January 2008
19 posts
"Klassik" by Lynne →
My friends Ben and Sarah just visited this vintage furniture store in Emeryville. I’ve never heard of it before, but now I really want to go. I’m posting it on the blog so you all can remind me, “Hey, Leah, did you ever visit that vintage furniture store in Emeryville?”
Feltron Eight Annual Report →
Chris just turned me on to this. Why have I never heard of this before? Designer Nicholas Felton’s personal annual report is full of of fascinating charts, graphs, and numbers — thoughtfully employed and beautifully designed. It’s a visualization party!
“Dieter Rams’ 10 principles for good design:
• Good design is innovative....”
– The Future Of Apple Is In 1960s Braun: 1960s Braun Products Hold the Secrets to Apple’s Future
The Story of Stuff →
This is 20 minutes long but fascinating and important. Watch it!
My grandmother's pride is not unwarranted →
User Experience Specialist (what I do for a living) is on US News and World Report’s best careers for 2008 list.
Orphaned hedgehogs adopt cleaning brush as their... →
Thoughts on Kindling →
Friend and brainiac Andy Day has some interesting thoughts on Kindling, Amazon’s new eReader device. In addition to some sensible questions about the service model, Andy gets all modern and space-age on you and asks why can’t Kindle just be a computer? As he points out, the Kindle sells for about the same price as certain low-end laptops. Actually, I’m tempted to invert his...
