September 2007

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• Resources

  Design Meditations

  09.18.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  If graphic designers can learn anything from their past, it should be that the best graphic design doesn’t use the past to solve the complex problems of the present: it uses the present to reveal the possibilities of the future. —Jeffrey Keedy, Designer and CalArts instructor
  I recently stumbled across a book of design meditations […]

• Space, Creativity, Collaboration, Idealism

  February House: Experiments in Communal Living

  09.12.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Imagine W.H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee holed up in an old boarding house in Brooklyn, working as hard and fast as they can to create as much new work as possible before the US enters World War II. Can you imagine the discussions? The arguments? […]

• Events

  Join me at MX East

  09.11.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  It seems like I just got back from UX Week and will soon be off to MX East. My session will be a conversation with Sharon Greene, artistic director of the Neo-Futurists, a theater group based in Chicago, known for their long-running show Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind.  We’ll be talking about […]

Cartographies of Imagination

Collaboration, creativity, and the collective

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Cartographies of Imagination, by me, Sarah B. Nelson, is about navigating the world of collaboration, through methods, tools, techniques and ideas. I'll share methods, tools, and ideas to inspire you to draw on the collective wisdom around you. I'm an interaction designer and design strategist at Adaptive Path.

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