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Ice Cube takes us to the Eames House and celebrates their vision and design. The Eames’ are design heroes.
The Eames House, Case Study House #8, was one of roughly two dozen homes built as part of The Case Study House Program.
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Understanding the commitment it takes to create a culture that cares for and maintains brand values was one of the things that Steve Jobs worked hard at. We’ll see what that hard work has done in the days ahead now that Apple has lost him.
Read More“To me, marketing is about values. This is a very complicated world, it’s a very noisy world and we’re not going to get a chance to get people to remember much about us, no company is. And so we have to be really clear on what we want them to know about us. Now Apple fortunately is one of the half a dozen best brands in the whole world, right up there with Nike, Disney, Coke, Sony… But even a great brand needs investment and caring if it’s going to retain its relevance and vitality.”
– Steve Jobs, Discussing the “Think Different” ad campaign, Sept. 30, 1997
“By the way, what have you done that’s so great?
Do you create anything, or just criticize other’s work
and belittle their motivations?”
Steve Jobs
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It’s Ada Lovelace day. Celebrate women in technology.
Ada Lovelace — Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ada Lovelace. Born, 10 December 1815(1815–12-10) London. Died, 27 November 1852(1852–11-27) (aged 36) Marylebone, London. Nationality, British. Title, Countess of Lovelace. Spouse, 1st Earl of Lovelac…
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Just remember to step back from the problem. You get a clearer perspective.
Steve Wozniak talking about Steve Jobs.
“He thinks very much about getting technology out of the picture. From the very start until today, it’s about how you make something seem like it’s not a piece of technology in the way that you don’t have to learn all these geeky, techie steps to get something done.”
At Stellarvisions we’ve always felt the same way.
Two of our key beliefs:
technology should be transparent and intuitive and
it is essential to maintain humanity in a technological space
We hope we’re just a tiny fraction as successful as Steve in making that happen.
Read MoreSo Push Pop Press bails on it’s entrepreneurial dream to work for Zuck.
Really seemed that their software idea shown here in the guided tour for Al Gore’s Our Choice wasn’t mind bending in use of technology. The real interest was in Al Gore’s book.
We were never sold on the answer for books on the iPad being in a closed format. We need books to embrace open standards so authors are given the ability to publish easily. We don’t need another Flash.
Everything we see in the demo uses standard interface gestures supplied by Apple. How will Facebook embrace Push Pop’s brand of engineering? Will they be able to invent new publishing environment for Facebook on top of it’s strange cultural technology? Only if Zuck can really embrace and value what designers of this kind can do and make design part of the lifecycle of Facebook evolution.
But will that take serious re-engineering?
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