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Eco Brands and COP30

     COP30  has ended last weekend after two weeks of proposals and debates. One of the presences on the debates was SEBRAE , which now has a program and courses for green companies . I have created a bunch of those brands in its initial stages, at the times when low to zero environmental impact and carbon compensation were brand new concepts or yet inexistente, but then I could not continue my work], and I wasn't credited or consulted regardig my intellectual property, as I've already mentioned , what makes me wonder if something similar has happened in the origins of companies that today are the biggest polluters.      The first of them was Surya , a local brand for Henna natural hair dyes created during my late teens that later expanded into a full line of hair products.      Then, while in college and shortly after, I've created others, including name, brand, concept, business ideas and some of the products of Mundo Verde, Natucor, L...

Four-Paragraph Dialogue

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Ambitious New Year's Goals

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 Goals for 2024: Publication online of my unpublished yet already referenced artwork uniting photography and typography. Recovering some lost work and republicating on my online portfolio. Difficult level: getting a copy of my college graduation monography and expanding it into a book. The difficulty is the getting-a-copy-of-it part. Alex Morris

In 2023, I

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     ... Restarted the blog Play With Your Type , about typography and started this blog about stuff design related topics.     Whereas I've been overplagiarized in the past years, I'm gathering my work together and working on some self-initiated projects.     Waiting on a better 2024, happy New Year's Eve! Alex Morris

Intelligence in design

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Intelligent design is a concept that applies to all things in nature, be it from the creation myths or evolutionary points of view, that form follows function.      Although this idea is universally widespread within the professional field of design and well-known by designers around the world, it tells something about how a design project was thought of, and may not be so obvious to people outside this field of knowledge. Thus, when someone perceives a design as "intelligent", what are the characteristics of the design product that lead to this perception?     Expanding from the observation of overall perception of a design, we could define intelligence in design as a combination of creativity and objectivity. Alex Morris