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• Portland: Land of NSN (Non-stop Networking)

  

  10 July 2012

  I’ve been in this town going on for four years now, and honestly, I can’t figure out how there are so many networking events in Portland. Does anyone actually hold down a job in this town?

• Failure is the new success? Not in my world.

  

  14 June 2012

  Yet again, my inbox is full of a slew of notices to attend a design conference that features some hot shot designer touting the value of failure. I say it’s high time we stop that.

• Five design elements that need to be banned

  

  11 May 2012

  There are five design elements so overused in ads and other communications that they have lost all form of effectiveness. Read on to find out what those icons are and then stop using them.