Michael Schrage on the (uphill) task of reaching consensus while sitting on a design jury. Majority verdicts, let alone unanimous conclusions, are far and few between apparently. By far the most striking revelation for me was the collective designer obsession with detail. You've no doubt heard the phrase "God is in the details" or "The devil is in the details"? This design jury had heaven and ... Read full entry

Or wheel of misfortune as the case may be. :)

Great poster by Harmonie Intérieure: Designers are meant to be loved. Not to be understood. More posters here.

A very cool range of t-shirts for the web geek in your life. Maybe I'm a hard core geek or something though, I never knew, I kid you not, what HTML actually means :)

DiK Connect is a brand new initiative from the Design is Kinky crew to help narrow down the search for creatives worldwide for your next web or advertising project. If you work for an agency, studio or company and regularly need to source illustrators, photographers, designers, animators, motion or Flash people then Connect is for you. We use our contacts, and our regular scouring of the web, magazines and ... Read full entry

Face Hunter Awesome fashion photography from the streets of London, Glasgow, Moscow, and beyond, via the cool hunter: Forget what the designers say, most trends emerge not from their studios but organically from the street. Cool young things all over the world are the true pioneers of fashion, wearing clothes in new ways by customizing and accessorizing and creating a pastiche of retro and modern.

Creatives don't wear suits because they're cool right, and only suits wear suits. So if it's unacceptable to wear a suit, and you may only dress causally, where's the individuality in that? (Just wondering, that's all...) To demand that one wears a suit when sitting at a computer all day that's a bit harsh. If clients are coming into a studio environment though good presentation does help a lot. But that ... Read full entry

Clients: Beware, and Be Clear! Memo to clients seeking creative/design work; a few tips for composing creative briefs: You're probably standing in the doorway of your in-house designer or at the workplace of a design firm, and you're holding a post-it note saying something like: "Need website with shopping cart," or "Need complete business identity: Be creative!"

Social Innovation Camp is like a BarCamp, but with a difference. It pits web designers and developers against various social issues, and gives them 48 hours to produce a solution. Not only does the social web enable individuals to create things for themselves, but as increasing numbers of people use the web in this way, the network that they are building becomes more than the sum of its individual ... Read full entry

Pixelsurgeon Lounge72 Whose next? Kaliber10000?? It's like discovering a bunch of your favourite TV shows have been cancelled...