The Job
Via: Stratechery“Part of the job of a designer is to try to understand what happens between physically seeing something and interpreting it.”
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A Scanner Darkly | A Designer’s Life
DESIGN IS A PREREQUISITE
“"I refute that design is important. Design is a prerequisite. Good design -- innovation -- is really hard."
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ANIMATED HISTORY OF THE iPHONE
A CNet UK tribute to the memory of Steve Jobs.
Via: Cool Infographics
Labels: Apple, Design, Infographics
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THE FUNDAMENTAL SOUL
«In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior decorating. It’s the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. »
Via: Magnificent Ruin
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THAT DAY HAS COME
«Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward.
And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.»
Labels: Apple
posted by Guille @ 4:20 PM
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LIFE/CAREER
«I don’t think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That’s not a career – it’s a life!»
Via: SwissMiss
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MA (間)
“Jobs's immersion in Zen and passion for design almost certainly exposed him to the concept of ma, a central pillar of traditional Japanese aesthetics. Like many idioms relating to the intimate aspects of how a culture sees the world, it's nearly impossible to accurately explain -- it's variously translated as "void," "space" or "interval" -- but it essentially describes how emptiness interacts with form, and how absence shapes substance. If someone were to ask you what makes a ring a meaningful object -- the circle of metal it consists of, or the emptiness that that metal encompasses? -- and you were to respond "both," you've gotten as close to ma as the clumsy instrument of English allows.
While Jobs has never invoked the term in public -- one of the aspects of his genius is the ability to keep even his most esoteric assertions in the realm of the instantly accessible -- ma is at the core of the Jobsian way. And Jobs' single-minded adherence to this idiosyncratically Japanese principle is, ironically, what has allowed Apple to compete with and beat Japan's technology titans -- most notably the company that for the past four decades dominated the world of consumer electronics: Sony.”
posted by Guille @ 11:20 PM
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DESIGNED BY APPLE IN CALIFORNIA
«Also, it wasn’t “Made by Apple in California,” it was Designed. I can’t think of another company that holds design in higher esteem or even one that touts every product as designed, not made. This might be the best expression of the company’s mission available.»
Via: 37 Signals
posted by Guille @ 12:35 PM
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BROADER UNDERSTANDING
«The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.»
Via: Creativebits
posted by Guille @ 9:00 PM
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APPLE RESPONDS TO ADOBE'S AD
I need this on a t-shirt, that's all. Oh, and in case it's not clear, the future is Flashless.
Via: DaringFireball
Link: Zeldman
posted by Guille @ 5:00 PM
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THE FUNNY FIELD GUIDE
«In a future full of iPads, iPhone OS 4, next-gen iPhones, and iPod Touches with cameras (plus whatever Gray Powell leaves at a German beer joint next week), a significant portion of your tech life will likely bear an Apple logo--and keep Steve Jobs in the finest stonewashed jeans regionally available. The question isn't, "Do you use Apple devices," but "Which one?" And "Where?" Here's a cut-out-and-keep cheat sheet.»
Via: This isn't happiness
Link My Modern Metropolis
Labels: Apple
posted by Guille @ 1:50 PM
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AT THE INTERSECTION OF TECHNOLOGY AND LIBERAL ARTS
«The reason we’ve been able to create products like this is because we’ve tried to be at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. We make things that are easy to use, fun to use — they really fit the users.»
Labels: Apple
posted by Guille @ 5:07 PM
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I COMMAND YOU TO...
«⌘+Z and Carry On.»
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ASTEROID FIELDS FOREVER
«Sometimes you have a-holes pestering you, and you're taking all kinds of crap, and the only way to get through it is to fly through a friggin' asteroid field and get bruised up a bit, but trust that it will hurt them more than it hurts you.»
- Now, where did I put the keys of my Millennium Falcon?
Via: The Secret diary of Steve Jobs (aka FakeSJ)
posted by Guille @ 1:40 PM
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iPANTONE?
Gotta love all those crazy rumors pre-WWDC hysteria.
Via: MAKE IT REAL 2.0 真
Labels: Apple
posted by Guille @ 1:05 AM
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⌘O - SEALING WAX
This pic made me remember the seal that my grandfather gave me as a present when I was a kid. He even took it to a jeweler to transform his initials into mines. I spent countless hours playing (and getting burned occasionally) with the seal and the sealing wax, one day I'll post the pictures.
Via: Matt.cc
Link: Jules Tardy
More info: Sigillography (Wikipedia)
Via: Matt.cc
Link: Jules Tardy
More info: Sigillography (Wikipedia)
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APPLE + COLDPLAY
The übercool new spot of Apple's iTunes Store directed by Mark Romanek featuring Coldplay and their new single Viva la vida.
Via: Fubiz
Via: Fubiz
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SANTA GET A MAC
* Apple's Christmas Card/Ad directed and animated by Drew Lightfoot, with character design by Shane Prigmore, at LAIKA/house. Featuring the voices of Justin Long (mac) and John Hodgman (pc).
* Tarjeta navideña de Apple dirigida y animada por Drew Lightfoot y diseño de personajes por Shane Prigmore, de LAIKA/house. Presentando las voces de Justin Long (mac) y John Hodgman (pc).
Via: Cartoon Brew
* Tarjeta navideña de Apple dirigida y animada por Drew Lightfoot y diseño de personajes por Shane Prigmore, de LAIKA/house. Presentando las voces de Justin Long (mac) y John Hodgman (pc).
Via: Cartoon Brew
posted by Guille @ 12:05 AM
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"A CONSCIOUS N*GGA WITH MAC LIKE STEVE JOBS"
Southside: lyrics by Common feat. Kanye West
For the non-lingo speakers the explanation of the title comes from the similarity between the words "mac" and "mack" (urban dictionary link).
Via: Tumbl.us and Mattmc's twitter
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