“The future is this place at a different time.
Bruce Sterling”
(From The Future (curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist) « Der Feuilletonist.)
Ommwriter from Herraiz Soto on Vimeo.
“A wise man once said ‘We are all at the mercy of our wild monkey minds. Incessantly swinging from branch to branch.’ With multiple windows and applications all vying for our attention, we have sadly adapted our working habits to that of the computer and not the other way around.
Ommwriter is […]
“Grids have been in use long before graphic design became a discipline. During the 13th– and 14th-centuries, scribes used the Villard Diagram to organize their handwritten manuscripts. In the 15th-century, Gutenberg and others divided their pages using the Van de Graaf canon.
The use of a grid is not a trend, it’s a fundamental skill that […]
“MacBook never sounded better.
BassJump makes those great sounding, built-in MacBook speakers sound even better by adding mid- and low-frequencies through one well-designed, travel-sized subwoofer. It’s a smart, simple way to dramatically improve the sound of your MacBook without cluttering up your workspace with a clunky set of replacement speakers and cables. Once the BassJump […]
Long but good:
“I no longer cringe with guilt when I come across a 1000+ word anything that I know I want to read — but which I also know I have no time to read right now. So, I hit a button, and I forget about it. Now — especially combined with Marco and Nostrich’s […]
“‘Less is more.’ – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
‘More is more.’ – David Tudor
‘Less is less.’ – Jason Fried”
(From ❧ The Web Mind of Sebastian Waters - “Less is more.” – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.)
That would be cool (they are actually building a working version, just for jailbroken iPhones, though):
“I’d have loved for this post to be the introduction of our latest iPhone application. An application that introduces a new default optional home screen. A screen that doesn’t require you to scan for red dots with numbers inside of […]
“[…] there ARE other typefaces and one of them is helvetica […]”
(From the ragbag - arial & helvetica
on friday, i hosted a screening….)
“We, the undersigned, wish to declare our support for the direction in which the HTML5 specification is heading. […]
HTML5 is not perfect in our estimation, not that any markup language could be. In particular, we have significant concerns about some aspects of the specification. But we are optimistic that the official channels provided by the […]
Great rules:
Software
Use as little software as possible.
Use software that does one thing well.
Do not use software that does many things poorly.
Do not use software that must sync over the internet to function.
Do not use web applications that should be desktop applications.
Do not use desktop applications that should be web applications.
Do not use software that isn’t made specifically for your operating system. (You’ll […]