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Design, and Other, Blogs

There's a new entry on our blogroll. Take a look at design*sponge. The entry that hooked Tom was this. If you count the bespoke tailoring blog (English Cut) as a design blog, then we now have two.

This reminds me that there are many blogs we barely explore because business is our focus at tompeters.com. For instance, in researching the ChangeThis post I did on Friday, I found a poetry blog. Crystal King wrote a management manifesto for ChangeThis, but she also writes poetry.crystallyn.com. I'm adding that to our blogroll, too, because, yes, we think poetry has its place on a business blog.

Cathy Mosca posted this on 09/12/05.

Comments

"Business is our focus." Well, yes, as is ours at Bare Feet Studios. But, as Dan Pink points out, we need to use both sides of the brain...sooo, great to see more creative blogs in your blogroll. Personally, I read and look at all kinds of things - from comic books - um, ahem - "graphic novels" to dry academic publications on such things as military tactic analysis, sociology and foreign policy. Great ways to rattle the synapses out of their regular patterns.

Posted by Mary Schmidt at September 12, 2005 8:41 PM

Actually, you have THREE blogs about design.

Metacool (a long-standing member of your illustrious blogroll) is a blog about getting cool stuff done via design thinking. It's a design blog for everyone -- not just designers!

Posted by Diego Rodriguez at September 12, 2005 9:21 PM

Folks,

I suggest 3 books (not blogs) on design.

1) In the Bubble: Designing in a complex world by John Thackara.

2) Designing for Humans by Jan Noyes

3) Design for Society by Nigel Whiteley

Happy reading...

Cheers!

Posted by K.Sriram at September 12, 2005 10:11 PM

Hmmm... the Thackara book is a good one, for sure. But I would read Don Norman's "Emotional Design" before the other two.

How about reading those books AND reading blogs about design?

Posted by Diego at September 13, 2005 12:01 AM

I agree about poetry and business Cathy.

The arts generally have a wonderful role to play in management and business.

Annie and I provide inter-active role playing workshops in healthcare settings â€“ called â€˜Trust Me Iâ€™m a Patientâ€™.

The workshop runs for about two and a half hours and is designed to win hearts and minds of managers and front line staff about involving patients.

We use drama effectively - according to our delegate feedback. One very experienced and senior public health doctor recently told us that she had attended hundreds of conference and courses in her long career and this â€˜Trust Me Iâ€™m a Patientâ€™ was one of the very few that actually made an impact on her thinking and she felt it was because of the use of drama.

We also use poetry as a part of the workshop in order to get a message over verbally.

The subject of using the arts within management deserves more discussion Cathy â€“ thank so much for raising this important issue.

I would love to hear more views

Posted by Trevor Gay at September 13, 2005 3:49 AM

Diego, thanks for pointing that out about Metacool, you are so right, three. K.Sriram and Diego, thanks for the book recommendations. I'm always looking for those. And Mary and Trevor, I'm glad to hear about poetry's business apps. Thank you all.

Posted by cathy at September 13, 2005 8:25 AM

Cathy,

I like it. Thanks for the recommendation.

Here's another fabulous design site...food design.
Link: www.ideasinfood.com

Michael

Posted by Michael Chaffin at September 14, 2005 9:31 AM

Michael, wowee! The pictures there make me want to start cooking right away! And that's an impulse I've resisted for a very long time.

Posted by cathy at September 15, 2005 3:44 PM

I am curious about the author or the new referred blog not popping up here to say something. Does she know at all? I guess that blog has been chosen for being paradigmatic about something...

Posted by Omara at September 16, 2005 5:38 PM