Last night we were in attendance for Yeh IDeology's 5-Year Celebration and Panel Discussion hosted at the Knoll Showroom in New York City. Besides the tasty birthday cake and networking games, Angela Yeh moderated a panel featuring some great friends on The State of Design in the New Economy. To sum up:

+ Joe Moya, Minds In Sync: Specialization within the industry is becoming more and more valuable + Brad Lacey, Converse: A healthy dose of paranoia is good...it pushes you to do better, faster! + Cliff Kuang, CODesign: Now is the time to dust off that thing you thought could never be created with new platforms like Kickstarter transforming the game! + Yasemin Bernadette, Springs Global: Remember, simple ideas are often the best. + Angela Yeh, Yeh IDeology: Now is the time! Failing is learning!

Congrats to Angela and the whole Yeh IDeology team! Here's to another year of learning and sharing.