Charlie Park

I love how Cooper divides their interaction design teams into two classes: Generation and Synthesis, and how each team is made up of one of each.

Kind of like ad agencies having a copywriter and an art director working side-by-side.

I’d love to talk with someone who’s worked there, to see how it played out in situ.

Steve Souders on @font-face: “Avoid using @font-face unless it’s critical to the page.”

Wish this had been out there before I started designing Monotask. Merp.

Via Andy Crouch / Culture Making:

“Sari Bari grew out of years of workers from the Word Made Flesh mission organization listening to women in the commercial sex industry in the south of India. As WMF befriended the women they would ask, “What would freedom look like for you? How would you like to attain that?” Based on their responses, a WMF field director in Kolkata, Sarah Lance, and a former WMF staffer, Kristin Keen, came up with an idea to recycle used saris, the traditional clothing Indian women wear. The saris could be sewn into quilts or purses and sold. The required speed-sewing skills were hard-won, requiring six months or more to learn. During that time, WMF also offers therapy, math and literacy instruction. But once the women finish the training, they can leave the sex trade and experience something more like freedom.

And the bags and quilts they produced were beautiful — so beautiful that the women realized they were making art, not just textiles. So they began to sign their work. In the sex trade these women often go by a false name that helps them disassociate from what they have to go through. But when they signed their artwork they used their real, given names.”

from “Sari Bari,” by Jason Byassee, in Faith & Leadership