20/03/09

Apt’s links for March 18th through March 19th

• party perfect: weekend project #2 – “Last week we bought my son a ‘first words’ book. It had some common words like ‘car’ and ‘ball’- but the car didn’t look like ours and the neon orange soccer ball didn’t look like any we owned. So I thought it might be nice to create a first words book exclusively for him, using objects that were more familiar to him and focusing on words that he was either already trying to grasp (ball, momma) or words that would be helpful to me (milk, water).” Very nice
• Kevin Roose ‘09.5: If RISD ran the world – Columns – “Last month, a team of RISD students made a consulting trip to the headquarters of Random House, the venerable New York publishing house whose widely-publicized financial troubles earlier this year required company-wide layoffs…. the students, who were paid a six-figure consulting fee and tasked with “re-energizing Random House’s artistic mission by challenging our notions of creativity in business settings. [...] arrived in Manhattan on blue bicycles, wearing plaid pants and one-shouldered leotards -[and] spent the morning examining the artwork in the offices of several Random House employees.” Genius.

Posted by Peter Collingridge in Links.

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