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Jim Coudal

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Jim Coudal is the founder of Chicago's very own creative company, Coudal Partners. Jim and his crew transitioned from being a traditional design office to a company that pursues passion projects they truly give a damn about. Some of their experiments include Field Notes memo books, The Deck ad network and even the Adobe-sponsored Layer Tennis matches on Fridays. If you don't see Coudal Partners editing new content for their site, it's probably because Jim is off speaking at another major design conference.

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Humbly delivered on March 11th, 2010.

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9 Responses to “Jim Coudal”

Robynne Raye

I LOVE this advice, really helpful to young designers.
kara fellows

Great exercise! A great way to get students to identify typefaces, too.
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Nadia

As a new design student, I think that this advice is something that has held true generation over generation but is still somewhat shunned by new designers. In fields like writing, you always hear “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” and yet in design, if you’re not aiming to do something new, then you’re criticized.

I know that I still have a lot to learn with design and learning from those I admire will be my ticket to developing my own design sensibilities.

Thanks for this!
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Jillian Adel

“It’s not where you take things from, it’s where you take them to.” – Jean-Luc Godard
Tammy Jones

This is such GREAT advice! I haven’t learned this in a textbook or in any program. Thank you to a new friend who passed this on from Stress Design.
Matt Kempster

Unexpected but great advice.

Always good for learning something new!
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