A blog of aggregated miscellanea and things I like uncovered from my daily travails. I'm Jacob, a peripatetic interdisciplinary designer of British persuasion, having interests in gastronomy, fashion, technology, interiors and sustainability. I'm currently working on online e-Commerce and identity. I dig Macs, mountain biking and smelly cheese.
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The Acceleration of Addictiveness
People commonly use the word “procrastination” to describe what they do on the Internet. It seems to me too mild to describe what’s happening as merely not-doing-work. We don’t call it procrastination when someone gets drunk instead of working. —Paul Graham
“If I were rich, this would be a plasma screen.”
‘Hard Times,’ a collection of signs (bought) from the homeless, by Michael Zinman, in the Design Observer.
“ Modern technology has deprived man of the kind of work that he enjoys most, and given him plenty of work of a fragmented kind, most of which he does not enjoy at all ”
E.F. Schumacher, 1973; via No Tech Magazine: Characteristics of Modern Technique (3).
“ The most dangerous way to lose time is not to spend it having fun, but to spend it doing fake work. ”
‘How to Lose Time and Money’ by Paul Graham.
‘Jean-Micheal Basquiat - The Radiant Child’ — a film by Tamra Davis
How to Change the World
«Initiatives toward Sustainable Business, Design and Technology» an Aalto University (Helsinki) course for students of social entrepreneurship, working with NGOs on real-life social impact projects.
“ The control which designers know in the print medium, and often desire in the web medium, is simply a function of the limitation of the printed page. We should embrace the fact that the web doesn’t have the same constraints, and design for this flexibility. But first, we must “accept the ebb and flow of things. ”
John Allsopp, 2000; Responsive Web Design on A List Apart.
‘STOP POP & ROLL’ by Aakash Nihalani; via Ponoko
“ If what you are describing is even close to reality then we might be in for 5-10 years of oil flow at say 200,000 barrels a day. That’d … well, no point going further. ”
«A long staircase. Next to it a slide. Which way would you go?» Volkswagen marketing at Alexanderplatz.
