the process

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why are we doing this?

i know y'all are smart, but it doesn't hurt to remind you.

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spanish lesson

from Married to the Sea

baby boy is now a man

And then one day, he suddenly grew up and made us all proud. My brother is graduating.



I remember a few years ago when I was still living in Indianapolis there was a Tide commercial going on that had this really pretty song and I used to think about my brother every time I heard it. Hopefully he'll find his way here, listen to it and cry.



(And congrats to this girl here, too. Not too shabby!)

on how b-schools have failed

I remember reading "M.F.A is the new M.B.A" while I was a student at Herron and today's New York Times has proved to me again that this is a great time in History to be a designer and a right brain thinker.

But with the economy in disarray and so many financial firms in free fall, analysts, and even educators themselves, are wondering if the way business students are taught may have contributed to the most serious economic crisis in decades.

“It is so obvious that something big has failed,” said Ángel Cabrera, dean of the Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Ariz. “We can look the other way, but come on. The C.E.O.’s of those companies, those are people we used to brag about. We cannot say, ‘Well, it wasn’t our fault’ when there is such a systemic, widespread failure of leadership.”

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“There is a need to broaden from the analytical focus of M.B.A. programs for more emphasis on skills and a sense of purpose and identity,” said David A. Garvin, a professor of business administration and one of the project’s authors.

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Business education “accentuates the simple technical pieces,” said Ms. Samuelson of the Aspen Institute, and “ignores the real complexity and, frankly, the really exciting opportunities business has to be the driver of long-term prosperity.”

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MFA is the new MBA was published in 2003 by Harvard Business Review's Breatkthrough Ideas for 2004. It's available for download here or you can purchase the article here.

i could play this all day

I'm getting really good at this. Now go play.

type in motion / makes me want to cry

Flickermood 2.0 from Sebastian Lange on Vimeo.

the complexity of the credit crisis simplified

This project is the result of Jonathan Jarvis' thesis work in the Media Design Program, a graduate studio at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.

Alicia Lynn

I'm in love with everything this woman does.
+ etsy
+ bread & honey
+ 10 dollar drawings
+ alicialynncarrier.com
+ flickr

I want her to draw my next tattoo.

who shot the serif

From typo/graphic posters.

pretty things i'm in love with

unscientific yet accurate

from brainz: grey matter at its best