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My problem is with the designers – the ones responsible for the long, crappy history of Flash design. Flash design was by and large unsustainable, and it made the web a more broken and fragmented place. For years, designers felt that Flash freed them from the constraints of the web, and let them be more…
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thisway: FontShop Bit Map (by Stewf)
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The reason we have smartphones, the reason we have television, we’re able to talk on opposite sides of the continent, the reason we have smoke detectors… the reason we have these things is because we understand the reactions – the nuclear reactions – that take place in elements, in protons and neutrons and so on.…
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Bruce Sterling asked me how we could get to the point where design fiction could become a commercial enterprise in its own right. Frankly, I’m not sure it can but it’s a very interesting question. And now that I’ve had some time to think about it, I can imagine design fiction consultancies that help (other)…
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unhistorical: December 1, 1955: Rosa Parks is arrested. Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man and her subsequent arrest marked the beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which eventually led to the federal ruling that declared bus segregation laws unconstitutional. At the time of her arrest Parks had been…
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Old Man Parkour
Old Man Parkour sum1: parkourparenting: I’m old. I’m not saying my age, but it’s damn near 40. I just precision jumped 6 feet from a rail to a post. And I’m bummed out. One’s the loneliest number. All the founders are about my age, but have done this for decades. Everyone at jams…
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carlosesoto: This week I’ve been sharing some work by my form 1 and form 2 students. I work with ethnic minority students in Hong Kong. Here is a presentation two form 2 students did at our morning assembly on the topic of pedagogy. (The edited text from the presentation follows below.) Their presentation is a…
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blakegopnik: Daily Pic: A mortar filled with the Turkish wild cherry seed known as mahlab. (Also known throughout the Balkans and Middle East as mahalab, mahleb, mahaleb, mahlep, mahalep, mahlepi, machlepi or makhlepi, according to the Wikipedia gods. In English, it’s also the Saint Lucy Cherry.) This banal photo stands for aesthetics grasped through other…
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Subcompact Publishing
… Zip drives ate floppies. CDs ate Zips. DVDs ate CDs. SD cards ate film. LCDs ate CRTs. Telephony ate telegraphy. Text messaging ate talking. Tablets are eating our paper … IMAGINE A TABLE: Hundreds of meters long and wooden. Worn and oiled. Old and knotted. Wide enough for a person. Now — open the…
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“About the Word Design” [“Vom Wort Design”]. The Shape of Things: A Philosophy of Design [Vom Stand der Dinge: Eine Kleine Philosophie des Design]. Trans. Anthony Mathews. 1993. London: Reaktion Books, 1999. 17-21. Also translated as “On the Word Design: An Etymological Essay.” Trans. J. Cullars. Design Issues 11.3 (Autumn 1995): 50-53. Also published in…