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October 2010
23 posts
“Innovation is almost insane by definition: most people view any truly innovative idea as stupid, because if it was a good idea, somebody would have already done it. So, the innovator is guaranteed to have more natural initial detractors than followers.”
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— Ben Horowitz
Via Signal vs. Noise
“The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.”
—Marty Neumeier
How Analog Rituals Can Amp Your Productivity →
the99percent.com
More efficient doesn’t always mean more productive. The advantages of slowing down and prioritizing the old-fashioned way—by hand.
“In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior decorating. It’s the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.”
—Steve Jobs
Signalnoise Source: 10 PSDs, $75 →
blog.signalnoise.com
I always love seeing how other designers approach their work, and this chance to see how James White, Signalnoise, creates his complex and beautiful artwork is fascinating. I’ll be buying this one later today to dig in.
For those of you who have been around digital for quite some time it might remind you of when Joshua Davis sold his Praystation hard drive. I still have mine sitting around here somewhere.
“People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It’s not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn’t know it was missing.”
—Paola Antonelli
