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Lazy designer's guide to success

Pentagram's Michael Bierut and his seven steps to success:

• 1. Keep it simple.
• 2. Don't reinvent the wheel.
• 3. Don't reinvent the wheel, rotate the tires instead.
• 4. Do as you're told.
• 5. Steal.
• 6. Once you've come up with something, never let it go.
• 7. Make other people do the work.
  

The linked article is excerpted from a lecture. Be sure to read the details, I just did the bullet points.

He Went For What Down On His What Yard Line?

Some Monday front pages from the Boston Globe and Indy Star after Sunday night's 35-34 Colts win over the Patriots:

Thanks to Scott Goldman and Brian Gross for these.

1930s design for U.S. team at Olympics

Polo Ralph Lauren is the official outfitter for the U.S. team at the Vancouver Olympics. The look is inspired from the 1930s designs for the team.

A lot of the designs are available for purchase (but they're not cheap, of course).

Great styling choice.

The Lauren site linked above includes video and a glance at the history of the Winter Games. The first Winter Olympics were held in 1924 in Chamonix.