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Placement

Introductiom from Placement's website

The concept of "choice" persists through every waking moment. Within culture the act of choice redounds: it enriches our wettest paintings and enrages our thirstiest wars. The objective of Placement is the recognition of these pragmatics from a cultural, aesthetic and temporal dialogue. This discourse is not specifically in pursuit of the act, location, or persona but an appreciation of those decisions and intentions set in time: a "metaphysics of choice."

These observations offer an appeal against the deluge of sound bites and marketing feedback that are disguised as cultural anthropology. We concede and embrace that this is a quickly changing world with vast complexities, but it's imperative that the foundations that brought us here are considered in order to appreciate change as growth. Virtuous and Just ideals appear alien and antiquated in the cultural landscape. Here, we mean to challenge that assumption as lazy sophistry, illuminated neither by morality nor explication.

The examined life is the one worth living, as judiciously expressed by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR., an extrordinary Supreme Court Justice:

"Until lately the best thing that I was able to
think of in favor of civilization, apart from
blind acceptance of the order of the universe,
was that it made possible the artist, the poet,
the philosopher, and the man of science. But I
think that is not the greatest thing. Now I
believe that the greatest thing is a matter that
comes directly home to us all. When it is
said that we are too much occupied with the means
of living to live, I answer that the chief worth
of civilization is just that it makes the means
of living more complex; that it calls for great
and combined intellectual efforts, instead of
simple, uncoordinated ones, in order that the
crowd may be fed and clothed and housed and moved
from place to place. Because more complex and
intense intellectual efforts mean a fuller and
richer life. They mean more life. Life is an
end in itself, and the only question as to
whether it is worth living is whether you have
enough of it.

"I will add but a word. We are all very near
despair. The sheathing that floats us over its
waves is compounded of hope, faith in the
unexplainable worth and sure issue of effort,
And the deep, sub-conscious content which comes
from the exercise of our powers."

...

At the age of 92, Holmes was found reading a copy of Plato's Republic. When asked why? He responded indignantly that he wanted to expand his mind.

Life expands with choice. The act of choice is placement.

Thank you for your patience with us. And I most earnestly thank the contributors here that freely give of their time, their wit and their friendship.

Very sincerely,

E. Tage Larsen

Editor in Chief

Swissmiss

http://swissmiss.typepad.com

First post on swissmiss blog:

I agree.

"In all Beginnnings dwells a Magic Force." ~ Herman Hesse (German-Swiss Novelist)

limited language

http://www.limitedlanguage.org/data

About information from their website

ltd.

limited Language is a brand which uses the web as a platform for generating writing about visual communication. the idea of the brand in this context is a deliberate conceit - to explore how words, like images, are commodities.

language
cutting, pasting and recycling are all properties of contemporary image culture and are present in the way we generate ideas. thoughts and conversations are cut and pasted from one context to the next, taking on a new significance in each. limited language aims to capture this as a working process for new writing.

expanded

like an image bank of stock photography, anyone can be part of limited language by responding to trigger blogs. once posted, we encourage people to recycle your comments in their own research, as we may collage them in to our own writing, with the aim to publish the resulting articles (any post eventually used will be credited to you).

Coudal

http://coudal.com

From their about this site section

This site is edited by Coudal Partners, a design, advertising and interactive studio in Chicago, as an ongoing experiment in web publishing, design and commerce.

Plastique: Deconstructing Intimacy - Jennifer Romita

http://www.anotherromita.com

From her bio

Jennifer was born in a small town in northern Nova Scotia on the east coast of Canada. After spending her childhood in a rural area, Jennifer moved with her family to Ontario in the late 80's where she grew up in an industral city in the Niagara Region. Finding herself immersed in the conflicting messages and values of a larger city and its thriving (sub)cultures, Jennifer began exploring her position within her environment through art and design.

Eventually deciding to pursue a career in communication design, Jennifer travelled east to Halifax, NS, where she buried her nose in grids, typography and website code. Having graduated in 2001 with her BDes degree, Jennifer now spends her days working as a commercial designer. At night she weaves communication concepts and problems into imagery that compels the viewer to take a closer look at the human condition in our media/consumerism saturated culture.

Jennifer currently lives in Halifax with her husband Dave and their two cats.

All this chittah-chattah

http://chittahchattah.blogspot.com

As described from the blog

The fascinating minutiae of life. Indeed.

Steve Portigal

I'm just a Canuck in Silicon Valley, telling my story.

Core 77

http://www.core77.com

From their about section

The Core77 Army

Since 1995 Core77.com has served a devoted global audience of industrial designers ranging from students through seasoned professionals. Core77 publishes articles, discussion forums, an extensive event calendar, hosts portfolios, job listings, a database of design firms, schools, vendors and services. Core77 provides a gathering point for designers and enthusiasts alike by producing design competitions, lecture series, parties, and exhibits.

NextD

http://www.nextd.org/front.html

From their Purpose page on their website

What is NextD?

NextDesign Leadership Institute was created as an experiment in innovation acceleration.

We wondered if it might be possible for a small team of practicing designers to help speed the rate of adaptation, by graduate design education, to the radical events unfolding at the leading edge of the marketplace, that are impacting design leadership today. We optimistically guessed that it might be possible and if it wasn’t, finding out seemed like interesting research! To undertake that experiment, we created the NextD initiative and the NextDesign Leadership Institute.

The NextD Mission

Part 1: To help raise awareness regarding how the challenges of design leadership have radically changed at the leading edge of the marketplace.

Part 2: To help open alternate tracks in the conversation landscape around the subject of design leadership.

Part 3: To help several forward thinking graduate design schools and other design based organizations, prepare to meet the challenges of cross-disciplinary design and innovation leadership in the 21st Century.

At the core of NextD is the belief that the traditional model of design leadership needs to be radically reinvented to better adapt to a radically changed marketplace. The ultimate goal of NextD is to help expand designs’ reach.

Creative Generalist

http://creativegeneralist.blogspot.com

From their website

Creative Generalist is an outpost for curious divergent thinkers who appreciate new ideas from a wide mix of sources. Completely random and updated regularly, inspiration drawn from - and relevant to - the larger creative world.

This blog is curated by Steve, a creative generalist in Montreal.

Personism

http://www.personism.com

From her site

I'm Jen Bekman, a gallery owner, a writer, a New Yorker and a woman with opinions.

noun

http://noun.oike.ca

From his first post

Welcome to Noun, a site dedicated to celebrating the unique efforts of creative people and the things they do.

CPH127 - Design and Innovation

http://www.cph127.com

From their why part of the site

You sure know the feeling of excitement when waiting in the airport. Waiting for the next flight, waiting for great holidays, longdrinks at the pool, long walks at the beach or maybe adventure climbing in the mountains.

And what great people you will meet. New relationships, maybe everlasting friendships? You’ll experience that other people has other opinions, other perspectives on things that matters in your daily life, and you’ll feel happy in the very moment because you realise. Sometimes you’ll learn week’s or even years later.

We’ve chosen the airport metaphor because of that very fact. “Travel is living” as Hans Christian Andersen once wrote. And living is understanding.

Coming home from a great travel, a great holiday is also about different things than the pictures in your camera. It’s also about new relationships, gathering new information, new knowledge and creating a higher understanding.

With CPH127 we try to reach out in the world for new relations, sources, knowledge and perspective. Please join us.

BTW – CPH is the code for Copenhagen Airport, we live in Copenhagen, Denmark. 127 is the number of destinations out of Copenhagen Airport.

/Magnus, Jacob & Hans Henrik

Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)

http://37signals.com/svn

From their site

This is Signal vs. Noise, a weblog by 37signals about design, customer experience, entertainment, politics, Basecamp, Backpack, products we like, small business, ourselves, and more. Established 1999 in Chicago.

Red Antenna

http://www.redantenna.tv

From their information section of the website

Red Antenna was founded in 2001 by James Reeves and Candy Chang. Part record label, design house, art gallery, and literary journal, Red Antenna seeks to create socially and politically-engaging projects that educate and entertain. Learn more exciting details about the company below. Find out where we live, what the trade journals are saying, how to submit your work, and how to order Red Antenna products.

Good Experience Blog

http://www.goodexperience.com/blog

From his introduction part site

Introduction to this Newsletter, 2005

by Mark Hurst

January 10, 2005

This is my annual opportunity to tell new readers, and remind veteran readers, what Good Experience is all about.

Premise 1: Any business can measurably improve its metrics by examining, and improving, the experience it creates for its customers.

Premise 2: People can enrich their lives by becoming aware of the experience they get from businesses, technology, art, architecture, culture, and other experiential arenas.

Premise 3: The best way to learn about good experience is to *have* a good experience.

Good Experience, then, is an invitation for both companies and customers to think about experience - what's created, what's received - and how to find, create, and recognize good experiences in the world. I try to make the newsletter itself a "good experience," to help drive home the message.

The newsletter does focus on customer experience in business, though Fun Stuff and an occasional column reach to larger issues outside the business world. Other Good Experience projects outside the newsletter, like the Gel conference, focus the spotlight on good experiences anywhere - not just in business.

I find that good experience is easy to learn but difficult to teach. This is why I consider myself a facilitator, not a guru. While I have some experience and ideas to offer, the real knowledge comes from other people in the process. For example, at Creative Good, we build our consulting projects around the listening lab, a research process that puts customers in the leadership position. This Is Broken is built from reader's submissions. And at the Gel conference, the real learning comes from the speakers (and, increasingly this year, the attendees themselves).

BLDGBLOG

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com

First post

bldgblog 1

Testing, testing... Is this on...

Corporate, automobile test-landscapes. Deserted beach resorts. Ruined stripmalls.

'Highways, office blocks, faces and street signs are perceived as if they were elements in a malfunctioning central nervous system.' J.G. Ballard

More soon.

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

From their about section of the site

Wikipedia is a free-content encyclopedia, written collaboratively by people from all around the world. The site is a wiki, which means that anyone with access to an Internet-connected computer can edit entries simply by clicking on the edit this page link. Wikipedia is a trademark of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

Because Wikipedia is an ongoing work to which anybody with Internet access can contribute, it differs from a paper-based reference source in some important ways. In particular, mature articles tend to be more comprehensive and balanced, while other (often fledgling) articles may still contain significant misinformation, unencyclopaedic content or vandalism. Users need to be aware of this in order to obtain valid information and avoid misinformation which has been recently added and not yet removed. See Wikipedia:Researching with Wikipedia for more details.

Stay Free! Daily

http://blog.stayfreemagazine.org

http://adssuck.blogspot.com

http://gattacainc.typepad.com/my_weblog

http://ladymix.com

http://phatgnat.com/log

http://blackturtleneck.blogspot.com

http://www.backspace.com/notes

http://www.tompeters.com

http://www.worldchanging.com

http://www.thingsmagazine.net/index.htm

http://pullover.blogspot.com