I am so happy to be back in the beautiful, sunny city of San Francisco!
Goodbye New York, it’s been real! East Village has treated me well. I’m headed home to my beautiful California. I’ll be listening to Markus Schulz‘s new album Scream as I fly off into the sunset.
Here are some beautiful photographs of my two cities.
Some great shots of New York
Photograph by Aleks Ivic
Photograph by Amador Esquiu
Photograph by Navid Baraty
Photograph by Navid Baraty
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And some of San Francisco
Photograph by Simon Christen
Photograph by Simon Christen
Photograph by George Steinmetz
Photograph by Laurence Maccario
Photograph by Hawkeye Aerial
(surprisingly there is not a very good source of excellent photographs of San Francisco online that I could find, which is odd, because it’s one of the most beautiful places on earth.)
Good Design wins every time! (Good design doesn’t mean pretty. It means well thought about.) Please, if you haven’t, read the biography of Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson. Then go reread Dieter Rams’ Ten Principals of Good Design. Every designer should have the knowledge from these two icons in his or her personal brain arsenal.
New York Times published this article earlier today. This is a great win for Apple, and I am happy to learn that other people still value original ideas and intellectual property. I would like to pull out a few quotes, but please go read the whole article; it’s quite interesting.
In a statement, Katie Cotton, an Apple spokeswoman, applauded the court for sending a “clear message that stealing isn’t right.” […] “We make these products to delight our customers, not for our competitors to flagrantly copy,” she said.
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Samsung had asked for more than $422 million from Apple, contending it had violated Samsung’s patents, but got nothing.
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The verdict could also bolster Apple’s legal attacks on Android devices from other companies and deter them from incorporating iPhone-like features in their products.”It’s going to make it very difficult for not only Samsung, but for other companies to mimic the Apple products,” said Robert Barr, executive director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Read the rest of the article here
Christopher Boffoli‘s series, Big Appetites, featured on Colossal, is a wonderful series of photographs. On his site, you’ll find clever captions paired with each image, and the dpi is enticingly excellent. Go take a look!
He begins to describe his work, “The genesis of my Big Appetites series of fine art photographs was in a lot of the media I was exposed to as a child. There were so many films and television shows that exploited both the dramatic and comedy potential of a juxtaposition of different scales: tiny people in a normal-sized world. It is a surprisingly common cultural theme going back all the way to Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels in the 18th century and perhaps earlier.” continue reading
This is a collective from David Airey‘s Logo Design Love. Just a few recent posts of his that I found particularly interesting. Click on the screen-shot to read his post.
stream of consciousness 