This last week, I was invited by Dave Gray to the 2008 Sarasota International Design Summit.
There really is too much to summarize in a single post, but here are some of the highlights as I saw them.
People
I had the honor of meeting and befriending some amazing folks. A partial list:
Jennifer Magnolfi, Matt Jones, Timo Arnall, [...]
Technology Is What Makes Us Human:
Fantastic essay on the way that the tools we use shape us.
I sketch almost all the parts I make. This sort of back of the envelope scribbling is very different from precise engineering drawings - I change my mind all the time, scrubbing over the lines [...]
Via blackbeltjones.com/work:
I’ve come to the hypothesis that all engineering problems can be solved through the methodical appliance of yellow stickers. It’s amazing how much you can talk and talk, but when you finally draw it all up and put it on the wall, and rearrange a bit, suddenly things just [...]
(I have a bug in my ear about a particular project that I’d sketched, kind of forgot about, rediscovered, and keep on revolving around to. Lucky you, you get to hear about it.)
Vladimir Nabokov wrote on index cards, and this enabled him to create wonderfully nonlinear books. One of my favorites is Pale Fire, a [...]
Jack Schulze and Matt Webb have been on fire, lately. They’ve got a new blog, Pulse Laser (after the classic C64 game Elite). And in the first week or so, they’ve managed to write a bunch of things that made my inner design geek stand up and wave its little antennae around.
(I envision my inner [...]
One of the nice things about displaying your mental illness on Flickr is that like minds find you. And then they give you more things to twitch and drool over, yay!
For example, I thought I was the interweb’s “index card guy.” But it seems I’m going to have to cede the title to Flickr user [...]
Moleskinerie has a letter from Modo & Modo S.p.a. (the company responsible for the Moleskine notebook).
While we were on vacation (yes, yes, Italians love vacations…and even more this year, since we had something to celebrate after the World Cup!) we received 37 several e-mails. There also has been some discussion on several Internet [...]
Core77’s Design Blog made me jump out of my skin yesterday:
Russian design company Maslov introduces USB-powered E-Paper, a programmable cardboard tablet that joins shortcut technology with good ol’ fashioned hand-written notes. Post-its recommended.
First reaction: OMGWTF!
Second reaction: Sweet Jeebus, don’t tell me that this is a fricking piece of cardboard with a USB cable [...]
It is a great comfort, when browsing the web, to see that I am not the only sad bastard that’s been trapped by the allure of analog technology.
