RafaelFajardo

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  • Fountain: Esquire profiles Jason Rohrer, the video game designer behind Passage,…

    Fountain: Esquire profiles Jason Rohrer, the video game designer behind Passage,… Esquire profiles Jason Rohrer, the video game designer behind Passage, an elegant little game that will take you exactly 5 minutes to finish: Passage was sad, it was sincere, it was personal, it was mysterious, it was existential, and for all these reasons, it…

  • stephysocks: This is my bit for the it gets better project www.itgetsbetterproject.com poster + background photo © Steph McElroy

  • Bill Moggridge: Observer Media: Design Observer

    Bill Moggridge: Observer Media: Design Observer Link to audio interview with Bill Moggridge, co-founder of IDEO, executive director of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.

  • Microsoft hires some of the smartest people in the world…It’s not an issue of people being smart and talented. It’s that design at Apple is at the highest level of the organization, led by Steve personally. Design at other companies is not there. It is buried down in the bureaucracy somewhere… In bureaucracies many people…

  • Cover page from incredible graphic novel serialization of the life of Machiavelli by: Don MacDonald – Machiavelli

  • ‘Tabs’ Icon Set

    ‘Tabs’ Icon Set scroll to the bottom to find the free download. I haven’t tried out the icons, but I find it interesting that the landing page is organized like a store that places the loss-leader in the back corner. You have to walk past all of the enticing full-priced merchandise to get to the…

  • Having an idea is challenging, describing how to have one more so. Frank Chimero – How to Have an Idea via: SwissMiss

  • New MacBook Air doesn’t ship with Flash

    New MacBook Air doesn’t ship with Flash infinite-style: You have to admire their conviction, the new MacBook Air doesn’t ship with Adobe Flash pre-installed. For those that don’t know Adobe Flash has come pre-installed with OS-X for as long as I can remember. You can of course still install it yourself.  I wonder if this…

  • Incognito

    Incognito Incognito is a Safari extension that prevents Google and Facebook from following you on the web.

  • Gates, Jobs, & the Zen aesthetic

    Gates, Jobs, & the Zen aesthetic A key tenet of the Zen aesthetic is kanso or simplicity. In the kanso concept beauty, grace, and visual elegance are achieved by elimination and omission. Says artist, designer and architect, Dr. Koichi Kawana, “Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means.” When you examine your visuals,…