June 2010
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Core 77 Interviews Jonathan Ive →
Core77 is granted a rare interview with the industrial designer behind Apple’s product line:
The best design explicitly acknowledges that you cannot disconnect the form from the material—the material informs the form,” says Ive. “It is the polar opposite of working virtually in CAD to create an arbitrary form that you then render as a particular material, annotating a part...
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‘The man who has never been miserable has nothing...
“It’s the best thing in the world for you, Van Gogh. It will make you suffer.”
“Why are you so interested in seeing me suffer?”
Weissenbruch sat on the lone stool, crossed his legs, and pointed a ret-tipped brush at Vincent’s jaw.
“Because it will make a real artist out of you. The more you suffer, the more grateful you ought to be. That’s the...
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Gruber on iPhone 4 →
John Gruber has posted his complete and comprehensive review of iPhone 4. For those of you who wonder why he writes me favorite blog, just read the section in this review noting Apple’s switch from Helvetica to Helvetica Neue as the primary system font on the iPhone. It’s the details like that that no one else writes about that make Daring Fireball the best Apple blog out there.
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Designer’s Favorite Meals →
Print Magazine has a great feature on designer’s favorite dishes to prepare. There are a lot of interesting and thoughtful responses and even though the dishes all look delicious, I was especially interested in reading their thoughts on the connection between design and food.
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Steve Carell Confirms he’s leaving The Office →
Michael Scott’s time in The Office are clearly coming to an end:
“I just think it’s time,” Steve told our Kristina Guerrero. “I want to fulfill my contract. When I first signed on I had a contract for seven seasons, and this coming year is my seventh. I just thought it was time for my character to go.”
In my opinion, the show peaked during season four and...
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The Final Hours →
it turns out, dad just wanted some peace and quiet. he didn’t want fanfare or a big to-do. he didn’t want a group of people around his bed with hands joined reciting the “our father.” he didn’t need someone holding his hand every moment of the day. he simply wanted his last father’s day to be with his girls and only his girls.
so with an hour left of father’s day, june 20, dad was gone.
Geez....
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Up and Then Down →
Nick Paumgarten’s recent piece for The New Yorker on elevators was surprisingly fascinating from the engineering of building an elevator to elevator accidents. I found this part about elevator “etiquette” interesting:
Passengers seem to know instinctively how to arrange themselves in an elevator. Two strangers will gravitate to the back corners, a third will stand by the door, at an isosceles...
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WatchWhat started out as just a little video about making t-shirts surprisingly turned into an interesting look at how companies can ignite change in the future. I enjoyed this short video on Howies Printshop so much, I ended up watching it multiple times. I just can’t get over the company’s motto, “Let’s use this company of ours to make people think.” Brilliant.
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“Inspiration is accumulative. Everything can be inspiring. It is how you look at...”
– Karim Rashid is an interesting designer and reading this interview with him on “infosthetics,” the future of design/art/technology/science and individualism is a great display of that. He has some interesting thoughts on how we will interact, both with other people and technology, in the future. The...
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“I feel like being wrong is really important to doing decent work. To do any kind...”
– I love you Ira Glass.
I enjoyed reading every bit of this fantastic interview with Ira Glass, a personal hero and host of The American Life talking all about The Wrong Stuff. So many great quotes and there are multiple times I found myself laughing out loud. The man is brilliant.
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This Changes Everything: A Break-Up Story
It’s hard to look her in the eyes knowing what I have to say.
I remember that mid-Summer morning we met. It was hot out and I was a bit tired from the crazy night before. But she still managed to catch my eye immediately. She was thin with those oh-so-subtle-curves. She was smart and confident. She sparkled. She was mine. I shook as I cradled her in my arms.
We’d been together for two years....
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FaceTime and the iPod Touch →
Insightful analysis from John Gruber on iPhone 4’s FaceTime currently being wi-fi only:
[C]onsider the implications of the fact that you don’t need to start with a voice call. That means you don’t, in theory, need to start with a phone. A hypothetical camera-equipped iPod Touch could make FaceTime calls. So could a hypothetical camera-equipped iPad. Or even an Apple TV. This notion occurred...
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“Sometimes your uneasiness is just the bud before the blossom.”
– Holy wow! This quote from Shane Hipps is completely slaying me right now. How many times do we pull out the buds of what we think are weeds before waiting to see if they blossom into a beautiful flower? How many opportunities are lost? How many products not shipped? How many relationships never...
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Charting Walmart’s Growth →
This is an incredible animated infographic that tracks the growth of Walmart’s stores since opening it’s first in 1962. It’s interesting to see how it started out slow for the first few decades and then takes off in the late eighties early nineties. I have a vague memory of when the Walmart in my town opened when I was growing up and it’s funny to think that at one time, it...
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Happy Friday! I’ve been just turned on to...
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“I live on a boat in Marina del Rey. When I wake up on the boat, it’s very...”
– —Blake Mycoskie, founder of Toms Shoes discusses the way he works in Inc. Magazine.
I love this. I’ve often found that writing is a way to clear my mind, put things in perspective, and organize my thoughts. I’ve been trying to get back to writing everyday; sometimes personal, sometimes...
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“Simplicity isn’t a goal or an end result. Simplicity is a means to an end, with...”
– Practicing Simple Living
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Apple’s Lost Founder: Jobs, Woz, and Wayne →
We are all familiar with the story of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak teaming up to create the first personal computer but did you know there was one other person involved in the creation of Apple Computer, Inc back in 1976? I’ve never heard the story of Ron Wayne, the third co-founder who left the company twelve days after founding it:
Twelve days after Wayne wrote the document that formally...
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“I don’t think we need to shoot up another leaky rocketship. But, where do we go...”
– From a beautiful little essay from Frank Chimero called Frontiers.
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WatchIf you have a free hour and half, I highly recommend watching the full interview with Steve Jobs from the recent All Things D D8 conference. Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher ask a wide range of questions including Apple’s straining relationship with Google, Flash, FoxConn, and how Apple’s organization works.
It’s no secret that Mr. Jobs is one of my biggest heroes and I’m...
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DumbDumb →
I’m not really even sure what to say about this:
DumbDumb is a comedy enterprise led by Will Arnett and Jason Bateman. The twosome will create commercials along with short and long form programming for distribution across all platforms. For the new endeavor, DumbDumb will utilize web production, development, and marketing expertise from CollegeHumor.com, whose original content creations have...
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Resistance, Failure, and The Life of an Artist
[I wrote this piece almost a year ago over on my old blog. I reread it the other day and realized how applicable it still is to my life and work. So I’m republishing it here, in a slightly edited and updated version]
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of the hugely popular memoir Eat, Pray, Love, has said that after the success of her book, her life changed. “Everywhere I go people treat me like...
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“We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So...”
– —Andy Goldsworthy
I watched a documentary on Andy Goldsworthy a few years ago and it completely blew me away. His approach and thought is quite enlightening. If you are not familiar with his work, you really should familiarize yourself.
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“A life spent curled in a ball, hiding in the corner might seem less risky, but...”
– Seth Godin’s post this morning really hit hard. It’s exactly what I needed
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about fear, the lizard brain, pursuing your creative work, life as a working designer, surrounding oneself with people you love who can encourage and inspire you and growing...
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