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Who Gets What ― and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design

by Alvin E. Roth

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Noba Psychology: The Full Noba Collection

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“All art is relationships, all art. Design is relationships. Design in a relationship between form and content... Your glasses are round. Your collar is diagonal. These are relationships. Your mouth is an oval. Your nose is a triangle - this is what design is.”
― Paul Rand

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“Public and civic value require commitment and hard work among the core group of participants. It also requires that these groups be self-governing and submit to constraints that help them ignore distracting and entertaining material and stay focused instead of some sophisticated task.”
― Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age

tags: civic-value, community, new-media, public-value, value

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“Graphic Design for its own sake will never happen, because the concept cancels itself out — a poster about nothing other than itself is not Graphic Design, it's … makin' ART.”
― Chip Kidd, The Cheese Monkeys

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“In essence, it is not what it looks like but what it does that defines a symbol.”
― Paul Rand, Thoughts on Design

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“I find it somewhat ironic that many conservatives in the United States are adamant about securing the border against immigrants who will likely take jobs that few Americans want, while at the same time expressing little concern that the virtual border is left completely open to higher-skill workers who take jobs that Americans definitely do want.”
― Martin Ford, Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

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