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24 hour London time lapse

Bizarrely this from the Savoy Hotel, and I don't know why they call it "360°" but it's still a cool video. 

Free business quotes

This is not the point of the article but I couldn't help noticing it's full of wonderful, cynical quotes applicable to almost any business. Easy to reuse. Here's just a few.

"The New York Times is the most important newspaper in the world. But Wall Street, the family that owns it..."

"The Times, they say, is a great place to have worked."

"I also thrived in part because I heeded a colleague’s warning before I started: “Do not, under any circumstances, try to change anything.”"

Inside the identity crisis at The New York Times

 

Not moving the goalposts but making them smaller

Always good to see business jargon made real.

Hull v Birmingham has been delayed because the goals are too big and are being “sawed shorter”.

No, really…

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— HLTCO (@HLTCO) October 16, 2022

You wonder whether some of these signs are art projects

A few of the Dan Wieden tributes

I worked at w+k London for about 4 years. This is a collection of tributes by people I know. Storing them here for myself but I thought you might enjoy them. Trigger warning some of them are on LinkedIn.

Simon McCrudden, former Planner in w+k London
He tells a tale about the Nokia pitch "On Saturday afternoon Dan sat in silence staring at me as I presented him my terrible strategy."

Iain Tait, ECD in w+k Portland and London
"His brilliance was precisely because he was an introvert, not in spite of it." Dan. The quiet titan.

Michael Russoff, creative director working at w+k London during the Guardian and Honda days.
"I never met Dan. I was in rooms where he was. But I never met/met him."

Michael Wolff, designer and founder of Wolff Olins. It's on FaceBook so I'm not sure if you can read this.
"Like Bill Bernbach who, in his leadership of Doyle Dane Berbach, transformed advertising in his day, Dan Weiden took the baton and, with Wieden and Kennedy, continued to lead."

Creative Review
"If you talk to anyone who has passed through a W+K office, you will likely hear mention of the network’s commitment to the ‘work’ coming above all else."

Interview with the brilliant Marina Hyde

"Favourite Newspaper (apart from The Guardian and Observer)?

“Oh, God, it’s hard… I’m never off Mail Online – put that. I bet people don’t admit to it, but I love it. Never off it. And I love the commenters. I read more Mail Online commenters than I read actual newspapers. That’s another bad thing to admit.”"

Full interview 'Marina Hyde on the art of writing a column: ‘It’s a trade. You just have to fill the space’'

What is design? 100 definitions curated by John Sorrell.

In 1994, when he was Chair of the Design Council, John Sorrell was asked what design was. He published several definitions in a book released in 1995 to celebrate the Design Council's 50th anniversary. Now, over 25 years later, he has asked 100 people the same question and has published the answers in this book.

This book is a limited edition for the 100 contributors, of which I was one. Pictured below are just some of the definitions of design, including mine. It's a tough question and the answers are very varied, some quite of the moment. (I nearly wrote modish there but I don't mean it in a negative way.)

I've always really liked Ellen Lupton's 'design is art that people use'. I can't better that so I quoted it as my answer.

You can buy the book here.

Willian Kentridge typography

This isn't the main point about Willian Kentridge or the main point about the wonderful exhibition at the Royal Academy; but the way he uses type is great.