Jan

26.09

Learn from everyone, follow no one, watch for patterns, work like hell

Scott McCloud’s books are a thing of genius – they’re about comics, but they’re really about space, life, understanding, design, impact.

His TED talk – which is on vision and eventually on comics – is equally good. The title from the blog is just one of the great points he makes.

(Ironically, I don’t seem to be able to embed it in this blog, so you’ll have to click on this link to follow up).

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Tags: comics, Scott McCloud, TED, vision

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2 Responses to “Learn from everyone, follow no one, watch for patterns, work like hell”

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   On January 26th, 2009 at 12:51 pm Sandy McMullen said:

   Thanks for bringing Scott McCloud to the table. The presentation itself showed a creative intelligent mind at work and matched and amplified the content. I was really surprised at how he mapped the jungian preferences onto his model. I loved the way he showed that being true to your nature and marrying it with your passions yields great results.

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   On January 26th, 2009 at 10:42 pm Christopher said:

   Sweet – I could listen to TED talks every day…wait, maybe I should…

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