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Sat, 18 May 2013 17:55:27 +0100

pronunciation | tsUn-dO-kU (tsoon-doh-koo)
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Japanese script | 積ん読 kanji, つんどく hiragana

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Cultural Source Code

Tue, 14 May 2013 20:26:29 +0100

Cultural Source Code:

cmoa-alpha:

Micah Walter, of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, in a transcript from his recent talk at the METRO Annual Meeting:

First, we wanted to begin figuring out a way to connect our data with already existing data sets. Some people called this “linked data” we just call it concordances. So we built out concordances with sites like Wikipedia, MOMA, Freebase and as you can see, many others. We don’t have concordances for every person in our collection, and they may not all be accurate, but we know which ones are missing. We believed this linking of data was incredibly crucial and moving forward we wanted our collections site to center around the idea of what Aaron calls “being of the web” vs. “being on the web.” So we continue to work on concordances.

We also wanted our website to be more approachable. We designed it with a minimalistic attitude and a somewhat whimsical style. You’ll see small jokes here and there and the language is meant to be more engaging and less “institutional.” We know that in order to be really relevant we need to disconnect ourselves from all of the institutional hand waving and move towards a website that anyone can enjoy and still gain some type of great benefit.

Patchwork

Wed, 01 May 2013 19:55:20 +0100

Patchwork

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Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:56:54 +0100

givedesignachance: Donut by Suhyun Yoo, Eunah Kim and Jinwoo...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 16:31:49 +0100

givedesignachance:

Donut by Suhyun Yoo, Eunah Kim and Jinwoo Chae

‘DONUT’ consent has a donut-shaped hole in the middle instead of two small holes. This makes life a lot easier because you can plug in all directions. You are not being constrained by just two holes. Even if this outlet is placed in out of sight. You can plug your sockets easily.

More about it: Behance

Interesting.

Forty shades.

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 16:11:49 +0100

Forty shades.

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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:45:04 +0100

"Find out what the next thing is that you can push, that you can invent,"

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:42:42 +0100

“Find out what the next thing is that you can push, that you can invent,”

- …that you can be ignorant about, that you can be arrogant about, that you can fail with, and that you can be a fool with. Because in the end, that’s how you grow.- Paula Scher (via littlelioncaitie)

buromarks: http://burgopak.com/2012/12/little-printer-packaging...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:39:54 +0100

buromarks:

http://burgopak.com/2012/12/little-printer-packaging/

"If you’re told what to look for, you can’t see anything else. So one thing is to see, in a way,..."

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:38:12 +0100

“If you’re told what to look for, you can’t see anything else. So one thing is to see, in a way, without words…. Once you have an idea, or somebody tells you something to look for, that’s about all you can see. I had this experience recently: A dear friend of ours has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, and I hadn’t seen her for about six months. And when she came and visited, I couldn’t see her anymore. I could only look now for symptoms, how the dementia was manifesting itself. I couldn’t see her through any other lens but the possible symptoms. And that one word, that one piece of knowledge totally corrupted every time I looked at her.”

- Edward Tufte (via austinkleon)

"when you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes..."

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:36:21 +0100

“when you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.”

- why the lucky stiff (now vanished) (via blurredvision) (via sunnycyl)

I’d agree with this statement….though it’s a difficult principle to keep in practice.

(via notational)

austinkleon: Brian Eno draws and lectures on art and...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:35:39 +0100

Eno lecturing

His diagram of an orchestra

Pyramid schemes

Scenius or "communal intelligence" diagram

Diagram of a slideshow

Surrender vs. control in surfing

Cultural forms of surrender

Dichotomies that should be whole

Diagram of where Elvis's art came from

Eno drawing while lecturing

austinkleon:

Brian Eno draws and lectures on art and music

Wonderful talk in Moscow from 2011 about the evolution of music as a “plastic art” and the changes in art in the 20th and 21st centuries. Includes his ideas about “scenius” and “control vs. surrender.”

Having been trained at art school, Eno is also quite the visual thinker — I drew some of these ideas while listening to a radio program with him a few years ago, so it was a pleasure to him actually draw them out himself!

Watch the lecture→

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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:26:08 +0100

pieratt: “Today’s designers don’t understand symbols...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:24:09 +0100

pieratt:

“Today’s designers don’t understand symbols anymore.”

The work of Hartmut Esslinger, founder of Frog Design.

Links:
Advice for Designers
Working with Steve Jobs

austinkleon: Zoe’s Desk | Submitted For Your...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:23:02 +0100

austinkleon:

Zoe’s Desk | Submitted For Your Perusal

@mattthomas writes a really interesting blog post about director David Fincher’s way of portraying “knowledge work”:

In a number of Fincher’s films we’re given glimpses of characters doing things like researching, writing, or coding. At some level, the bulk of his films are about characters trying to make sense of information. But such glimpses are by definition fleeting. Fincher does not so much film work as cleverly give the impression of its occurrence…

…It’s a neat trick on Fincher’s part. It’s difficult to render knowledge work cinematically (quick, what’s the last great movie about writing you remember seeing?), as opposed to physical work which more readily lends itself to Rocky-style montages, but Fincher has figured out a way to short circuit the process. Like all good filmmakers, he knows that if he gives us the signs, we will fill in the rest.

Matt then admits, “I just love images like this. I am a workspace voyeur — especially writer’s workspaces,” and then recommends Jill Krementz’s The Writer’s Desk. (The internet is the perfect place for this kind of thing: there’s a great blog that once featured my work called “From The Desk Of…”)

I like this idea of answering the question, “What do you show when you have nothing to show?” It makes me think of this great passage from Ellen Ullman’s Close To The Machine:

The disorder of the desk, the floor; the yellow Post-it notes everywhere; the whiteboards covered with scrawl: all this is the outward manifestation of the messiness of human thought.

And this line from Gay Talese: “I’m a documentarian of what it is that I do.”

Filed under: show your work

thoughtyoushouldseethis: “The Marble Answering Machine...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:20:33 +0100

thoughtyoushouldseethis:

“The Marble Answering Machine demonstrates the great potential of making digital information graspable.” This project by Durrell Bishop is from 1992. 1992!

This is over 20 years old! - Practically pre-internet.

"Verbalizing design is another act of design."

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:14:22 +0100

“Verbalizing design is another act of design.”

- Kenya Hara (via thefearsarepapertigers)

So true.

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 01:30:38 +0100

So true.

yaleuniversity: zephfarmby: Solving Each Problem As It Arises...

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 23:09:17 +0000

yaleuniversity:

zephfarmby:

Solving Each Problem As It Arises - John Baldessari

This work is currently on view at the recently renovated and expanded Yale University Art Gallery.

Dribbble Blog: Going Green: Darren Geraghty

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 19:23:05 +0000

Dribbble Blog: Going Green: Darren Geraghty:

by Susanna Baird

Seizing St. Patrick’s Day as a green-and-gold opportunity, we’ll be profiling a few Irish and Ireland-based Dribbblers over the next week.

A smart designer talking design is like a great professor delivering a lecture. Listen in on Darren Geraghty. When the UX…

Special thanks to dribbble and the talented Susanne Baird for profiling me and my work for the Computer Museum of ireland.