“ [A]n exploded, porous book whose every page could become an all-comprehending theater of the present and a staging ground for ever-surprising futures.
László Moholy-Nagy’s Bauhaus ideal of the book, as paraphrased by Jeffrey Schnapp and Adam Michaels in The Electric Information Age Book
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“ [A] talented, dictatorial auteur will produce better work than polls, focus groups, or hundreds of compromising committees.
Mills Baker
“ [C]reative ideas must be understood as hypotheses about certain sorts of problems. For the writer, the painter, the designer are all trying to solve a specific problem, and their hypotheses cannot be averaged anymore than Galileo’s could. While persuasion and collaboration are perfectly sensible, the real advantage the best innovators and creators have is that they understand that compromise is epistemologically invalid and procedurally fatal.
Mills Baker
“ [A] well-developed creative idea — a design, a song, a poem — is not an assembly of fungible units. It is a complete hypothesis unto itself about what will work for a given human purpose.
Mills Baker
Drift Deck is up for a “People’s Choice” IxDA Interaction Award
“ We need to start treating discovery, connection and sharing as creative acts.
an idea from Maria Popova via Matt Thompson in “5 provocative ideas sparked by women in media” (via bettyann)
Bike Signal Shirt, by Eloi Collective (David Bellona)
The final frame of History of Tokyo, Bunpei Yorifuji, also (via roomthily)
Waves (Response to a Blog Post), by Daniel Anderson
“This is my response to the blog posting, The Digital Humanities and the Transcending of Mortality. See the mantra: you don’t study digital composing, you perform it.”
“ The fun part of research is finding what you aren’t looking for.
Erik Spiekermann
MUST WATCH: Wilson Miner on “When We Build” at Build
Update: Here’s a link to Wilson’s notes, including references. I’ll have more to say about this, but that will have to wait for now. Watch the video. Watch the video.
When you photograph you give up much of the quality of the immediate experience; but the payoff is that you have this record, these images that you can refer to and use for the rest of your life.
—attributed to Charles Eames (photo by Alissa Walker)
“Keith is a dustman who is shot into the future by a Time Vortex. He meets three companions and they start an epic adventure and It’s up to you to fill in the gaps.”
—One Page Graphic Novel, by Henry Flint
Currently on top of the world (made with Streetview Stereographic, via Where)
“ [W]ork to create small-is-beautiful alternatives.
Alan Jacobs
