Links for March 20th

Goodbye Google | stopdesign

Douglas Bowman, an amazing designer, was the Visual Design Lead at Google for the last three years. He is leaving, due to the company's culture of "a design philosophy that lives or dies strictly by the sword of data." I post this because it is a powerful statement that could be said by many designers at many companies that are built without intentionally creating a design-friendly culture.

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programming

google

business

culture

design

TCHO: Obsessively good chocolate for a new generation

I have to admit: when it comes to chocolate, I can take it or leave it. But when it comes to the ethics of chocolate, I care greatly about the horrible slave-driven industry that produces most of the world's chocolate, and take every opportunity I can to celebrate ethically made chocolate like this brand's. They also seem to place a lot of value on high quality design, judging from their website.

tags:

economic-activism

activism

fair-trade

stores

chocolate

• 20 Mar 2009
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