Everything gets a brief. It does’t matter if we’re launch a product, a service, or a campaign…it has a brief. Why a brief? A brief forces you to write. And writing forces you to distill. Why the f*%@
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d almost the entire last two seasons online only. That’s right, something called The Legend of Korra, an adventure show about teenagers with the supernatural ability to manipulate the elements, pushed th
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Ever since a 71-year-old Brazilian man rescued a struggling penguin, he's been receiving regular visits from his feathered friend. Joao Pereira de Souza, a retired bricklayer, lives on Proveta, a fish
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John Montgomery Follow Dec 14, 2018 · 8 min read A couple years ago, I had a series of small epiphanies. I’d just talked with my team about how we were going to change the program manager role — the b
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I can’t tell you about a specific day as a cable tech. I can’t tell you my first customer was a cat hoarder. I can tell you the details, sure. That I smeared Vicks on my lip to try to cover the stench
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Hypothesis: AR is the personal computing endgame. People say that we tend to overestimate short-term progress, and underestimate long-term progress. I don’t think this is generally true. Rather, I thi
Unfettered genius. Unpredictable rages. Here's what it was like to work at Tesla as Model 3 manufacturing ramped up and the company's leader melted down. The young Tesla engineer was excited. Ecstatic
Japanese artist Atsuko Mochida has renovated a vacant Japanese home, making a significant yet, at first, barely noticeable alteration. Collaborating with local carpenters and builders, Mochida has pla
A fight on the Redmond campus about Chrome Jon Bell Dec 6, 2018 · 4 min read It’s 2012, and a group of us are in a conference room on the Microsoft campus in Redmond. We’re talking about Internet Expl
Stop Saying “I Hate Politics” Everyone in tech says they hate the politics that comes with the job. Well, not everyone. Just the people that fail, and people fresh out of school. People often use the
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Here are 39 ways to make your blog more entertaining to read and more pleasurable to write. Confidence Don’t begin by telling the reader why you wrote your piece - tell them why they should read it, a
For a limited time, Pocky, one of Japan’s most popular and well-known snacks, has tweaked its packaging design to be sleek and minimal. Designed by creative director Yoshihiro Yagi, the slimmed down p
When Wes Anderson asks you to help design his most visually ambitious film yet, you better be ready to worry about the details. At least that's what graphic designer Erica Dorn did while leading the d
I love my iPad. I am conflicted by my iPad. I am bullish on the A -chips that power iPads as the future of Apple’s computers. You know the drill, they’re here: Like clockwork, the sleek, new iPad Pros
Design + Politics The Center for Civic Design’s Whitney Quesenbery breaks down the challenges of a design job in which tiny mistakes can ignite a constitutional crisis Words by Spenser Mestel Publishe
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I had an epiphany the other day. I was in the middle of marking up a memo on U.S. drone policy while simultaneously ordering a custom-decorated cake for my daughter’s sixth grade musical cast party an
YANGON, Myanmar – In April, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg told U.S. senators that the social media site was hiring dozens more Burmese speakers to review hate speech posted in Myanmar. The situatio
all photos by Masami Yamada Although the Michelin Guide was started by a tire company over a century ago as a guide to fine dining, it’s practically unheard of for the organization to recognize the au
Is Beto O’Rourke running for President? This question looms large over the early days of the 2020 Presidential campaign. Sought-after campaign staffers and endorsers are champing at the bit to know th
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