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Tag Archives: Copywriting

Pictures 75

A Google Maps tooltip that made me smile. “This map is built for you”. Software for humans.

Posted byKarsten Rowe12th December 201312th December 2013Posted inPretty PicturesTags:Branding, Copywriting, Google, Ideas, Inspiration, Map design, UI designLeave a comment on Pictures 75

Words 84

Branding is what people say about you when you are not in the room.

Posted byKarsten Rowe14th September 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Branding, Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 84

Words 83

I want a life that other people tell stories about.

Posted byKarsten Rowe7th September 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 83

Words 82

Be passionate about whatever you do.

Posted byKarsten Rowe6th September 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 82

Words 81

It’s not that I have more energy. I also get tired. It’s more a case of choosing to use it.

Posted byKarsten Rowe5th September 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 81

Words 80

Treat every job interview as a success. You then have very little to lose once you get there.

Posted byKarsten Rowe4th September 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 80

Words 79

Old, wise or experienced?

Posted byKarsten Rowe2nd September 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 79

Words 78

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Posted byKarsten Rowe30th August 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 78

Words 77

Never miss the chance to dance.

Posted byKarsten Rowe29th August 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 77

Words 76

You have to create content before you can design it.

Posted byKarsten Rowe25th August 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 76

Words 75

If you want to complete a tax return or repair a dishwasher, go for logic every time. But if you want to overthrow a tyrant, write a sonnet, make something great or get people to think in a new way, then go for passion.

Posted byKarsten Rowe24th August 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 75

Words 74

Charisma appears to be a very special gift that’s easy to recognise in others yet dauntingly hard to inculcate in oneself.

Posted byKarsten Rowe22nd August 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 74

Words 73

The painful truth is that, at work, we’re on trial all the time. Life outside the office is no different – you are subject to obvious scrutiny on the big occasions.

Posted byKarsten Rowe21st August 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 73

Words 72

Above all, encourage each other, and make the work fun.

Posted byKarsten Rowe20th August 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 72

Words 71

Writing a business presentation, writing a best man’s speech at a wedding, writing an after-dinner talk – these are all creative acts but they require preparation and structure.

Posted byKarsten Rowe15th August 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 71

Words 70

The vast majority of presentations today are done on PowerPoint. Yet PowerPoint is to communications what a microwave is to cooking – living proof that easier is not always better. And just as a microwave is the perfect short cut to bland food, so PowerPoint is the perfect short cut to bland thought.

Posted byKarsten Rowe9th August 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 70

Words 69

If you don’t have confidence in you, they won’t have confidence in your idea.

Posted byKarsten Rowe6th August 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 69

Words 68

The bigger the problem, the more valuable the solution.

Posted byKarsten Rowe5th August 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 68

Words 67

Have you ever watched a house being built from scratch? For months and months nothings seems to happen – then suddenly the house is there. When the base is properly in place, the rest is easy.

Posted byKarsten Rowe2nd August 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 67

Words 66

You don’t need to escape to Yorkshire, let alone Marrakesh, to find some isolation – but you do need to find it.

Posted byKarsten Rowe1st August 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 66

Words 65

Unusual thinking doesn’t happen when you’re in a utterly usual space. You must find a new space to think in.

Posted byKarsten Rowe25th July 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 65

Words 64

So when you’re pitching to someone, you’re asking them to judge the future. Since knowing the future is beyond logic, their judgement won’t be based on logical factors but on emotional factors: trust, confidence, hope, ambition, desire.

Posted byKarsten Rowe24th July 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 64

Words 63

Life is too short so kiss slowly, laugh insanely love truly and forgive quickly.

Posted byKarsten Rowe23rd July 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 63

Words 62

Always forgive your enemies, nothing will annoy them more.

Posted byKarsten Rowe15th July 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 62

Words 61

I never said it would be easy. I only said it would be worth it.

Posted byKarsten Rowe12th July 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 61

Words 59

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

Posted byKarsten Rowe10th July 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 59

Words 58

If someone heard that you were a great company to work with (and decides to use your product / service / app because of that) and they then experience the exact opposite, it’s not only a neutral outcome. Instead that customer has an exponentially bad experience, because their expectation was that much more than theyContinue reading “Words 58”

Posted byKarsten Rowe9th July 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 58

Words 57

If I’m going to bitch about someone else’s work, what about my work? If I have a problem with how someone runs their company, how about how I run mine?

Posted byKarsten Rowe8th July 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 57

Words 56

You don’t change someone’s mind by telling them they’re an idiot. When’s the last time someone changed your mind that way?

Posted byKarsten Rowe7th July 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 56

Words 55

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.

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Words 54

If you find an element of your interface requires instructions, then you need to redesign it.

Posted byKarsten Rowe5th July 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 54

Words 53

Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour.

Posted byKarsten Rowe4th July 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 53

Words 52

Be friendly to those who enjoy your work and friendlier to those who attack it.

Posted byKarsten Rowe3rd July 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 52

Words 51

One who makes no mistakes makes nothing.

Posted byKarsten Rowe2nd July 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 51

Words 50

Get excited & make things.

Posted byKarsten Rowe1st July 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 50

Words 49

If 80% of success is just showing up, 90% is showing up early.

Posted byKarsten Rowe27th June 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 49

Words 48

A brand is not what you say it is. It’s what they say it is.

Posted byKarsten Rowe26th June 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 48

Words 47

Don’t be afraid to ask questions. Smart people ask for clarification on things they don’t understand.

Posted byKarsten Rowe25th June 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 47

Words 46

You have to make every single detail perfect and you have to limit the number of details.

Posted byKarsten Rowe24th June 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 46

Words 45

I would never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.

Posted byKarsten Rowe23rd June 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 45

Words 44

Great design will not sell an inferior product, but it will enable a great product to achieve its maximum potential.

Posted byKarsten Rowe22nd June 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 44

Words 43

Create your own visual style. Let it be unique to you, yet identifiable by others.

Posted byKarsten Rowe21st June 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 43

Words 42

The difference between a Designer and Developer, when it comes to design skills, is the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it.

Posted byKarsten Rowe20th June 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 42

Words 41

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Posted byKarsten Rowe19th June 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 41

Words 40

Always design something by considering its next larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city.

Posted byKarsten Rowe18th June 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 40

Words 39

It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.

Posted byKarsten Rowe17th June 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 39

Words 38

Questions about whether design is necessary or affordable are quite beside the point: design is inevitable. The alternative to good design is bad design, not no design at all.

Posted byKarsten Rowe16th June 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 38

Words 37

It’s art if it can’t be explained. It’s fashion if no one ask for an explanation. It’s design if it doesn’t need explanation.

Posted byKarsten Rowe15th June 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 37

Words 36

Good design must be defined by appropriateness to audience and goals, and by its effectiveness, not by its adherence to Swiss design or the number of awards it wins.

Posted byKarsten Rowe14th June 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 36

Words 35

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration.

Posted byKarsten Rowe13th June 2013Posted inWise WordsTags:Content, Copywriting, Design, IdeasLeave a comment on Words 35

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