February 2012
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… most magazines are simply aggregators of novelty … - William...
– http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/01/15/william-gibson-on-his-ipad-time-machines-and-traveling-on-someone-elses-dime/
January 2012
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What distinguished programmers at the top-performing companies wasn’t greater...
– http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/opinion/sunday/the-rise-of-the-new-groupthink.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
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For otaku, it doesn’t matter what you love as long as you love it wholeheartedly...
– http://www.torontostandard.com/foreign-desk/manga-showdown-in-akiba-2/
October 2011
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In industrial capitalism’s past, the working class could fight against a target...
– Franco “Bifo” Berardi - “After the Future” (via effusionofbiopower)
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The jobs just aren’t coming back.
They left on what was supposed to be a...
– Tara Gentile
September 2011
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G is for Graphic Designer →
youmightfindyourself:
“The vast majority of designers make ugly things for incompetent people.”
Thanks to Mad Men and the countless ads on TV for schools that “allow you to express your creativity to its fullest potential,” the thought is that every design job is a sexy glamorous job. Once you’re through with school, you’ll land a job at Leo Burnett, BBDO, Nike, Apple, or another company...
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Dieter Rams’ ten principles to “good design”
Good design is innovative
Good...
– Yatzer
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August 2011
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There’s a moment in middle childhood when the difference between what you...
– “Because at some point you have children and you can’t tweet your way through that sh*t.”
From Why There Are No Girls In San Francisco, via youmightfindyourself
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If our ideas seem smaller nowadays, it’s not because we are dumber than our...
– From The Elusive Big Idea, NY Times (via YMFY)
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July 2011
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Ultimately, moving numbers around can do only so much. Over the long haul,...
– Bob Lutz arguing that we need to “fire the M.B.A.s and let the Engineers run the show,” in Time Magazine
June 2011
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Our incompetence masks our ability to recognize... →
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Jante Law (Scandinavian) negative portrayal and... →
May 2011
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free...
– Brave New World Revisited, Aldous Huxley as quoted in the 5.23.11 Daily Heller
April 2011
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The adult public’s taste is not necessarily ready to accept the logical...
– Raymond Loewy’s MAYA design principle, “Most Advanced Yet Acceptable”, helps to explain the Ducati 999’s market failure.
Read about Pierre Terblanche’s successor to the 916 in Tim Poupore’s “What killed the 999?” from the May 2011 issue of Cycle...
March 2011
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Jaakko Mattila - Works on Paper →
Jaakko Mattila - Works on Paper. Found on Kitsune Noir.
February 2011
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Every time I see a photo from Laurent Nivalle's... →
Photos from Laurent Nivalle’s 2010 “Le Mans Classic” collection.
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Well curated, comfortable home; lovely bathroom. →
from Design Sponge
Peter Crawley, stitched illustrations →
January 2011
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December 2010
5 posts
it’s not healthy to have what you’re doing for months at a time...
– http://shar.es/XiEic
November 2010
8 posts
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