First, she brought in an artist friend to help her design the mats.

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Mr Pim was helped with the design by a friend who is an organ builder.

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The cover art was a freebie from a graphic designer Katsiris met through a friend, as was the design of premiercrumusic.com.

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When Shepard Fairey was a student at the Rhode Island School of Design in the late 1980s, a friend asked him how to make a stencil.

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He would will his best friend, Steve Wozniak, to complete a circuit board design for Atari in days, instead of weeks.

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As organizations shift from neatly ordered hierarchies to chaotic, flattened "heterarchies, " where anyone can "friend the CEO, " a new generation of tools will be invented that will allow design and technology to enable leaders to make true connections among people and inspire change.

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That is certainly the case in the design of the centre created by Daniel Libeskind, a world leader in architecture and a friend of Northern Ireland.

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