July 29, 2009

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I like this format. A bunch of designers complete this sentence—

So you’re thinking about becoming a designer? If I could tell you only one thing about going into the field, my advice would be…

—and their responses are presented as pithy one-liners paired with longer explanations in video. Random-access mixed media. This is what the web is for!

My favorites: “Hire the one who can write” and “Focus: Find a topic, [..] find a method and focus all your efforts on it.”

(Via @coreyford.)