{"id":25522,"date":"2011-03-22T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/we-need-hard-working-people-with-excellent-work\/"},"modified":"2011-03-22T12:00:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T12:00:07","slug":"we-need-hard-working-people-with-excellent-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/we-need-hard-working-people-with-excellent-work\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>We need hard working people with excellent work ethics. I\u2019m not sure I\u2019m aware of a group of people who work harder than design students. We need individuals comfortable with ambiguity. We need people who can simplify complex ideas, without watering them down, and transform intimidating data to approachable information. We need people who can tell a good story to soften hardened ears. We need individuals who have a knack for stepping back from everything and recognizing patterns in the big picture. The best designers do all of these every day, and these are the skills you\u2019ve been polishing (hopefully) in school. <\/p>\n<p>The tools of creation are widely available: they\u2019re out there for almost everyone. If you figure out what better is, you don\u2019t have to wait for someone to enable you. You can make it yourself, or with the help of like-minded people. Better is about more than typefaces, composition and color. It\u2019s about planning action and moving. Better is about change and recognizing potential. This world can be better. And we can make it that way. The world is not yet done.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkingforaliving.org\/archives\/1245\">Getting Better<\/a> by Frank Chimero (via <a href=\"http:\/\/unicornology.tumblr.com\/\">unicornology<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We need hard working people with excellent work ethics. I\u2019m not sure I\u2019m aware of a group of people who work harder than design students. We need individuals comfortable with ambiguity. We need people who can simplify complex ideas, without watering them down, and transform intimidating data to approachable information. We need people who can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6DE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}