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Today I learned of Tobias Wong’s passing, and can’t shake the feelings of shock and sadness. He was only 35. Tobi had an unmatched ability to re-mix cultural artifacts, making objects that comment on our society and explore the notion of value. He was the master craftsman of humor, beauty, and wit. When Kegan and I [...]

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photo by Jacob Krupnick Design Glut is a very small company of 2 people. We’d gotten pretty comfortable with that, until our latest adventure. As we curated and organized a show during Design Week called Uncomfortable Conversations, all of a sudden we were working very closely with a group of 15 designers and 6 sponsors. There were [...]

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Come to our show! We’ve curated an offsite event at ICFF this year, with 15 participating designers. More at uncomfortabledesign.com. We believe it’s the role of creatives to start the uncomfortable conversations that cause people to grow. “A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing [...]

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While SallyTV’s advice based upon the DESIGN FIGHT! article by Stefan Boublil was sound, I have chosen to neither take a Xanax nor get back to work. Cracking open a Monster and climbing into the ring seemed like a much better more fun idea. It’s Friday afternoon, afterall. [This move was not endorsed by Kegan, who [...]

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I discovered the Fuck Off Sarah Palin T-shirt just as my terror at having Palin as a VP was peaking. I thought, if anything captures the zeitgeist right now, it’s this. I wanted to know who was behind it. Kim Berlin is a creative director who decided to get political after she became supremely pissed [...]

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We asked our summer intern, Karl Zinsmaster, to write a bit about what it’s been like working here. Read below to find out how he got the internship, and what advice he has for his fellow students. So, I’ve been at Design Glut working on product development and helping with small business responsibilities for almost three [...]

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It seems fitting to end our first week of blog posts with the story of how Design Glut started. It was the spring of 2007, and we were a couple months from graduating college. Kegan discovered this thing called the Designboom Mart. The Mart gave us access to the world of trade shows, introduced us [...]

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Design can only change the world if it leaves the small circle of design-community intellectuals and reaches the people it is meant to help. That abandoned project in your portfolio probably won’t change anything. Neither will a lovely rendering, all by itself. If there’s one thing that I’ve learned, it’s that change requires hard work, [...]