ideasonideas | Eric Karjaluoto discusses design, brands and experience

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The Essays

Don’t You Dare Share This Article

How to Get Lucky With Social Campaigns

Are Wearables the Change We Need?

How Lo Can You Go?

Working Backwards from Digital

Start Saying the “C” Word

A Facebook-Free Future

You’ll Have To Do Hot Dogs

Beat the Creative Block

Whose Role Is It Anyway?

Please Retweet!

The Heart of the Matter

So, You Want a Creative Job?

Difficult People

Buying Creative Sucks

A Simulacrum for Action

Put Down Your Crayons

Your Agency On PCs

Random Observations – Part 10

How to “Rock” Your Next Talk

Your Bank Balance is at Zero

Lost in Translation?

To Self-Publish or Not to Self-Publish

Rethinking Stuff

Don’t Do Another Three-Way

Contemplating an Artisan Economy

Steve Jobs and the Star-On Machine

Dark Forces are Gathering

New Designers and The Moral Imperative

My Year of Failure

Random Observations – Part 9

The Licensed Designer

My Money Where My Mouth Is

The Content Delusion

The Taxi Scenario

Random Observations – Part 8

Words is broken

The most important question in branding

Is Tim Ferriss acting like an asshole?

Kids these days

Random Observations – Part 7

Would someone please fix the music business?

The cobbler’s children

No more employees (or employers)

Concerning design superstars

Epitaph for a plastic man

Sweatpants forever?

More mess; less B.S. (or: Nine simple suggestions for using social media)

Random Observations – Part 6

Drones at the karaoke lounge of design

A tale of two dentists

Stop acting like a sissy and market your company

Random observations – Part 5

Achieving “inbox zero”

The problem with AdSense

Oh my alma mater!

Poking the schoolyard bully in the eye

Don’t cage customers

Pleased to meet you

The future of the web is small

Random observations – Part 4

How to keep bloggers from hating you

Why your web startup will fail

A gratuitous plug for more of our stuff

How to save Detroit

Applying agile principles to communication design

Twitter is going to die

Is the sky falling?

Random observations – Part 3

Microsoft ads leverage flaws in Apple’s strategy

Self-directed, Part 1: What they’re doing

Running your own race

Aspirations, mistakes, advice and death

Random observations – Part 2

Can you rescue your ideas?

Random observations – Part 1

Talking “digital” with Saatchi’s Kevin Roberts

Turning the tables on Debbie Millman

The web, community, privacy and optimism

Reflections on Y13: Seeds of Change

Six suggestions that can make you a better designer

The inversion of advertising

The new ideasonideas

Blogs can kill brands

Sagmeister on celebrity, plums, and other stuff

The Heart of the Matter

Microsoft repositions to kick ass

Five reasons for MakeFive

Hey Google! Where’d you get that logo?

Five-Minute Celebrities

How to disarm 10 difficult client observations/requests

It’s not them; it’s us (sometimes)

What draws us to design?

Starbucks’ growth paradox

Spiekermann gives us the business

I believe that design can change

In defense of the ADC

Public address #1

Designing identities for small companies

A year of ideas: Thanks for a nice 2006

Five foundries that make us go “mmmm…”

9 to 5 = average

Yours is bigger

The greatest moment of my life

The culpable designer

Creativity is a discipline of learning

What would you do differently?

Web 2.0 is Bull, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Web 2.0

Think different

Branding tragedy

Designers must write

Is originality superfluous?

The need for speed

The value of Canadian design

Building a design studio

Unforgettable corporate communication

The erosion of design education

Reconsidering design

Grandma’s yellow kitchen

The dubious state of corporations and publicized goodwill

Competently okay

What’s up with the Adobe brand?

Reflecting on our ad campaign

The customer is always right…

Suggestions for young designers landing work

A little book on logos

Blah, blah, blog

A collection of lengthy, opinionated, and generally unapologetic essays on design, brands, and experience.

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Eric Karjaluoto is Creative Director at smashLAB. You can buy his books Speak Human and The Design Method or follow @karj on Twitter.

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