox have asked us to create a more comprehensive presentation called Partnership: Choosing the right person to expand your design business with and host one of their popular webinars on February 12th at 11am PST. We’ll try to jam all our thoughts into a concise 30 minute presentation followed by a 15 minute Q&A session. Here’s the promo copy from their website:

Choosing the right partner to expand your design business can be just the thing you need to survive and grow, especially in these uncertain economic times. Creating that partnership can also be fraught with complexity and the best solution may turn out to be going it solo after all. There’s no right answer, just a real need to cover all the angles. Join as design firm principals and business partners Mark Busse and Ben Garfinkel share their perspectives and advice for design professionals considering a business partner, and learn from Mark and Ben’s personal and professional experience.

For more information or to register for the webinar, visit FunctionFox’s events page.

Posted by Mark Busse on December 30, 2008. | No Comment

How Design Can Help You Survive a Recession

As President of the BC chapter of the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC), I recently wrote an article on behalf of GDC called How to Use Communication Design to Weather a Recession for Business in Vancouver (BIV) Magazine. The article, which can be found in the special How To Book coming out early 2009, is reproduced below:

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Posted by Mark Busse on December 20, 2008. | 1 Comment