20 Matching Annotations
  1. May 2016
  2. Apr 2016
    1. Links are associative. This is a huge deal. Links are there not only as a quick way to get to source material. They remind you of the questions you need to ask, of the connections that aren’t immediately evident.

      This just made the idea of annotations very exciting to me.

  3. Mar 2016
  4. Dec 2015
    1. Breuers Wassily chair and Le Corbusiers furniture, is an early civilized and almost forgivable sentimentalizing of the machine

      Reminds me of my "forgivable" romantic appreciation of the aesthetic of the early web.

    1. Eames – outside of the world of design scholarship and commercial licenses – has become a word applied to alchemise junk shop remnants. A word whose prefix-polish transforms the value of the object to which it has been attached, a kind of culturally magic Brasso intended to bring out particular qualities in an object, even if those qualities aren't there in the first place.
  5. Oct 2015
  6. Sep 2015
  7. Aug 2015
    1. we try to not make a specific interface. Instead, we always use the content as the interface. This is how we always design. In Cargo, there’s no design, there’s just content. You click on a thumbnail, but the thumbnail is just a smaller representation of the project. Essentially the browser is the canvas—it is the design—whereas, with a lot of web design, you see people making designs inside the browser, like a box inside a box, and then shading here, adding a bar there. But we don’t do that. We try to disappear.
  8. Jul 2015