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Episode 85: No Limit [recorded October 9th, 2014]

This week we talked about sticking to a process and saying no. Also, Dan is looking for another designer at FitMob. You can email dan at fitmob dot com.

Barometer++ ripoff

Defining the Visual Style of Southern Hip Hop

Pen & Pixel

No Limit Records

Webstock '13: Mike Monteiro - How Designers Destroyed the World

Peter Mendelsund

Cover

What We See When We Read

Comedy Death Camp

Saying No

Dan Cassaro to Showtime

Jodorowsky's Dune

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Episode 84: Big in Germany [recorded October 2nd, 2014]

This week we wondered why we're talking about Ello and Adobe let us see a slide deck preview of this Keynote on Thursday.

Extract, Behance Talent Search & Shape

Ello

Barometer++

Dayswork

RescueTime

TV Tropes

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Episode 83: Office Space [recorded September 25th, 2014]

This week we answered some listener mail about the spaces we work in and how we design our lives.

Note: the audio issues early in the episode only last for the first minute. 

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Episode 82: Dan Auer could be Banksy [recorded September 18th, 2014]

This week we talked about symbols... or people. Also:

Dayswork

Desert Golfing

Destiny

I’m leaving Mojang

This is Phil Fish

From the Porch to the Street

Ditching Twitter

Anita Sarkeesian

FastCo episode

The Trustworthiness of Beards

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Episode 81: Praiseworthy [recorded September 11, 2014]

This week, Andy talks to us about the closing of Berg

Apple Watch & Custom typeface

Berg closes

Little Printer

Other Berg projects

Reactions on Twitter: @maxfenton  @heavymeta  @pieratt  @tealtan @greatdismal​ @gsvoss @juhavantzelfde

A visual history of Berg

Allen Tan’s Berg bookmarks

OkFocus

Drake Shake

Mozilla Factory Space

Hacking IKEA

Bonus: Dan’s Emoji Face

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Episode 80: Die Neue Web Typographie [recorded September 4th, 2014]

This week we talked about subjective vs. objective design decisions and:

Proof of Dan’s PAX Story

Twitter changes font again because everyone hated the old one

Rdio updates apps and web client with major redesign

Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio

iA Responsive Typography

The League of Moveable Type

Disobedient Objects

Disobedient Objects on Barnbrook’s blog

Makeshift Tear-Gas Mask

Defending Against Tear Gas

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Episode 79: Average Confidence [recorded August 29th, 2014]

Matt was on vacation Dan and Andy talked to Mills Baker about Confidence and: 

How to Be Polite

HyperCard

Jonah Peretti

The Beginning of Infinity

Healthcare.gov

Detroit Water Project

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Episode 78: Unqualified [recorded August 21st, 2014]

We discussed the events in Ferguson and explored how the media has affected it.

Grouper eats 4ft shark in one bite

Milwaukee Police Department

OLO

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Episode 77: Contested [recorded August 14th, 2014]

This week Andy shared an experiment with us and we discussed:

The $5 Logo

Dan Cassaro doesn’t work for free

Andy’s contest page on 99Designs

Design as Commodity: An Experiment with 99 Designs

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Episode 76: Say You Don’t Know [recorded August 7th, 2014]

We were joined by Gitamba Saila Ngita to talk about his work in Strategic Design and:

Hartford Whalers

Dan Hill - Dark Matter & Trojan Horses

99% Invisible: Ten Thousand Years

The Black Cube

First Things First 1964 manifesto

First Things First 2014

Larry Page Wants Earth To Have A Mad Scientist Island

Questions for the New Design Observer

John Maeda

Black Jesus

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Episode 75: A Very Particular Set of Skills [recorded July 31, 2014]

This week we were joined by Ellen Chisa. We discussed:

Globe Script by Dai Foldes

Ellen’s reasons for going to Harvard Business School

My Dream Design Curriculum

Calvin and Hobbes

Dear Mr. Watterson

Gutenberg Chews

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Episode 74: Better Judgement [recorded July 24, 2014]

This week we talked about criticism and judgement. Also:

Soylent

Tuft & Needle

The Disapproval Matrix

Design Observer

Medium / Branch

r/TumblrInAction vs r/ShitRedditSays

Chatroulette

Kim Kardashian may make 85 million from her app

You are not a storyteller - Stefan Sagmeister

Textile or Markdown. Whichever you prefer.

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Episode 73: The Stories We Tell Ourselves [recorded July 17th, 2014]

This week we talked about launching new identities, telling stories, and:

Video Games: The Movie

The International Dota 2 Championships

College Football Playoff National Championship Trophy

Airbnb's new mark and identity 

Our friends call us The Shack

MercyCorps on Brand New

Original Nike Logo

xkcd

The Book of Warriors

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Episode 72: Turning the Knobs [recorded July 3rd, 2014]

This week we talked about Facebook's emotional contagion experiment. Also:

Game of Thrones Cosplay

Darkon

What the Facebook Controversy is Really About

Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks

OkTrends

Gone Home

This week's episode of On the Grid is sponsored by Sketchcasts. Listeners can get 25% off your membership price, forever by visiting sketchcasts.net/onthegrid

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Episode 71: Forever the Devil’s Advocate [recorded June 26th, 2014]

This week Emily Haasch of Cards Against Humanity joined us for an hour to talk about place and social design. We mentioned:

Svpply shutting down

Kickstarter for new Svpply

The Return of Upcoming.org

Everyblock

Pielab

Design Book Club

This episode was sponsored by Astute Graphics. Check out Autosaviour, a free Illustrator plugin.

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Episode 70: Pinspiration [recorded June 19th, 2014]

This week we answered a listener email about inspiration. We mentioned:

No Man’s Sky

Harley-Davidson Project Livewire

DesignLab at MailChimp

PatternTap

Graphic Ambient

Eyes, Eyes, and Filters

Tag Savage: A Man

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Episode 69: On the Leading [recorded June 15th, 2014]

Andy couldn’t make it this week, so we were joined by Aaron Heth, who used to co-host Read Between the Leading with Matt, and we talked about:

You Smell Soap

Turner Duckworth’s Metallica Death Magnetic Packaging 

Stiffed by 'Shark Tank' 

Aaron’s Revui Channel

Diegetic Interface

The Division: Holographic Map [1:26]

Tearaway