Morning information design brief.
62% of sun.
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
— Steve Jobs (via minimalmac)
Picasso was in a park when a woman approached him and asked him to draw a portrait of her. Picasso agreed and quickly sketches her. After handing the sketch to her, she is pleased with the likeness and asks how much she owed to him. Picasso replies: “$5,000.”
The woman screamed, “but it took you only five minutes.”
“No, madam, it took me all my life,” replied Picasso.
"If there’s one thing I’ve learned about living a life it’s that you need to keep moving, and if there’s another thing it’s that you really should quit your job every once in a while and take on something new, maybe even something that seems crazy and scares the hell out of you."
— Jonathan Coulton (via everyone, their second cousin twice removed, and Jack Cheng) (via minimalmac)
"There’s an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. ‘I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.’ And we’ve always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very very beginning. And we always will."
— Steve Jobs (via minimalmac)
What defines me?
A thirst for knowledge, a lust for modernism, striving for minimalism in everything whilst being a terrible, terrible hoarder.
Trying to fuse the iconoclastic punk spirit that I grew up with with some sort of business sense (I want my ‘68 Mustang).
Wanting to be good at everything and be everything - I breathe graphic design but every day I wish I was a product designer, interior designer or an architect. Can’t complain though - typography is up there with girl’s bottoms.
My vintage writing corner (via Riccardo Mori)
I’m not quite sure what it is about this classic setup that I am drawn to. Perhaps it is the idea that, back in the day, you could get a lot done with this relatively simple setup.
In fact, for at least 3 years my Newton Messagepad was my main computer. I had a Performa 550 for a desktop machine but it acted mainly as a hub for my Newton. I used it for everything from surfing the web to email to writing articles for magazines.
All of this is to say that most people do not need as much as they think they do. Even I am guilty of only using a fraction of the computing power at my disposal 99% of the time. More often than not, even a setup this old would be enough.
want this
"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity."
— Charles Mingus (via minimalmac)
"Good design is innovative.
Good design makes a product useful.
Good design is aesthetic.
Good design helps us to understand a product.
Good design is unobtrusive.
Good design is honest.
Good design is durable.
Good design is consequent to the last detail.
Good design is concerned with the environment.
Good design is as little design as possible.
Back to purity, back to simplicity."
—
Dieter Rams (via minimalmac)
Tattooing this on my eyeballs
