Design-related Parries
April 2012
From Nokia N95 to iPhone 4S
Annoyances and upsets with the iPhone 4S have been more than offset by its screen, the silkiness of its surfaces, the camera, and the third-party market for both software and hardware.
October 2011
The Mouse and the Cantilever
Steve Jobs we lost at the age of 56; when Frank Lloyd Wright reached that age it was still only 1923, the time of merely his second comeback with Tokyo’s Imperial Hotel.
January 2009
Panning for MacBook Pro
Even if it did nothing, was just a prop in a futuristic movie, the MacBook Pro would be impressive. It’s like a sculpture of my previous computer, the MacBook, except it’s actually an improved computer! So even though I’m looking at it now and touching it to write these words, I’m going to stop now just to look at it and touch it.
February 2007
Almost Extreme Elements
I just finished the Extreme Elements website. I’m worried about its reception, as I always am with a big new site, but it does benefit from designs I did in the past for two high-profile sites that never got used.
Moody Cog
“The primary navigation interface had to be a sentence. And so it is,” writes Jeffrey Zeldman, lead at the web shop with the greatest cred in the business, Happy Cog, on their redesign today. But it’s not a very good sentence.
Design-related Photos
Furry Balcony
Friday, January 8th, 2010; Helsinki, Finland
Furry Balcony
Friday, January 8th, 2010; Helsinki, Finland
Good for the People
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009; Brighton, East Sussex, England
Who Do You Think You are Kidding, Mr Finjan?
Sunday, May 24th, 2009; Brighton, East Sussex, England
Brighton Life
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009; Brighton, East Sussex, England
Glib Glug
Saturday, February 21st, 2009; Brighton, East Sussex, England
Signs of the Old Times
Monday, December 8th, 2008
A Favorite Spot of Mine, Too
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Gay Day at the Park
Thursday, June 12th, 2008
Hot Piping
Sunday, May 18th, 2008
Indiana Jones and the Krispies of Coco
Sunday, May 11th, 2008
Sanctuary’s Path
Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Sweetlife
Saturday, April 26th, 2008
Tel Aviv New View
Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Tabletop Aroma
Friday, April 11th, 2008
Elegant Mosaics in the Subway for Goodness’ Sake
Sunday, October 7th, 2007; Africa
Talk to Us
Monday, September 24th, 2007
Ministreets #1
Saturday, April 14th, 2007
No Latmag on Design
And on the Trail
Wed 9 May ’12
“Nation on the Move” is the magnificent second episode of the America Revealed PBS series. Interestingly, the show is British-made.
Sat 5 May ’12
Photos by Paul Ringstrom of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Muirhead Farmhouse which I had not heard of until this moment. I just love it. Beautiful brickwork that seems to be just the same as unbeautiful brickwork. Perfect shapes. The slightly outcropping wooden ziggurat on top. Oooh. Also the Sims House.
Fri 16 Mar ’12
Sun 4 Mar ’12
Taking his time, Morozov asks the right questions about Steve Jobs, comparing him first to the Bauhaus movement, then to Henry Ford. Many quotable quotes, and good comments, especially the long one from JakeH at 02/27/2012 – 7:46pm EDT.
Sun 19 Feb ’12
The new $100,000 Fisker Karma, The World’s Most Interesting Car, reviewed in The Wall Street Journal. James May in Top Gear Loves it too. Interior has been described as mid-century modern. Oh yes and made in Flinland.
Thu 9 Feb ’12
Ohio-based identity designer Adam Ladd asked his 5-year-old daughter her impressions on some popular logos.
Sat 4 Feb ’12
Toca Boca: ingenious iOS games for kids and not such.
Wed 4 Jan ’12
John Malkovich on Charlie Rose.
John Malkovich: The world is in fact, well, if you’re anywhere near as lucky as I have been, but even if you’re just moderately lucky, the world is in fact an exquisitely beautiful, endlessly fascinating place filled often with spectacular people.
Charlie Rose: That’s exactly the way I feel.
JM: You know…
CR: Exactly!
Mon 12 Dec ’11
Irit and I were discussing this regarding ET, which still feels contemporary: in arts, entertainment and style, it’s been Groundhog Day for 20 years. “Now that we have instant universal access to every old image and recorded sound, the future has arrived and it’s all about dreaming of the past.”
Sat 22 Oct ’11
We need to go back to nature in order to move forward. Amazing futuristic ways to be smart about energy in your own house by Philips at Dutch Design Week.
Fri 14 Oct ’11
Designs to replace Britain’s electricity pylons.
Thu 13 Oct ’11
The inevitable and welcomed iPhone 4S teardown by the ifixit guys.
Wed 12 Oct ’11
Arstechnica, the iOS 5 review. Featuring game-changers Siri and the iCloud.
Sun 9 Oct ’11
Best of the Steve Jobs eulogies: John Siracusa, David Pogue. And one about his house. A favorable comparison with Thomas Edison.
Sat 17 Sep ’11
My favorite FLLW site is Peter Beers’ Frank Lloyd Wright Road Trip. He’s stayed at the houses wherever you can, and done some benign architectural stalking where the residence remains private.
Fri 26 Aug ’11
Krauthammer visits the new King memorial in Washington.
Sun 24 Jul ’11
Mon 9 May ’11
Bless the internets. Great explanatory essay on dishwashers on epinions.
Sun 8 May ’11
Ashton Kutcher’s exceedingly nice house is for sale. Lots of wood.
Thu 21 Apr ’11
Sun 27 Mar ’11
Festo’s SmartBird: a robotic flying seagull.
Fri 11 Feb ’11
Cool, Tel Aviv.
Fri 15 Oct ’10
Scully on Jobs.
Sun 3 Oct ’10
Animals on the London Underground — awesome!
Tue 20 Jul ’10
Both the BBC and Fox news web sites have recently been redesigned, with the BBC losing its looks and Fox getting neat and serious.
Tue 13 Apr ’10
Andy Rutledge on Lies, Deception, and Subcontracting.
Tue 26 Jan ’10
This video of a tablet mockup makes me horny at last for a tablet computer. I’m excited for tomorrow’s Apple announcement. Guess I’ll be standing in line to buy one as well.
Sun 24 Jan ’10
Hypercritical by John Siracusa, or, The Tao of Editing.
Thu 21 Jan ’10
The Mini Countryman.
Thu 7 Jan ’10
Three cheers for the Vintage Ad Browser.
Tue 5 Jan ’10
leogeo.com, a veritable museum of Flash loveliness.
Just discovered Kuler by Adobe. Nice.
Thu 24 Dec ’09
Web fonts are coming.
Sun 6 Dec ’09
British plugs, rethought. Behold, the genius.
Thu 19 Nov ’09
The Scroll Clock. I love this!
Mon 19 Oct ’09
Raphaël is a JavaScript library for vector graphics. I think we’ll be pursuing this.
Sun 3 May ’09
Cool bendy Manhattan map.
Thu 19 Mar ’09
