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Brené Brown studies vulnerability, courage, authenticity, and shame.

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The Endless Mural: An Interactive Art Website Built In HTML5:

The Klangdom of the ZKM is controlled by the software Zirkonium. This moves the sounds sliding smoothly through the space following the "vector based panning"-method. Zirkonium is designed as an open instrument; thanks to modern programming and flexible interfaces the composers can play their spatial compositions in any room with different spe

At Create Digital Media we make beautiful apps for iPhone, iPad and Android. It’s a fine balance between art and science.

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Welcome to a great photocommunity with a magic voting system, editorial selections & professional portfolios

From Gatsby to Apple, or what the 1939 New York World’s Fair has to do with the evolution of color theory.

Bissell's paintings explore the idea that animals have metaphysical importance to our own spiritual well-being.

Read & Trust is committed to gathering together the best independent writers available—the ones recommended by the writers you read and trust.

Our mission is to help people to earn and to learn, online. We operate marketplaces where hundreds of thousands of people buy and sell digital goods every day, and a network of educational blogs where millions learn creative skills.

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As a CEO, Steve Jobs will be remembered for many things--not just as a purveyor of innovative, landscape-changing products. He'll also be remembered as one of the most powerful and charismatic orators and marketers of our time. Here are my top three picks for Steve Jobs' most compelling speeches.

One of our most innovative, popular thinkers takes on-in exhilarating style-one of our key questions: Where do good ideas come from?

The RSA: an enlightenment organisation committed to finding innovative practical solutions to today’s social challenges. Through its ideas, research and 27,000-strong Fellowship it seeks to understand and enhance human capability so we can close the gap between today’s reality and people’s hopes for a better world.

Dribbble is show and tell for creatives. Designers, developers and other creatives share shots—small screenshots of the designs and applications they are working on.
Shots are small screenshots (400×300 pixels max) from players to show what they are working on. Some have called Dribbble "Twitter for creatives." Shots are to Dribbble as tweets are to Twitter.

Chris Kaufman is an idea craftsman, persuasion engineer, entrepreneurial fireball, creative director and software designer with a knack for business.

Chris Kaufman is an idea craftsman, persuasion engineer, entrepreneurial fireball, creative director and software designer with a knack for business.

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Ember is the best way to share your design inspiration with the world - from webpages to screenshots, design to illustration, Ember is built for creatives looking to build an online design scrapbook.

Pentagram is the world's largest independent design consultancy. The firm is owned and run by 17 partners, a group of friends who are all leaders in their individual creative fields

Analog is a company of friends who make web sites. It’s a co-operative where imagination, design, and engineering thrive; good people doing good work.

Swissmiss is a design blog and studio run by Tina Roth Eisenberg. She also runs a monthly speaker's series called CreativeMornings and a designy, free, browser-based to-do app called TeuxDeux.

Based on our research of exceptionally productive people and teams, Behance develops products and services that empower creative professionals to make ideas happen.

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Hey, welcome to my collection of why the lucky stiff links. Everything _why has published on the internet should be accessible from here. It works sort of like a museum that sells maps. Many of his abandoned writings are mirrored locally here, and everything else is through external links.

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Enjoy documentaries, animations and alternative dramas on the web, on your personalized home page, or on your iPhone. Don't forget to check out our trailers, playlists and upcoming online releases. Free for personal use and on a subscription basis for schools and institutions.

We're not an image bookmarking site. We don't selfishly hoard images for ourselves. We're more interested in sharing the inspiration, website and artist behind the work.

Big Think is a global forum connecting people and ideas.

It may be a cliché to say that knowledge is power, but that doesn’t make the statement any less true. We know that there are just 24 hours in a day, that you are bombarded with information, and that the bombardment will only escalate.

LIZ Danzico is part designer, part educator, part editor. As an independent consultant, she traces the roots of her craft back to her parents. According to Liz, "Growing up at least a little information architect gave me an organizational advantage over my friends."

Nicholas Felton spends much of his time thinking about data, charts and our daily routines. He is the author of several Personal Annual Reports that collate countless measurements into a rich assortment of graphs and maps reflecting the year’s activities. He is the co-founder of Daytum.com, a site for counting and communicating daily data, and frequent designer of information graphics for numerous corporations and publications. His work has been profiled in publications including the Wall Street Journal, Wired and Creative Review.

Matt Mullenweg is one of PC World’s Top 50 People on the Web, Inc.com’s 30 under 30, and Business Week’s 25 Most Influential People on the Web

GOOD is a collaboration of individuals, businesses, and nonprofits pushing the world forward.

GOOD is here to help people live well and do good.

At AudioJungle you can buy and sell royalty-free music and sound effects for just a few dollars. The site is home to a bustling community of audio composers and producers.

In The Meaning of Culture, John Cowper Powys makes the point that the difference between education and culture is that culture is the incorporation of music, art, literature, and philosophy not just into your library or your CV but into who you are. He talks too about the interplay of culture and life, the way that what we read can enrich what we experience, and what we experience can enrich what we read.

I have some favourite books, but can I honestly say that one of them significantly changed my life? It seems more likely that my life has been influenced by the gestalt of the books I have read; perhaps any individual book could have been skipped without much impact on my life

Books still have the power to change lives. Which ones have changed yours?

I don't mean merely great books, or memorable ones, or favorite ones. I mean books that altered your behavior, changed your mind, redirected the course of your life. Books as levers.

The word Victoria is latin for Victory. Everyone at some point in their lives has felt or achieved a personal victory. The powerful feeling of overcoming obstacles and oppositions in our personal lives is somewhat indescribable, because every person has their own sense of explaining this feeling in which no two explanations are the same.

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PAUL RAND (BORN PERETZ ROSENBAUM, AUGUST 15, 1914 – NOVEMBER 26, 1996) was a well-known American graphic designer, best known for his corporate logo designs. Mentor of John Maeda.

Neri Oxman is the polymath MIT Media Lab fellow who graced the cover of our Most Creative People issue for her work tearing down the traditional walls in architecture and engineering.

Punchcut is a user experience design company specializing in creating the next generation user experiences for device, television, and desktop experiences. Punchcut provides custom strategy, design and development services to mobile operators, device manufacturers, application developers and leading entertainment companies to envision new mobile solutions that meet the needs of the rapidly changing market.

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I’m a Graphic Designer living in sunny Brooklyn, New York. I’m the founder and principal of the design studio Mighty, creative director for Typekit, a faculty member in the MFA Interaction Design program at SVA, co-founder of A Book Apart, vice president of AIGA/NY, founder of Typedia, a shared encyclopedia of typefaces online, and creative director for A List Apart, a magazine for people who make websites.

Graphic Design, Referenced is a visual and informational guide to the most commonly referenced terms, historical moments, landmark projects, and influential practitioners in the field of graphic design.

A growing network and enterprise dedicated to the progress of the graphic design profession and its practitioners, students and enthusiasts. At times intangible, its purpose is to question, push, analyze and agitate graphic design and those involved in the profession

If it takes only 50 milliseconds for users to form an aesthetic opinion of your site’s credibility and trustworthiness, are designers who create visually compelling sites simply wasting time and treasure on graphic indulgences? Patrick Lynch doesn't think so.