Design Principles Behind Smalltalk
"Good Design: A system should be built with a minimum set of unchangeable parts; those parts should be as general as possible; and all parts of the system should be held in a uniform framework."
Great read.
I'm Comic Sans, Asshole.
"Sorry the entire world can't all be done in stark Eurotrash Swiss type. Sorry some people like to have fun. Sorry I'm standing in the way of your minimalist Bauhaus-esque fascist snoozefest. Maybe sometime you should take off your black turtleneck, stop compulsively adjusting your Tumblr theme, and lighten the fuck up for once."
Poetry.
How to Run a Meeting
"I bag on meetings because like any nerd I expect the universe to be efficient and orderly and there is no more vile a violation of this sense of orderliness than a room full of people randomly bumping into shit and calling it a meeting."
Tristan Perich: 1-Bit Symphony
1-Bit Symphony is not a recording in the traditional sense; it literally "performs" its music live when turned on. A complete electronic circuit—programmed by the artist and assembled by hand—plays the music through a headphone jack mounted into the case itself.
Fantastic, more please!
The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet
You wake up and check your email on your bedside iPad — that’s one app. During breakfast you browse Facebook, Twitter, and The New York Times — three more apps. On the way to the office, you listen to a podcast on your smartphone. Another app. At work, you scroll through RSS feeds in a reader and have Skype and IM conversations. More apps. At the end of the day, you come home, make dinner while listening to Pandora, play some games on Xbox Live, and watch a movie on Netflix’s streaming service.
You’ve spent the day on the Internet — but not on the Web. And you are not alone.
Change is good.
141 Eyewear / You buy, we give.
Some great designs and a great cause. Wish I could buy a pair online.
Noma Bar Interview
Beautiful illustrations here. Very reminiscent of Lex Drewinski, one of my favorite poster designers.
Reality Sandwiches
Didn't realize I owned this. Can't wait to visit City Lights in a week.
The Top Idea in Your Mind
The second half, around the Newton example, is something I've wanted to articulate for a long time.
Analogue Inception
Jeremy makes some great observations:
"Christopher Nolan goes further and avoids the use of digital input and output devices: the mouse, the keyboard, the screen (either LCD or cathode ray) …all of these things anchor a narrative to a specific period. Instead, there is almost a fetishisation of the analogue. When we see people planning and prototyping in Inception, it is with paper and cardboard rather than any computer-aided design tools."