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Monthly Archives: November 2005
Media Design & Technologies, Final Presentation, 2005-11-10
Just how archaic are OSs (Operating Systems)?
Doesn’t the existing Windows file management interface resemble the Hierarchical bureaucratisation Maximilian Weber outlined in 1919 or something silly, as efficient but not particularly attractive.
Starting a Business, Part 1
Extracted from a dialogue with Erich Viedge
Considering some aspects of business:
- Invoicing
- Selling
- Structure
- Strategy vs. Structure
- Ideal Clients
- Homework
Students of Media Design and Technologies, Damelin, Centurion 2005
In order of attendance indicated as a percentage of roll call (which incidentally roughly correlates to academic standing).
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Starting my Business
Having thought about it long and hard, I have decided it’s time to compose my Business. Being no stranger to the contemporary meta-post-modernist jungle that is our information-scape, the obvious next step was to gather some advice (I’m much too lazy to disrespect the last x billion years of evolution by setting off to re-invent the wheel).
I do know a fair bit about Design, and my business will definitely be very design orientated. What I don’t know much about is the Business side. So I figure, if I’m going to have a design business, best I start learning about the business of making and managing a business. Call a Friend! So I called a few friends in business.
I phoned Erich Viedge, hoping to get either a pointer to a good book (been wondering about getting one of those MBA While You Sip Cocktails by the Pool books, but their covers are just so damn ugly!). Instead, what I did get was a half hour long initiation in the fundamentals of business, complete with explanations, contextualization, recaps and homework.
Mister Erich Viedge, you rock!
Some of the input from Erich under How to start a Business, Part 1
Shadow Box Ing
…lecturer, the word means reader, in it’s etymological sense, not entertainer as many students seem to naively believe ;- )
More on Classroom Styles…
I like to start the year by walking in and saying ‘ Hi I’m your lecturer, you can call me André, and don’t F**k with me.
The Challenge of Advertising
Is advertising essentially making something appear, ‘look’ as good or as attractive, as possible? How does this relate to making something appear ‘better’ than it is, and to integrity?
It is tempting to see advertising as perhaps the most artificial and corrupting Continue reading
God is
God is absolute abstraction.