The default state of the world is to stay the way it is, which means the default state of a startup is failure.

It’s kind of depressing, but it has always been this way, no? The new kids on the block were never the favorites immediately.

Startups have their advantages over the Big Co., which are low overheads, agility, and the ability to change rapidly. The Big Co. has the momentum, and infrastructure. For a certain number of startups, it is a matter of time before they become Big Co.’s, and for every Big Co. it is a matter of time before it dissolves possibly giving birth to new startups. It’s the circle of life.

Our very own Petar Perović — who is a former member of Superawesøme — has a new website and is back at it again, designing websites and stuff for screens.

If you need a ridiculously skilled designer, give him a buzz.

Great concept, I love how you can create your icon font by paying only for the icons you actually need.

The magic word that characterizes any creative job: “figure it out”. It’s what separates creatives from workers whether it’s programming, design, management, or anything else.

Aleksandar tests most popular running and route tracking apps currently in the US App Store, and compares them to the upcoming version of his Go Couch to 5k running app with very interesting results.

Hey boys and girls! Here’s a heads–up that we’ve published another portfolio piece; a site we did for lovely people behind Reef Agency.

Check it out if you’re into this web design stuff, cheers.

So… I think there’s a difference between skipping a phase versus internalizing a phase.

I feel this is the key sentence in this post. We rarely — if ever — present wireframes to customers. Half of them wouldn’t have a slightest idea what they are looking at, and the other half wouldn’t know what kind of feedback to give on them, so they would usually offer comments just for the sake of it (because they feel they should), thus impacting the process.

Customers should get to see the mockups, and make feedback from a business perspective, only when the designer feels they are ready to be shown and criticized by someone outside the design team.

Wokderful logotypes.

via @iA.

Kickstarter is really cool for a lot of things, I see it [and contribute to it] for large-scale art projects (burning man), but now every hacker I know has got a $25,000 wall in front of them called “kickstarter” and they don’t want to start working until they scale it.

blhack put it well.

Summer Camp aims to help designer-developer teams build the next generation of web products and change the world.

I’ve read somewhere yesterday that Brooklyn Beta is doing for designers, what Y Combinator did for developers. I agree, this is a wonderful initiative.