Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
— John F. Kennedy (via quotedojo)For better or for worse, life always seems to present us with opportunities when we get to ask: Is this what I actually want? Seriously, is it? It’s not a question that is limited to jobs, it can be relationships, homes,nail polish colors. The best part is that it’s up to you how you want to play it. You can ignore the question or look it in the face.
— Megan Baldwin: A Letter To My Friend Who Lost Her Job (via lovedesignlife)(via lovedesignlife)
There’s this myth that designers aspire to be artists. No — designers aspire to be really great designers.
—Paola Antonelli, MoMA’s Senior Curator of Architecture and Design, echoes Bruno Munari at a recent TED salon titled “Design Is Everywhere.”
Antonelli’s most recent book, Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects, based on her MoMA exhibition of the same name, is fantastic.
(via explore-blog)Find something you’re passionate about, and keep tremendously interested in it.
— Julia Child (via thatkindofwoman)(Source: theriverjordyn, via thatkindofwoman)
