pre sent over this link from metacool about authenticity. It made me think, it falls inline with what has been on my mind lately...creativity what is means to be a designer, working with other designers, grasping an experience and repurposing it..gaining perspective, giving people the space to be.
I have debated about coping it here or just having the link, I am going to copy it because I want this blog to be a record of what is on my mind - and right now this is it. I am wondering also if this makes anyone else think.
From metacool:
I've been thinking a lot about authenticity lately. It's comes up in just about every conversation I've been in around the subject of designing things to spread, or creating infectious action.
As is the case with quality (the visceral, emotive kind, not the six-sigma variant), I believe authenticity is best understood via immersive experiences. I'm not so interested in articulating what authenticity is or isn't, but I appreciate it as an experience, and I think knowing what that experience feels like is the key creating things that are authentic as well as being authentic in one's own trek across this planet.