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		<title>Let&#039;s change RFP to RFC: a Request for Conversation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know about you, but I often find responding to Request for Proposals unsatisfying. Either you&#8217;ve received it as a preferred vendor on a short-list, it&#8217;s a blind RFP, or it&#8217;s sent to you and 20 other agencies. The description of the needs and goals are either A) unbelievably vague or B) unbelievably specific, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Portland, just say no to spec work</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s Portland design community buzz on Twitter is the City of Portland&#8217;s decision to make a design contest out of the Portland Online website. Many of us reviewed the RFP released for project last month and found the budget lacking ($10-20k for a 140,000 page site? Right.), which may explain why they&#8217;re moving forward with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greenwashing, Energy, and the Rhetoric of Disingenuity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I think of coal used for energy, I think of China, filthy air, dire situations, under-developed nations, the iron-grip of Communism. Coal is the fuel of Tolstoy and World War I and the Eastern Block, a phantom from the early 20th century, a black spot on our environmental history. Coal is up there with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Refueling a nation?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are trying times. The economy is in a downturn, the war in Iraq lingers on, gas costs over $4 a gallon, and large businesses in America are losing money. At times like this, I think back to WWII and the efforts of the government and businesses to bolster the economy, how they encouraged thrift, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building a professional community, one designer at a time</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2008/04/building-a-professional-community-one-designer-at-a-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I decided I wanted to be a designer, I was going out on a limb. The year was 1997, and I’d just completed my bachelor’s degree in English, had no design experience, and had only created one (very hideous) web site. Back then, Amazon.com was still in its infancy and I wasn’t even sure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Things First, Revisited</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1999, Emigre reprinted Ken Garland&#8217;s 1964 First Things First Manifesto in issue 49. It was a call to arms for designers to stop whoring ourselves and start waking up to the social, environmental, and financial responsibilities we face in our work. Then came First Things First 2000 in issue 51, with a simultaneous printing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chuck Mallott&#039;s Five Principles of Good Design</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2007/06/five-more-design-principles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever been asked to explain how your design skills are better than those of a high school kid with some HTML skills and Photoshop? Or maybe you had a client who wasn&#8217;t willing to pay you a fair market rate for your expertise because &#8220;anyone&#8221; can design a web site? How do you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joshua Porter&#039;s Five Principles to Design By</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2007/06/joshua-porters-five-principles-to-design-by/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t count the number of times I&#8217;ve gotten in to an argument with fellow designers about &#8220;design&#8221; versus &#8220;art&#8221; and how they are/aren&#8217;t the same thing. My stance is pretty clear: Design is not art. Design can be visually appealing, attractive, interesting, exciting, controversial, but it is not art. The goal of design is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching is hard work</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2007/06/teaching-is-hard-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I always wanted to be a teacher. Ok, not always, since I also wanted to be a ninja or a breakdancer. But starting in high school and going in to college, the plan was to be an English teacher. Since turning into a designer, I&#8217;ve either wanted to go to graduate school or teach. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Design and creativity</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2007/05/design-and-creativity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 18:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the years, I&#8217;ve heard plenty of coworkers and colleagues complain that the design projects they&#8217;re working on aren&#8217;t very creative. They want inspiration, they want to cut loose from the corporate brand guidelines and do something wacky, they want to do the kind of work we all see in award shows. Sure, those kinds [...]]]></description>
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