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Essex Two transforms information and ideas into understanding. We See What You're Saying.™

Chicago, IL
Joined May 2010
Some books I want to consume like Greek pastry, whose pages are layers of phyllo with images as rich and excessive as marzipan . . . in CMYK
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Some books I want to consume, like Greek pastry, whose pages are layers of phyllo with images as rich and excessive as marzipan in CMYK.
LEADERSHIP is about values, MANAGING is about skills. Clients are served best by accomplishing goals without sacrificing anyone's integrity.
DESIGN without ART is commitment without passion or love unrequited. ART without DESIGN is a monologue, when it could be a conversation.
COMPETITORS can be COLLEAGUES only if we compete with ourselves for our best ideas rather than with each other for the sake of competition.
GOOD JOB: Cynicism aside, neither truly accept praise nor criticismfrom anyone who doesn't known more about the subject than you do.
GOOD JOB: Cynicism aside, neither truly accept criticism nor praise from anyone who doesn't known more about the subject than you do.
BRANDING is to relationships what pitching is to catching. Without something of value passing back & forth, everybody just stands around
BRANDING is to relationships what pitching is to catching. Without something of value passing back & forth, everybody just stands around.
BRANDING is essentially a RELATIONSHIP between an institution & a person, developing over time, after shared & symbolic experiences.
BRANDING is essentially about a RELATIONSHIP between an institution & a person, developing over time, after shared & symbolic experiences.
BRANDING is essentially about a RELATIONSHIP between an institution & a person, developing over time, after shared & symbolic experiences.
We recently helped 2 young people get work. Because they knew what they wanted and had prepare themselves to get it; success was inevitable.
There's a difference between being confident in our ability & being confident in who we are. The difference in being of value & being valued
Post hoc ergo propter hoc; things that follow actions were caused by them. Inexplicably, actions are just as likely to occur by inaction. DO
Has the word DESIGN always been so misused, abused and usurped as the words modern, avant-garde or contemporary and I'm just now noticing?
PLANNING is to DESIGN, what ART is to COMMUNICATION; they are linked and entwined at a metabolic level, both mirror & glass to one another.
If you can’t change something, better to ACQUIESCE than drive yourself and everyone else around you crazy. Design is a Verb™
COMPROMISE isn’t finding a middle ground, it’s determining what you are willing to give up to get what you really want. Design is a Verb™
If you can’t or won’t “publicly” ADVOCATE for or against something get out of the way. Design is a Verb™