January 2012
14 posts
“I think that part of my experience of growing up in the American South in the...”
– An interview with William Gibson | The Verge
Sounds very similar to how i feel sometimes, torn between the work/life culture of India and the US.
“What can be explained is not poetry.”
– W.B. Yeats (via bodasdesangre)
“American design is consumer driven. What Americans want, they get....”
– Thomas Lockwood, Designmanagement Institute (via justinlowery)
“People turn to software to learn the meaning of words, learn which countries...”
– Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface
“Since we iterate every day and never have dumb-ass presentations, we don’t run...”
– Jonathan Ive on working with Steve Jobs (From Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson)
December 2011
6 posts
“A twentieth century problem is that technology has become too...”
– Alan Kay
Russell Davies on Little Printer (not really about... →
“This is masterful in so many ways. But one point I wanted to make, to all those agencies that have decided that making products is the future. That’s a laudable and intelligent aim, but it took five years for BERG to go from here to here. And they’re really good. They had to be focused…
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November 2011
10 posts
“Lovelock would say that Earth is an organism. I disagree with this phraseology....”
– With endless respect to Lynn Margulis what she was articulating is the problem with science as it has been understood culturally for way too long. It’s been the opposite of religion. If scientists are going to transmit information — and that’s what they should be trying to do — then they should...
“We try and illustrate a “universe-next-door” where the new product is the only...”
– Great analysis of this concept video “genre” from the folks at BERG (via future-drama)
“Graphic designers are educated at art schools where self-expression is highly...”
– Nick Bell via Eye Magazine
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October 2011
11 posts
“..the battle for me is not within a Design arena, I think the real competition...”
– Jasper Morrison :: Looking for Atmosphere
Let’s first of all consider Industry working without design, what would the result be. Would we have objects which functioned very well? Probably. We’d have efficient objects, we’d have objects which fitted the right price and we’d probably have quite a confusion … For the customers it would become quite … arbitrary which product they took. And the problem with...
Watchchriswoebken:
Pixel Factory [Prototype] (by Kenichi Okada)
“I think one of the things we are good at as a team is gently moving these...”
– Lessons On Designing Innovation
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September 2011
19 posts
“What we see of the real world is not the unvarnished world but a model of the...”
– Richard Dawkins
“Products are nodes in the flow of content, that we are experiencing.”
Matt Jones of BERG on internet-ish products Vs...
WARNING: this is a bit of ramble, and I realise this is not really about brands, but…
Modern industrial design has always been about maximum idea, minimum stuff - more maximum benefit, minimum stuff. Inject the quicksilver of software into the stuff, and hopefully it ratchets that up further. Unfortunately, over the last 20 years, software has become big and crufty too, but a lot of the...
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“If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. This could...”
– Henry Chinaski, Factotum (via fairtradegothic)
“You can build mass-market products …. only if you embrace the fantasy and...”
– Message and Muscle: An Interview with Swatch Titan Nicolas Hayek - Harvard Business Review
“We must build where we live. When a country loses the know-how and expertise to...”
– Message and Muscle: An Interview with Swatch Titan Nicolas Hayek - Harvard Business Review
ifttt blog: ifttt the beginning... →
ifttt:
I’d like to humbly announce that the first beta invites for a project I’m incredibly excited about are out the door. The project is called ifttt, shorthand for “if this then that”. With this blog I hope to begin fleshing out some of the initial inspirations that led to the inception of ifttt…