February 2010
99 posts
“A little over a year ago, just down the block from us, Solomon Smith Barney...”
– Sam Biederman on representations of office culture in pop culture. Good stuff.
The "i-Pod": it'll never last
Khoi found this fascinating little gem from the depths of the Internet: the Macrumors forum on the day that the iPod was unleashed on the world. What’s interesting is the amount of negative feeling and general disappointment. It seems like a lot of people were holding out for a new Newton, but were incredibly cautious following the failure of the Cube.
And remember this is October 2001, so...
“Having an end makes things better. Movies end. Symphonies have a final note....”
– Frank Chimero on the design rationale behind Thinking for a Living.
“We took our website and turned it sideways. Why? Well, the site is for reading...”
– Well that makes sense. Thinking for a Living: my new favourite website.
“In 1631 Robert Baker, the King’s Printer, produced a Bible with the little word...”
– Type, who host some damn fine-looking typographic walking tours.
Some thoughts on digital publishing
Having just read Adrian Shaughnessy’s Design Week article on electronic publishing (as well as all the other iPad-centric artciles that have been knocking around the last couple of weeks), I’m left with some niggling concerns about where this is all headed, especially as the publishing industry continues to stick to the incredibly flawed and simplistic notion that the iPod/iTunes model will...
My descent into madness
Regarding yesterday’s post about the amazing Pelican Project, it turns out I’m a big fat liar: I don’t have that Palladio book. What I have is a very similar book about architect Inigo Jones, also in the Architect and Society series (which isn’t actually in the Pelican Project’s collection, so I offered to send them a scan. Incidentally, whilst we’re in the brackets, isn’t Inigo a fantastic...
“Creativity usually doesn’t strike in front of the computer. Computers are about...”
– Frank Chimero
