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rickyaustin

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About Me

Design student. Kent State. Just trying to survive at the moment.
I think creative people are an interesting combo of ego and insecurity. The ego part is wanting to be great, and the insecurity part is not believing you're good, so you keep working your ass off.
— Lee Clow
Capture Accidents: The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question. Collect wrong answers as part of the process. Ask different questions.
— Bruce Mau
"Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people."
— Leo Burnett
"When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, buy you won't come up with a handful of mud either."
— Leo Burnett
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."
— Thomas A. Edison
"Passion will make you crazy, but is there any other way to live?"
— Howard Hughes
"Thinking life will be better in the future is stupid... I have to live now"
— Stefan Sagmeister SVA Subway poster 2004
Live your life. Read. Go to the movies. If you’ve never been to the ballet, go see one. If you’re a diehard Country and Western fan but a friend has invited you to see the Rolling Stones…go, don’t hesitate. Where do you think your ideas are going to come from? Enjoy and absorb everything around you. Art imitates life.
This is sexual:

This is what keeps me going when I hate design


My Interests

Cycling, design, architecture, technology, Apple stuff, anything that goes fast, Italian things like cars/girls/food

I'd like to meet:

Lance Armstrong, Milton Glaser, James Victore, the Aesthetic Apparatus guys, Stefan Sagmeister, Paula Scher & more peeps

My Blog

General Bloginess

Just some stuff on my mindMy life is as follows:" I'm too busy for my own good. Either my work or my life suffers. Its one or the other. Either I skip meals and sleep to work, or my work goes unfinish...
Posted by rickyaustin on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 11:57:00 PST

Put your money where your mouth is! A challenge to designers. Pt 1

How do you feel design can make a difference?This question was asked on a graphic design message board on a commonly used web-community. Here are some answers from them:Design is in EVERYTHING. It can...
Posted by rickyaustin on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 03:05:00 PST

Before 2010

I have the goals for this year posted  but I wanted to ammend it... for the next couple yearsThere are new things I want to do, need to do & will work to do. " I want to bike across the USA. Not kidd...
Posted by rickyaustin on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:25:00 PST

for 2007

Things to do for 2007 and beyond:" Start a journal that I write in, with pen/pencil/crayon/sharpie once a week until I die. " Turn a crush into a real girlfriend." Get closer to being a real designer....
Posted by rickyaustin on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 12:27:00 PST