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Quotes from AIGA NY: MY DOG AND PONY II #AIGAconnect
The above image captured some of the more memorable quotes that I heard last night at the successful AIGA NY MEMBERS SERIES: MY DOG AND PONY II. Each of the …
Designer Be Good with Daniel Schutzsmith
Designer Be Good View more documents from Daniel Schutzsmith. If you’ve got some spare time this Thursday, friend Daniel Schutzsmith is giving a webcast with Print Magazine titled Designer Be …
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12 months of condensed DesignNotes in 2008
Wanting to take a look back so I can figure out how to proceed with 2009, I grabbed a bunch of notable posts that I thought were worth spending a …
Twittering The National Design Awards Winners’ Panel at Cooper-Hewitt
Instead of doing my usual note based design observations I decided to use the tool that I voted for at the People’s Design Award in real-time at The National Design …
Hearing Dan Saffer talk about “Tap is the New Click” for IxDA NY at R/GA
Last night to a standing room only IxDA NY audience at R/GA for Dan Saffer presented what I’m going to guess is an outline of his new book Interactive Gestures: …
my notes from Interesting New York (a work in progress)
I spent most of my Saturday hanging out at F.I.T. taking in the talks for Interesting New York. I was really on the fence about going until the last minute …
AIGA/NY Smart/Models Event
I just wanted to quickly mention the AIGA/NY’s Smart/Models event happening Saturday May 17th at the Times Center in New York. It’s got a great line up of people (see …
Hearing Roger Black
At the end of Roger Black’s talk last night held at Frog via AIGANY, I kind of wished he had started the talk how he ended it. My friend Vineet …
Thinking about Mind 08 after the Symposium
After spending a full day viewing and listening about science and design at the Mind 08 symposium organized by MoMA and Seed Magazine in conjunction with the exhibition of Design …
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DesignNotes is published in NYC by Michael Surtees. Michael tries to explore people's daily experiences and observations with design. Recently he shifted from being the Principal and Creative Director of Gesture Theory to designing products at Dataminr. He can be reached at michael at michaelsurtees.com 
