Thanks to ZipCar, there are two little Fiats on my corner that make me smile every morning as I walk to work. One red, one tan, little bursts of fun in an industry that not only helps me forget about those J.Lo commercials, but injects some much needed personality into the category. Which is something [...]
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Like everyone else in the world, I just finished reading Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs. It’s very readable, if not a little repetitive. And one point I disagree with got repeated the most. “Steve Jobs,” he writes, “managed to see the big picture while still focusing on the littlest details.” True, Jobs would set [...]
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Phaidon publishes the world’s most gorgeous books. Spend a few minutes on their site and tell me you don’t want to own everything they’ve produced, from the Art of French Baking to the Atlas of 21st Century Architecture to Dieter Rams’s “As Little Design As Possible.” Print, thankfully, is alive and kicking. So when I [...]
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From OXO to Kohler and Herman Miller to Target, good design is at the core of many American businesses. But after a short list of the usual suspects, and a review of the usual products, what is the state of design in America? What exactly is design, where is design’s epicenter, and how do you [...]
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Thinking about the basic elements of my life and what draws me in, I now recognize what’s been trending for a while. I am a minimalist. With limited exception, brands and overall aesthetic appeal to me if it is clean, stripped down and modern. That applies to everything from home décor to wine to soap [...]
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Pirates vs. The Navy
Just when I thought the Steve Jobs articles were fading away, along comes “An HR Lesson From Steve Jobs” on Fast Company’s Co.Design blog. And instead of inspiring the designers or tinkerers among us, this one is for the HR department. The article is an excerpt from What Would Steve Jobs Do?: How the Steve [...]
tags: Apple, Design, Steve Jobs
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