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<rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://tumblr.superfeedr.com/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"/><description></description><title>lam</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @laurenmeranda)</generator><link>http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/</link><item><title>Unfolding a bill.</title><description>&lt;iframe class="tumblr_audio_player tumblr_audio_player_41720040382" src="http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/post/41720040382/audio_player_iframe/laurenmeranda/tumblr_mhcqo7VTHs1qzdnfc?audio_file=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tumblr.com%2Faudio_file%2Flaurenmeranda%2F41720040382%2Ftumblr_mhcqo7VTHs1qzdnfc" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" scrolling="no" width="500" height="85"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Unfolding a bill.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/post/41720040382</link><guid>http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/post/41720040382</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:09:43 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>Train money 2</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/857244a83e989b78e0a747e4dbedf175/tumblr_mhcmmiW2Yd1qzdnfco1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Train money 2&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/post/41714051731</link><guid>http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/post/41714051731</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:42:18 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>Train money 1</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/fb235c6a7e8e050b6eb5d61e195b80cb/tumblr_mhcmlejyjD1qzdnfco1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Train money 1&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/post/41714009279</link><guid>http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/post/41714009279</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:41:38 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>"Relevance to Design"</title><description>&lt;p&gt;As someone who thinks everything is an act of design and can benefit from the perspective of a designer, I find it hard to explain any one thing&amp;#8217;s relevance to the field of design. It seems self-serving. Shouldn&amp;#8217;t I be explaining how design is relevant to said thing and not the other way around? I think I&amp;#8217;m tired of writings to designers about design. If I wanted to be an enclosed subculture, I would have continued to pursue being an artist.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/post/32399810345</link><guid>http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/post/32399810345</guid><pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 11:58:41 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Rirkrit Tiravanija, untitled 2006 (pavilion, table and puzzle) ,...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8ecu2e0eK1qzdnfco1_400.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Rirkrit Tiravanija, &lt;span class="wac_title"&gt;untitled 2006&lt;/span&gt; (pavilion, table and puzzle) , 2006&lt;br/&gt;Walker Art Center &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;In Tiravanija’s untitled 2006 installation, visitors are welcome to gather at a picnic table to assemble an expansive puzzle depicting Eugène Delacroix’s 1830 masterpiece, &lt;span class="wac_title"&gt;Liberty Leading the People&lt;/span&gt;. A pavilionlike structure, a replica of one designed by Jean Prouvé for use in French colonial Africa, completes a tableau that presents an amusing and ironic set of juxtapositions.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/post/28919409457</link><guid>http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/post/28919409457</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:03:38 -0500</pubDate><category>exhibit design</category><category>puzzle exhibit</category></item><item><title>Passed this gem of an ad on the train this morning. I guess...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7qa7lC51l1qzdnfco1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Passed this gem of an ad on the train this morning. I guess stirring up bad business connotations is one way to sell the great value[s] of your business school. Geesh.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/post/27992451917</link><guid>http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/post/27992451917</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:04:33 -0500</pubDate><category>bad advertising</category><category>bad design</category><category>yikes</category><category>mis-visual-communication</category></item><item><title>In-house design innovation </title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.aiga.org/driving-design-innovation-in-house--part-two/"&gt;In-house design innovation &lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;Part 2 of a 2 part article on in-house design that triggered a gentle chorus of amens in my in-house designing soul, ever stuck between idealism and practicality.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/post/27565431295</link><guid>http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/post/27565431295</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 13:00:35 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>"There’s this Pollyannaish notion that the most important thing to do when working together is stay..."</title><description>“There’s this Pollyannaish notion that the most important thing to do when working together is stay positive and get along, to not hurt anyone’s feelings…Well, that’s just wrong. Maybe debate is going to be less pleasant, but it will always be more productive. True creativity requires some trade-offs.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Charlan Nemeth &lt;br/&gt;Professor of Psychology at the University of California at Berkele&lt;span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/post/20121037046</link><guid>http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/post/20121037046</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:00:05 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Nike+FuelbandTracks your activity and translates it into...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/TtfJAyjkkGs?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://store.nike.com/us/en_us/?l=shop,fuelband&amp;sitesrc=glfl_fuelband" target="_blank"&gt;Nike+Fuelband&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Tracks your activity and translates it into NikeFuel. You can quantify your activity, track steps and calories, and set goals for yourself each day. Pretty cool.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$150&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/post/16768524179</link><guid>http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/post/16768524179</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:30:05 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>So… I’m trying not to buy every cool thing I see,...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxnxld8lem1qios74o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxnxld8lem1qios74o2_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;So… I’m trying not to buy every cool thing I see, but this is pretty awesome.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://cuppow.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Cuppow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$8&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/post/15951856740</link><guid>http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/post/15951856740</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:57:23 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>I kind of need a computer bag. Most really suck. This...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxcevsKJ8R1qzdnfco1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;I kind of need a computer bag. Most really suck. This one’s not bad. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.kipling-usa.com/product/index.jsp?productId=4448286&amp;cp=2999463.2999787&amp;parentPage=family&amp;cid=1152887" target="_blank"&gt;Kipling Digiset Laptop Case &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;on sale—$53&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/post/15405084579</link><guid>http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/post/15405084579</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:01:05 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>"This enemy of ours is not just Wall Street, it’s the whole culture. It’s a way of looking at us and..."</title><description>“&lt;p&gt;This enemy of ours is not just Wall Street, it’s the whole culture. It’s a way of looking at us and valuing ourselves in each other. And how you are going to move beyond challenging Wall Street … how you’re going to move to become part of the solution…&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You begin with a demonstration. You begin with a protest. But you have to move on from there, and that’s what I see happening now with [the Metamovement]. The people are rightfully, righteously protesting the corporations and the domination of the culture by the corporations and the suffering that that is inducing. But out of the protests they have to move to another stage.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You have to begin doing something that doesn’t depend on exposing the “enemy”. You have to begin becoming the solution yourself instead of just protesting and challenging the enemy. We need people to be reinventing the institutions in our society: Reinventing work, so that we don’t think that having a job and being able to pay the bills is what being a human being is all about. And reinventing education, so that our young people are able to see themselves as part of the rebuilding of our society.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;So many of the institutions of our society need reinventing, need re-thinking, and you [the Metamovement] need to do that. You cannot be satisfied with rebelling. You have to be aware that we are at one of the turning points in history where we need revolution, and revolution means reinventing culture.&lt;/p&gt;”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;p&gt;Grace Lee Boggs&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;(via &lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://oisinnow.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"&gt;oisinnow&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/post/14021867930</link><guid>http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/post/14021867930</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 12:00:05 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>She is so beautiful.</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lui1yhSQAU1qzvcg6o1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;She is so beautiful.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/post/13211578012</link><guid>http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/post/13211578012</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:16:05 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>M is for Modern. alphabet flash cards.

These would be good for...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luzaupsXgV1qzdnfco1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://fab.com/sale/1379/product/35655/" target="_blank"&gt;M is for Modern. alphabet flash cards.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;These would be good for my niece to have if I really plan on grooming her into the greatest female designer of the 21st century.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/post/13117417123</link><guid>http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/post/13117417123</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:20:05 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>This is what we’ve been learning to do. Such a great...</title><description>&lt;iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/30631480" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is what we’ve been learning to do. Such a great experience.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/post/12648669993</link><guid>http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/post/12648669993</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:25:06 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>Oh hello, future life.</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lt9xf7N3vz1qbw8y4o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oh hello, future life.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/post/11950425055</link><guid>http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/post/11950425055</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:00:05 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Hidden habits of ineffective people</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.quora.com/Chris-Wake/Hidden-habits-of-ineffective-people"&gt;Hidden habits of ineffective people&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;I’ve been working on most of these things.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(via &lt;a href="http://teaim.tumblr.com/post/11652131220" target="_blank"&gt;teaim&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/post/11908565907</link><guid>http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/post/11908565907</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:00:05 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>The Pie Hole Downtown Los Angeles’s newest pie shop just wants...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltd3xu2LTp1qzs2oxo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltd3xu2LTp1qzs2oxo2_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltd3xu2LTp1qzs2oxo3_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltd3xu2LTp1qzs2oxo4_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thepieholela.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The Pie Hole&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;em&gt;Downtown Los Angeles’s newest pie shop just wants to “do right by the pie.” &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;em&gt;(via &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://teaim.tumblr.com/post/11690521379" target="_blank"&gt;teaim&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/post/11865292619</link><guid>http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/post/11865292619</guid><pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:00:06 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Unblur tool for the next photoshop?
the crowd gasp says it...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/xxjiQoTp864?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Unblur tool for the next photoshop?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;the crowd gasp says it all.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Also, Rainn Wilson. random.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/post/11736439976</link><guid>http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/post/11736439976</guid><pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:00:06 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Bob. my love.</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls3amyHnUh1qawgyho1_500.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bob. my love.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/post/10731453296</link><guid>http://laurenmeranda.tumblr.com/post/10731453296</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:31:05 -0500</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
