Lowercase Capital knows branding

I've certainly heard of Lowercase Capital before. Tonight I stumbled onto their site for the first time. What a great web site for a venture capitalist. The messaging is spot on and fun to read. The mood and tone are consistent and interesting. I imagine it attracts a certain type of entrepreneur, one who is entering the world of funding for the first time. It's here where you're trying to wrap your head around the people & process. I can see the site reducing the anxiety a first time entrepreneur has when approaching an investor. Very few take the approach of Lowercase (and actually nail it). Well done, Chris.

  

 

 

The Happiness Process

This is a three-step process to finding happiness, inspired by my friend Liya.  

Step 1: Identify one thing you do that makes you unhappy. Write it down.

Step 2: Look at what you wrote down. Replace it with something that makes you happy.

Step 3: Repeat one week from now.

Update: Thanks Adam for the LifeHacker post. Here's a great visual follow-up designed by Alex Koplin. Read more about his inspiration here. (Props to LH commenter Maave for the tip).

    

 

 

 

 

IDEO and Steelcase update the classroom desk

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If you travel back in time and show a student from the 1950s an iPad or Twitter they'd have a tough time making sense of it; show them a classroom desk, though, and they'd see it's changed little.Steelcase's IDEO-designed Node chair aims to change that, with a modern re-fresh of the schoolroom desk-chair combo.

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Its most significant feature is the casters that allow students to pivot and swivel, following dynamic presentations, or quickly move the desks into circles or conference tables depending on the task at hand. Off-the-floor storage is provided underneath the chair, and backpacks can also be hung from the armrests for quick access to materials. And the generously-sized desk surface is meant to hold an entire laptop without any precarious cantilevering.Steelcase and IDEO have even taken the physical receiving of the Node into account: Shipped in three pieces, the Node can be assembled in 30 seconds without tools!Read more about the Node and the methodology behind its design here.via fast company

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