February 2012
“Books are not product. Books are creative endeavors as individual and singular...”
– The Web Is a Customer Service Medium (Ftrain.com)
“a writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other...”
– The American Scholar: Solitude and Leadership - William Deresiewicz
“Thinking means concentrating on one thing long enough to develop an idea about...”
– The American Scholar: Solitude and Leadership - William Deresiewicz
“Social media is to the Read/Write Web what sprawl is to the metropolis of...”
– Arcades, Mall Rats, and Tumblr Thugs – The New Inquiry
“What you get is indifference as a way of managing difference.”
– Richard Sennett: ‘Big society? It’s to keep the bankers happy … ’ | From the Observer | The Observer
“An authentic performance of old music is possible, an authentic experience of it...”
– The 1910 time traveller « thenextwave
January 2012
“Whether it is ‘art’ or not is not really part of the conversation,” he says....”
– Jeremy Deller: ‘I’m more interested in ideas than money’ | Art and design | The Guardian
“Euphemisms may be a species of lie, but some of them are white.”
– Phoney politeness and muddled messages — www.economist.com — Readability
“E. B. White was amused to learn from a farmer friend that many electrified...”
– A List Apart: Articles: An Important Time for Design
“The products that take design seriously and incorporate it from the start are...”
– A List Apart: Articles: An Important Time for Design
“The kinds of stuff we do in ‘making’ are paths to the future, not paths to...”
– Pentagon taps students to build robots, drones | California Watch
“My drawings have been described as pre-intentionalist, meaning that they were...”
– James Thurber
“So I often tell people that the mid-century will be about “old people
in...”
– The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2012
“A small, beautiful, modest, handcrafted society, living in harmony with its...”
– Bruce Sterling, Shaping Things
“I wonder what’s down there, I’ll go and have a smell.”
– Smell-designing Sheffield
“Every meeting must have one clear decision maker. If there’s no decision...”
– How Larry Page Changed Meetings At Google After Taking Over Last Spring
“Which of them would risk the chamber pot of failed hopes being emptied over...”
– m.guardian.co.uk
“The everyday object is the monarch of all objects.”
– The Viridian Design Movement
“It’s not bad to own fine things that you like. What you need are things that you...”
– The Viridian Design Movement
“I live on the Earth. The Earth is a planet. This fact is okay. I am living in...”
– The Viridian Design Movement
The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks. (Doren/Adler)
“4) Some people (they are wrong) say design is about solving problems. Obviously...”
– Kicker Studio: Six Questions from Kicker: Jack Schulze
“No one cares about what you think, unless you do what you think. No one cares...”
– Kicker Studio: Six Questions from Kicker: Jack Schulze
“We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for...”
– Borges
And my year end notes, lessons learnt etc http://t.co/h1GGajzw
December 2011
Robert Frost: the writer without a desk
i’m looking for a sound designer for a 30 min film
“Now we drive out the pope
from Christ’s church and God’s house.
Therein he has...”
– Social media in the 16th Century: How Luther went viral | The Economist
i’m going to Stratford City, so there
“I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory;...”
– Brian Eno: from the Velvet Underground to Burial | Music | The Guardian
Noel Gallagher: if the master tape of your latest album was floating in a vat of hummus (sic) I would push it under
Yup, total tosh http://t.co/m7zyFNsL via @ilovetypography
Can you hear me screaming in Brooklyn? http://t.co/jODlB9rY
Tonight at LDNIA we might just have reached peak unbloggable
I had to rearrange their faces. And give them all another name.
“I wish life liked nature more” Nathan (aged 7)
RT @I_like The @NothingToSeeHere book is now for sale from Pocket Mountains. Use code ‘NTSH’ to get 20% off http://t.co/yjc72UrF
An edge over which it is impossible to look →
Nothing is ever cut and dry. Mr @markboulton on the money http://t.co/JUpA8KvT
“Work in public. Reveal nothing.”
– The art of working in public « Snarkmarket
“The writers give you a glimpse into their thought processes — “they both conjure...”
– collision detection: The art of public thinking
Trust increases when we get the details... →
“Nascent James Dysons aren’t going to suddenly appear from their garages,...”
– potlatch: Thatcherism as tragedy then farce
The internets is bipolar
As you’d expect, opinion was polarised. Andy Budd perhaps encapsulated how I feel:
If you compromise on nothing, you’re a dictator. A lack of compromise weakens the chance of discovering that you could actually be wrong.
And Oliver Reichenstein today:
Web design is engineering. Engineering is all about making the right compromises. Case closed.
RT @london_ia: Still a few LDNIA Late Bird tickets available for next Wednesday http://t.co/XQhby2Br
When digital software meshes with the minimalist aesthetic you get what Ingram calls “audio trickle” http://t.co/Sqh5EgYv
one cloud to rule them all (and in the darkness bind them) http://t.co/kMqwIWLn
nice hat “@VettedShop: Here’s a sneak peak of our first original product: a wool 5-panel cap. Available very soon. http://t.co/Ug4KsigG”
Nice shadow (hands) http://t.co/SPBdJFcV