If we are going to succeed as teams and as designers, we must learn the art of inspiring trust and cultivating it in our organizations.

Our culture is increasingly defining itself through story: appearance of age, Instagram, weathered surfaces, distressed type, Facebook Timeline, Path, Twitter; the resurgence of tattoos. All of these speak to the histories, hardships and events that shape us. Events in time and place. Sequence.

Surely no business person in his/her right mind would spend their valuable time on a high risk, low return investment? The answer is that the contributors of these graphics are not… “professional designers” in the sense that we would expect.