William Collison, 1750
John Collison, 1778
William
Henry
George
Robert
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Ambrose
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Francis Collison
1860
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Albert
Clive
Samuel
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Nottingham, 1850
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Collison Street
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Samuel Collison
1886
Harry
Arthur
Eric
Jack
Dennis
Stanley
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David Collison, 1942
Stanley Collison
1913
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THE DESTINATION
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What do you think you’ll be doing
in five years?
Interview question
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What will the web look like
in two years?
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THE DOING
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ARE YOU IN YOUR WORK?
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It took me until my 40s to realize:
There’s no destination. There’s no
ge ing anywhere. There’s just
the going.
Pa on Oswalt
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The reason that most of us are
unhappy most of the time is that we
set our goals—not for the person we’re
going to be when we reach them—we
set our goals for the person we are
when we set them.
Dan Gilbert
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Not necessarily slowing down,
but rather just opting out of speed.
Frank Chimero
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SERENDIPITY
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STRENGTHS & VALUES
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To progress and to create work of
substance or even greatness, we
each must start by knowing our
values, our strengths, and the level
of expertise we seek
Strengths and values
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I have not failed 700 times. I have
not failed once. I have succeeded
in proving that those 700 ways
will not work.
Thomas Edison
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OUR STRENGTHS FIND US
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designer
developer
strategist
writer
educator
manager
web designer 100%
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designer
developer
strategist
writer
educator
manager
web designer 100%
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OUR LEARNING
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I’m self-actualised, without the stamp
of approval from any guild, curriculum
authority, or academic institution. I’m
web taught. Colleague taught.
Empirically taught.
Jon Tan
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The sad, beautiful fact that we’re all
going to miss almost everything
Linda Holmes
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ORBITAL LEARNING
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FOCUS
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OUR CRAFT
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THE HAND
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Cra smanship is a basic human
impulse: the desire to do a job well
for its own sake
Richard Senne
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THE WORKSHOP
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Discovery through doing:
honing skills over a significant
period of time, with substantial
commitment.
Our cra
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OUR TOOLS
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Tools are the scaffold for what we
produce, the enablers. They help us
bring our ideas to fruition.
Our tools
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THE MOBILE WORKSHOP
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The tool doesn’t make the
cra sman. Choosing the right
tool for the right purpose is a
technical and personal choice.
Oliver Reichenstein
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CREATIVE INQUIRY
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Inquiring beyond the “necessary”
to explore other areas, look at
things differently, and bring these
findings back into our work.
Creative inquiry
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A puzzle is be er than an answer
Milton Glaser
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DRONE
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THE COMPLETE
DESIGNER
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Find problems and design responses.
Not answers, not solutions.
Responses.
The complete designer
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We are the builders. We are the
makers. We are the users.
We are the explorers.
The complete designer