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Jennifer Kinon & Bobby Martin are designers and educators who co-founded OCD (Original Champions of Design). Together they develop brand identity systems for a broad range of clients that include, among others, the National Basketball Association, Girl Scouts of the USA and Friends of the High Line. Their work has won awards from the Art Directors Club, D&AD, AIGA365, Type Directors Club and Print as well as Best of Show and Judge's Pick in the 2011 Brand New Awards.

Jennifer Kinon recently served as the president of AIGA/NY. Prior to founding OCD, she worked in the New York office of Pentagram with Michael Bierut, served as design director of New York City’s 2012 Olympic Bid and worked as art director for Graphis Inc. She graduated from the University of Michigan and earned an MFA from the School of Visual Arts. Kinon is the first program graduate to join the faculty.

Prior to founding OCD, Bobby Martin developed brand experiences from the inside out while leading internal design teams at Nokia, in London, and Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has also served on the board of directors of AIGA/NY. He teaches identity design at The Cooper Union and recently joined the faculty of his alma mater, the School of Visual Arts, MFA Design Program where he holds a graduate degree. He graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Jennifer Kinon & Bobby Martin

Transcript, context, and related artwork: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/02/17/dfw-leadership-debbie-millman/

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David Foster Wallace on leadership, read by Debbie Millman

Recorded at the New York Public Library. Details, context, and transcript: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/06/24/malcolm-gladwell-nypl-interview/

Malcolm Gladwell on critcism

Malcolm Gladwell on tolerance

Background, transcribed highlights, and more: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/03/26/sense-of-nonsense-alan-watts-tao-of-philosophy/

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Alan Watts: Sense of Nonsense

Context, transcript, and Strayed's expanded advice: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/04/13/cheryl-strayed-write-like-a-motherfucker-advice/

Excerpted from the New York Public Library podcast: http://www.nypl.org/voices/blogs/blog-channels/podcast

Photograph by Graeme Mitchell for The New York Times

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Cheryl Strayed on how to write like a motherfucker

Meditação Vipassana + Metta de 65 minutos. Goenka

Meditazione Vipassana - S.N. Goenka - Corso di 10 giorni - Adittana 65 minuti

4 minuti e tre secondi di mindfulness, per stare con le cose così come sono. Buona pratica! Carolina Traverso. 

Website: www.semplicementemindfulness.com

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/SempliceMindful





Mindful Check-In

7 minuti e 12 secondi per coltivare la presenza mentale. Buona pratica, Carolina 

Website: www.semplicementemindfulness.com



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Meditazione sul Respiro

Medium Body-Scan

Lets suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream you wanted to dream,
and you would naturally as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes.

You would have every kind of pleasure, you see,
and after several nights you would say, "well that was pretty great."
But now lets have a surprise, lets have a dream which isn’t under control.
Well something is going to happen to me that i don’t know what it’s gonna be.
Then you would get more and more adventurous, and you would make further and further out gambles as to what you would dream, and finally you would dream where you are now.

If you awaken from this illusion,
and you understand that black implies white,
self implies other,
life implies death.
You can feel yourself, not as a stranger in the world,
not as something here on probation, not as something that has arrived here by fluke, but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental.

What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.

- Alan Watts

dreams

Pursuit of Pleasure 7

Pursuit 8

Full conversation and context: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/06/wendy-macnaughton-caroline-paul-design-matters/

Excerpt from https://soundcloud.com/designmatters/carolinepaulandwendymacnaughton

True love, depression, and purpose

An inspiring commencement address delivered to the graduating class at San Jose State University. Transcript and discussion: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/15/debbie-millman-look-both-ways-fail-safe/

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Debbie Millman: Fail Safe

Recorded at NYPL Live. Background, transcript, and discussion here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/30/dan-savage-andrew-sullivan-nypl-live/

Alan Watts: Sense of Nonsense

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