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Fanboys

Let’s just say yes up front. If you’re a Mac user, now or at any point, you probably remember the models you used with great, perhaps alarming, clarity. Perhaps the first one was at school, or a friend’s house. Most likely not the office, but there are exceptions. You may have vivid memories of some aspects of the then-current OS: some version of 7 or 8, or, if you’re on that side of thirty, maybe Jaguar or Panther. Maybe even iOS. Maybe you remember beige Macs; maybe bondi. Maybe all you know is aluminum and white polycarbonate.

Thu, Aug 25, 2011 |Design

The Brand New AFC-120

So Harry Marks and I had a brief back and twitforth on the new “statement-making” BlackBerry Performa Torch 9810/50/60, and why and how RIM may want to streamline their product line.

Thu, Aug 4, 2011 |Design

I'm Losing My Edge

With apologies to James Murphy.

Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Twitter and from Google+.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at Doug Englebart's Mother of All Demos.
In San Francisco.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose tweets I see when they get on the phones.
I'm losing my edge to the Internet seekers who can tell me every tweet of every good designer from early 2007 to late 2007.
I'm losing my edge.

Tue, Jul 26, 2011 |Design

The Emperor, the Artist, and the Fish

The Emperor commanded the court Artist to draw him a fish. But, he commanded, it must capture the fish's life perfectly, render the essence of the fish so precisely as to be almost alive itself. The Artist went off, and set to work.

Some time passed, and the Emperor inquired after the Artist's progress. The Artist sent word to the Emperor that the work was proceeding as it should. The Emperor was mollified for the time being.

Tue, Mar 22, 2011 |Design
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