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happy 2008
Well, a Happy New Year to you! I'm sitting here looking back on a full year of blog posts (warning, big) trying to make sense of 2007. Here's what I've been up to, in chronological order and...
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This is the post where I say pessimistic things about sustainability and sustainable design, Bruce Mau be damned. Design blogs (incl. Inhabitat, Yanko Design, and Core77, among others) frequently...
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blog all dog-eared pages: the unfolding of language
Guy Deutscher's The Unfolding Of Language was just returned to me after an extended loan, where it was apparently passed on to half a dozen more people or so. Unfolding is a pop-linguistics book that...
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Chris makes some excellent comments on Don Norman's new book, The Design of Future Things. On smugness: I'd posit that these smug systems may have resulted from use cases, and traditional user-centred...
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everyblock launches
Adrian's baby EveryBlocklaunched today, offering locative neighborhood information for San Francisco, Chicago, and New York. They include things like alcohol permits, restaurant inspection reports,...
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An AIGA post from last summer (The Amazing Visual Language of Processing) has got me thinking about the tension in the relationship between design and technology, especially in a firm like Stamen. One...
View Articleimmaculate heart college art department rules
This (by Sister Corita Kent) was worth retyping:Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while.General duties of a student: pull everything out of your teacher, pull everything out of your...
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