January 2012
10 posts
“I feel like there’s a red pill and a blue pill, and you can take the blue pill...”
– Tenured Professor Departs Stanford, Hoping to Teach 500,000 Students at Online Start-Up - The Chronicle of Higher Education (via davemorin)
Jan 24th
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WatchWatch
The Bubble Computer
Jan 13th
Jan 11th
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“Seventy-two is a magic number in printing and typography. In 1737 Pierre...”
– The Myth of DPI
Jan 10th
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“The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living. The assumption...”
– Harry Bertoia
Jan 5th
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Jan 4th
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Jan 4th
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“Software options proliferate extremely easily, too easily in fact, because too...”
– Wired 7.01: The Revenge of the Intuitive  (via davidhoffman)
Jan 4th
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Frontiers through the Ages
dbreunig: Water, 1400 Land, 1840 Gold, 1850 Wire, 1880 Air, 1900 Celluloid, 1920 Plastic, 1950 Space, 1960 Silicon, 1980 Networks, 1990 Data, 2000
Jan 4th
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10 New Years Resolutions for Designers →
You are not Jesus and comps aren’t for saving. If something isn’t working, start over. Otherwise the goal you’re working towards is saving your work, not solving the problem. Also, comps do not have feelings. You are not abandoning them. (You have no idea how much therapy that sentence took. Seriously.) This urge comes from not wanting to feel like the time they’ve spent on that comp is...
Jan 3rd
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