Lose hours of you life

 ..looking at stuff you probably cant afford/ will never have real use for.
A dolphin jet pack would be a treat or a dolphin power boat.

http://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/

Pinterest

http://pinterest.com/

My new addiction. So many awesome art/design/food topics.
The layout is designed to give you full visual stimulation with fast topic coverage.

Community Recycling

http://www.freecycle.org/

Great concept for reusing materials. New Zealand only has one area (Hamilton) set up at the moment.
It would be great to see Auckland, Wellington and especially Christchurch getting into this.

Give away all your junk to people that need or can use it.

Series on Creativity

 An awesome reading on drawing vs digital tools.

http://liviusnotes.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/the-most-powerful-visualization-tool-part-1-recording
http://liviusnotes.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/the-most-powerful-visualization-tool-part-2-processing/
http://liviusnotes.wordpress.com/2011/11/24/the-most-powerful-visualization-tool-part-3-rendering/

There's is a very interesting comment in page 2. Productivity vs Profitability of an Action and time.

Truely a great character

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/us/john-fairfax-who-rowed-across-oceans-dies-at-74.html?_r=1

ADOBE sponsored webinar series

http://www.aiga.org/webinars-breakthroughs/

Great Marketing in 2012

http://www.fastcocreate.com/1679333/the-five-keys-to-great-marketing-in-2012

"what people say about a brand is more important than what a brand says about itself"

Why its geting harder to compete with Apples design

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1668968/beware-of-following-the-gospel-of-minimalism-preached-by-apple

P2P University

 This is the future of collaborative learning. Although tutorials have bee around for years theres has been no centralised reference or standard. I would like to to see some collaboration platform like this develop.

http://p2pu.org/en/groups/

Company Culture

http://www.fastcompany.com/1810674/culture-eats-strategy-for-lunch

Co - ownership Design Biz model

Business model for design company's for profit sharing relationships with clients.
Create a more invested feeling in both and keeps the design cycle agile.

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665894/could-a-change-in-business-model-win-designers-a-place-in-the-c-suite?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Year of the dragon flash game

http://landor.com/#/locations/hong-kong/gong-xi-fa-cai/

Alternative currency

 Get paid in something other than cash, pay people for their time spent helping you. This is a way to get small and isolated economy's, ether geographic or social, to start creating and spending money and add value.

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1865467,00.html

Plastic Bottle Boat

http://www.theplastiki.com/whatisplastiki/

Misinformation is bad

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2011/10/25/3-misconceptions-that-need-to-die.aspx

Best business plan ever!

http://www.core77.com/blog/cartoons/coretoon_universal_twelve-step_business_plan_21163.asp?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+core77%2Fblog+%28Core77.com%27s+design+blog%29

Dolphin Jetpack

Too cool. Need I say more.

Advice for students - Web design and freelancing

more content to follow and my experience

Advice for students - Pitching yourself for contracts

content coming

Working on self motiveation

 Here is an interesting app for time management for those professionals or student that need an extra hand working from home. Especially if you do both and suddenly you time become very precious.

Pros: Will block/control access to applications and websites at certain time periods. Its the next best thing
to being in an office and having a boss looking over your shoulder.
I'm installing now but it looks like its has awesome data collection and presentation features.

Cons. It is sitting seriously close to the line of privacy invasion. You install it and control it, but you should still be aware of when its on and what data it collects, and who it send it too. Your asked to sign up on line for an account so does the company have access to everyone's logs...?

http://www.rescuetime.com

One Guitar, Five players

Small idea, Big impact

Here are three inspiring storeys of small ideas that made a big impact. I like the simplicity of how the problems were solved.

http://www.goodmorningcreativity.com/2010/secret-of-small-ideas-with-big-impact/

Generation Flux

A few days after I decided to blog, I came across an interesting article about chaos theory, and the new environment we all face today in life and in work. Not being inspired much by anything else I was working towards, and seeming to fit the whole idea of how I feel about the world around me, I settle on this. Generation Flux, the new generation of dynamic people, constantly willing to change the way they see the world, and how it can work for them.

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/162/generation-flux-future-of-business