Design Jones

I’ve blogged on Michael Bierut’s collection of notebooks HERE but in my search for design conferences next year I found this talk he recently gave sharing 5 secrets from all those collections of notes, ideas and scribbles. Really love his approach and honesty and find myself nodding along in agreement to a lot of what he has to say! You can view the video below.

Just one of the good habits I picked up from Ollie Leggett, director of IE, was always keeping ‘the black book’ to hand. Always there for quick notes, lists, sketches and thoughts – they have been invaluable. I’ve kept every single one and often refer back to them. It’s fascinating to look back through the last 7 years at least and read your thoughts on a certain project. My books tend to fill up fast as I am a compulsive list writer but the other day I found this fascinating collection of someone else’s black books HERE. Far more visually atractive and handwriting that can actually but read by others, I highly recomend a quick look!