October 2010
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Yann Tiersen UK Tour 2010 - Leeds
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“You only ever remember the highs & lows in life, never the middle ground. So...”
– Some bloke on the internet.
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“I asked him if he would come up with a few options. And he said, “No. I will...”
– Steve Jobs on working with designer Paul Rand on the NeXT logo
“The structure of form must map to the structure of meaning, and the structure of...”
– http://www.dubberly.com/articles/the-space-of-design.html
September 2010
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August 2010
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July 2010
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Salvador Dalí Museum →
Salvador Dalí now has a new museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. It’s designed by HOK and looks stunning
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Fish in a barrel →
Apple came out with updated Mac Pros and iMacs today. I’m an iMac man myself, so that’s what I checked out. Looks nice! Of course, The League of Internet Commenters is busy finding flaws and comparing it to similar offerings from Apple’s competitors. Hardware isn’t my strong suit, but I know half a thing about website design. So let’s look at the websites for Apple’s primary desktop computer,...
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“Computers should be more like sports cars and kitchen appliances. You...”
– via Fast Company
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WatchInside Facebook - With Facebook hitting 500 Million active members Nightline sit down with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
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“You can try to win a features arms race by offering everything under the sun. Or...”
– Matt on Signal vs Noise (via mnmal)
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“Why do software designers want their work to appear more complex instead of...”
– David Pogue on this article. Read it, it’s very funny. (via mnmal)
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Maeda’s ten laws of simplicity →
Reduce The Simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction
Organize Organization makes a system of many appear fewer
Time Savings in time feel like simplicity
Learn Knowledge makes everything simpler
Differences Simplicity and complexity need each other
Context What lies in the periphery of simplicity is definitely not peripheral
Emotion More emotions are better than...
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“HTML is a language with roots in library science. It doesn’t know or care what...”
– http://www.zeldman.com/
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Erik Spiekermann’s home
Typography guru Erik Spiekermann and his wife, designer Susanna Dulkinys, hate
clutter. That’s why they love the supersleek Berlin domicile they constructed to have
just the right lines—and a host of energy-saving features behind the scenes.
View the article
June 2010
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Core77 speaks with Jonathan Ive on the design of... →
The best design explicitly acknowledges that you cannot disconnect the form from the material – the material informs the form. It is the polar opposite of working virtually in CAD to create an arbitrary form that you then render as a particular material, annotating a part and saying ‘that’s wood’ and so on. Because when an object’s materials, the materials’ processes...
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Jonathan Ive describes the Apple design lab...
“We have assembled a heavenly design team. By keeping the core team small and investing significantly in tools and process we can work with a level of collaboration that seems particularly rare. Our physical environment reflects and enables that collaborative approach. The large open studio and massive sound system support a number of communal design areas. We have little exclusively...
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“Many websites screw up because they haven’t designed with the customer’s...”
– Matt Legend Gemmell
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WatchHow great leaders inspire action; a talk by Simon Sinek.
May 2010
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“Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of...”
– Steve Jobs
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“A good UI should fade away, putting content in the front seat — it should be...”
– usabilitypost.com
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“I often work at home – in a room that like the living room opens up onto the...”
– Dieter Rams
April 2010
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WatchUp There from Mekanism on Vimeo.
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“In many ways, it’s the things that are not there that we are most proud...”
– Jonathan Ive
March 2010
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WatchA beautiful film: Starlings over Aberdeen Harbour by Adam Proctor.
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February 2010
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