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A Brief Rant

Salton Sea: Rest-au-rant
On the future of interaction design, by Bret Victor.



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15 Nov 2011

In: Cultural Norms
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AR Guideline Perspective

Been using Illustrator these last few days – guidelines galore. In an highly augmentable world, when the sky is your easel, what are your guidelines?
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5 Billion Customers Can’t be Wrong

09 Jul 2010

In: Future Perfect
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(Or can it? A % of those customers will have 2nd and 3rd subscriptions) An ITU press release from early 2010 with the estimate of 5 …
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Sign Semantics

15 Jun 2010

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Another sign with a whole bunch of cultural assumptions – from a day in the Southern California desert.
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Last Meter Access

15 Apr 2010

In: Design Inspiration
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A ladder is chained to the top of each an every date tree in this palm farm.
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Boundary Markers I

08 Apr 2010

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The idea that a sign can be for “official use only”. What ideas does the word ‘official’ conjure up for you? Protection? Transparency? Knowing who …
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Manufactured Palms

08 Apr 2010

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Yet another mobile phone cell tower this time disguised as a palm tree – from a dawn sojourn through the southern California desert.
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Realities Distorted

07 Apr 2010

In: Future Perfect
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Water reflection of a powerline tower above (rotated photograph above) and the full dawn scene below. Thought for today – the reflective properties of surfaces …
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OnStar Social

06 Apr 2010

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As I found out the hard way with my first summer job – the cost of putting diesel in a petrol tank is that the …
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Three Rules To Survive Corporate Life

04 Apr 2010



Three simple rules to surviving corporate life with a smile: 1. If you look forward to fridays, you’re not doing it right 2. Leave the rat-race to …
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