12
Jun
Ode to Common Things.
by Pablo Neruda.
I have a crazy,
crazy love of things.
I like pliers, and scissors.
I love cups, rings,
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12
Jun
Designing Delight: The best user experiences are multi-dimensional.
Delight. A dimension of human emotion, equal parts happiness and surprise, it’s a word used a lot in design.
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12
Jun
Massimo on Semantics, Syntactics, Pragmatics.
In his introduction to the Vignelli Canon, esteemed, prolific designer Massimo Vignelli writes, “I thought that it might be useful
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12
Jun
On maps, storytelling, and us.
I love maps, for they are portraits of places. Maps of the Puget Sound, the Chesapeake Bay, the eastern shores
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12
Jun
Friday, Nov 1, 2013. The shoes I wore to meet the architect.
I am on the other side of the table now. I am not the designer, but the designee. The client.
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12
Jun
Friday, October 18th. The shoes I wore to meet the architect.
1 How to draw a line.
Architects use different lines for different purposes, but the line type most specific to
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12
Jun
Friday, October 4th. The shoes I wore to meet the architect....
would have been these boots had I actually met him. I didn’t, though. Mark came by the house last
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12
Jun
Tuesday, September 17th. The shoes I wore to meet the architect....
were white again, but suede this time. With black bows. Purchased at a little boutique in the Hamden neighborhood of
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12
Jun
On what software designers can learn from Japanese knife makers.
From Kinfolk, Volume Eight: The Cutting Edge, by Ethan Kawasaki.
The knife is unequivocally the most important tool in the
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12
Jun
On architecture, skeuomorphism, and "peopled" spaces.
Architect William J. Hirsch Jr, in his book Designing Your Perfect House, expounds on the necessity of the artisanal and
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