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20th September 2001

Hillman Curtis Discloses His Cure For Creative Slumps

“I think every designer feels worthless from time to time… I know I do. It’s like being a creatively-blocked writer, throwing wad after wad of failed attempts into the trash. Only for me, the trash can is on my desktop. No amount of espresso, vitamin water or green tea can move me. Sometimes it’s so bad that I want to pack-it-up and get a bartending gig like the old days.”

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20th September 2001

A Letter to Public Relations People

Jump down to Dan’s E-Mail Rules: “Public relations in the technology business must be an incredibly difficult job. There are demanding clients on one side and impatient journalists on the other. In between, a PR person has to maintain a sense of humor. I get an enormous amount of queries and pitches from public-relations people. Many ignore my long-stated preferences…”

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20th September 2001

ergodraw.com

“Welcome to ergodraw.com; my attempt to create a useful, comprehensive and enjoyable site targeted toward the world of vector design; specifically Adobe Illustrator.”

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20th September 2001

ergodraw.com

“Welcome to ergodraw.com; my attempt to create a useful, comprehensive and enjoyable site targeted toward the world of vector design; specifically Adobe Illustrator.”

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20th September 2001

Inf@Vis! The Digital Magazine of InfoVis.net

“InfoVis.net is a project devoted to Information Visualisation, seen as the process of incorporation of knowledge through the perception of information, mainly (but not only) in visual form.”

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