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"People create to figure something out. It's not to share an answer, I think its to find an answer" - Julie Zhou đź“°I released some music this week on Spotify & on Bandcamp. Looking Reading Cory Doctorow - The Bezzle The BezzleMoney-laundering, cyber-knavery and shell-company chicanery:
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"Your success as a designer depends equally on your relationships as it does on your design talent" Looking Using Kagi Search Kagi Search - A Premium Search EngineBetter search results with no ads. Welcome to Kagi (pronounced kah-gee), a paid search engine that gives power back to the
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"Resonance is a design problem" Looking Using An online museum of Sainsbury's packaging design Search | Catalogue | Sainsbury ArchiveSearch Sainsbury Archive catalogueNew search Erica Fustero's Visual Journal A drawing a day · February – Erica FusteroErica Fustero Reading A little outdated but an easy to read primer
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"Boasting is what a boy does, who has no real effect in the world. But craftsmanship must reckon with the infallible judgment of reality" Visual Product Album -> Palette album → palette Reading Digital Minimalism Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal NewportMinimalism
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Taste is the ability to identify quality Can an AI have Taste? If taste is universal and objective then an AI should eventually be able to identify quality and therefore have taste. 👨‍💻I'm not talking about aggregating human signals to understand what humans think quality is (Algorithmic Taste)
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"The garden is an unhappy place for the perfectionist. Too much stands beyond our control. The only thing we can absolutely count on is eventual catastrophe." Visual Product Every IKEA Catalogue for the last 50 years Gör en tidsresa med IKEA kataloger 1951-2021 - IKEA MuseumBläddra i IKEA
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"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" - Picasso Visual Product Tellus — Oaka InstrumentsActive, low noise and highly sensitive contact microphone designed for field recording and sound design. It enables the exploration of sound worlds usually hidden from our audible range. Hand made in Dorset, UK.
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My first interview for an "internet" job was a front end developer. I was interviewed by the lovely Dave Gill Except this wasn't the usual terrifying interview where I bluffed about intangibles like passion, hard work and determination to get a job I needed but didn&
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"The personal is the universal" - Carl Rogers Visual Product Not technically a product, but this is a beautiful dive into the new default typeface from Microsoft. The craft of typography never ceases to leave me in awe. Behind the design: A deep dive into Aptos | Microsoft DesignJourney
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"The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity... And this means: we fail to be struck by what, once seen, is most striking and most powerful." - Ludwig Wittgenstein Visual Inspiration Product Inspiration Napkin I like the idea
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February 2024
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"A common source of uninformed despair is when a too-brief effort doesn't bring a desired result" Visual Inspiration Product Inspiration Sora Sora: Creating video from text Ok it's not a product yet, but it will be and I'm more excited about this
