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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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This week we’ve focused on talking to people in the gifty-housewares industry. (That might not be a technical industry term, but I think it’s plenty descriptive.) I’d like to cap the week off with my first foray into gifty-housewares: the development of Egg Pants. I get asked a lot about the story of developing that [...]

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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, [...]