“A chef in a restaurant wants his food to be more than edible, he wants it to be delicious. As designers, we should want our websites to be more than usable.” - Stephen Anderson
Joshua Menken
Photo Caption: Persistence is the word for the day. #persistence #bizlife #entrepreneur #entrepreneurlife #needideas #cutthrough #business #businesslife #entrepreneurship #headup #success Instagram filter used: Normal View in Instagram ⇒
Photo Caption: How often did you wish you would have just taken that step?
Miguel was a Spanish writer who was widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language. He wrote about never giving up, and always coming prepared.
The story goes: A ship engine failed, and no one could fix it. Then they brought in a man with 40 years on the job. He inspected the engine carefully; top to bottom. After looking things over, the man reached into his bag and pulled out a small hammer. He...
Photo Caption: Your story is important. Make it yours. #storyofmylife #grabahold #makeityours #bizlife #career #careergoals #business #chicagobusiness #businessowners Instagram filter used: Normal View in Instagram ⇒
Photo Caption: Live your dreams. Build your business. #business #liveyourdreams #designlife #devlife #bizlife Instagram filter used: Crema View in Instagram ⇒
Sculptures are amazing! I especially liked this one today. [if-insta-text]Photo Caption: Outdoor inspiration. #chicagobotanicgardens #derblog[/if-insta-text] Instagram filter used: Normal Photo taken at: Chicago Botanic Garden View in Instagram ⇒
Photo Caption: Sometimes we need to see the world through a different lens. #whatsyourfilter #beopen Instagram filter used: X-Pro II View in Instagram ⇒
Photo Caption: "But can't you hear the Wild? It's calling you. Let us probe the silent places, let us seek what luck betide us; there's a whisper on the night-wind, there's a star a gleam to guide us. And the Wild is calling, calling...let us go." - Robert Service #getoutdoors...
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Photo Caption: Festina lente "make haste slowly" sometimes we must slow down in order to win the race. #forthewin #slowdown Instagram filter used: Amaro View in Instagram ⇒
Artistic inspiration. Instagram filter used: Normal View in Instagram ⇒
Photo Caption: This made my morning. Coffee, where the magic begins. #coffee #energy #magical Instagram filter used: Toaster View in Instagram ⇒
Sometimes we are looking for creative ways to reach a place of solitude. Leave it to kids to help with this concept. Instagram filter used: Normal View in Instagram ⇒
This pressed upon me that we cannot have all of these at the same time. If we do there is an overlap of consequences that form. Sometimes great design just means more time. Photo Caption: Graphic Design. How would you like it? #greatdesign #properdesigntime Instagram filter used: Normal View in...
Let's take a moment and think... You see that wasn't hard. Sometimes in life you must take a pause. Reflect on what has just been told to you. Choose to not come back so quickly with some kind of statement that potentially you may regret, or even worse, could never...
"Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious."
Joshua Menken
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." - John 1:1 In all of society I believe that there has never been anything more profound then the act of putting words on paper and being able to distribute those words globally....
“Everything I’ve said so far could be summarized as: make pages which are adaptable.… Designing adaptable pages is designing accessible pages. And perhaps the great promise of the web, far from fulfilled as yet, is accessibility, regardless of difficulties, to information.” - John Allsopp, A Dao of Web Design
Joshua Menken
"Every day, every person who draws breath on this earth receives the same amount of time: 24 hours, 1,440 minutes, or 86,400 seconds." - The 5 Love Languages That's a lot of time to complete things, how ever you would like to calculate it. But, how does one actually get everything done...
I read an article recently on Ted.com about "When Shakespeare Committed Word Crimes."1 It shared thoughts about how he had invented new words and metaphors as he needed them. The culture was changing at that time and his ideas added so much to the English language that we now tend to...