Posters that I find compelling

The Mission Minded Management blog featured despair.com for the Friday funny. I heard an interview with the CEO of despair.com several years ago. He said that people neither read nor get inspiration from the posters that are found in businesses and schools. There sure are a lot of them in my kid's schools. Imagine if someone posted one of these in a classroom and someone else actually did read it!

Just Fix the System Please - A Friday Funny

By Michelle Malay Carter on January 31, 2008

I’ve been called irreverent. Sometimes I use sarcasm to get a point across, but Despair, Inc. has found a way to turn cynicism into cash-flow with an entire line of products for people interested in responding to the lame motivational words and techniques that organizations attempt. Just fix the system please!

Below are my personal favorites. They are from the Demotivator Poster line and they are available for $15.95.

If you were to create a Demotivator poster, what would it say?

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Here are some more from their site:

Clearly the shirt is not for me - check my feedjit widget! Maybe if it said "More people have read this shirt than have posted a comment to your blog"...

This next poster was one that the CEO described on the radio show. Hilarious!


I wonder what it says about me that I find this much more compelling than the saccharine version?

Design, Logos, KidPix in a great post

If you didn't subscribe to Bob Sprankle's "bit by bit" blog or podcast after my previous post, you might want to do so now.

In his post "Mama, Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Designers", he describes how Dan Pink's book, "A Whole New Mind", influenced a Grade 3 activity with design and logos. It is a great example of reflective practice.

Do you have other examples of this sort? I think a collection of these stories could do more to convince teachers of the power of ICT than cartons of standards documents or pretty worksheets.

Fibonacci Gauge

I originally saw this at the magazine's site. I loved it and so did Ron Lancaster. Try making a Geometer's Sketchpad sketch of the gauge.