Rob Cottingham (via Cameron Moll):
The debate will rage for a long time over what piece of technology best encapsulates Steve Jobs’ influence on our world: The iPhone? iPod? iMac? iPad? OS X and Aqua? But I’m going to argue for something a lot more low-tech: the turtleneck.
That, to me, captures the excitement Jobs both conveyed and sparked in others over his vision. It wasn’t just another gadget or a feature or an online service; it was his ability to say, ‘This can help you change things.’
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Nice use of pictograms in this student packaging project by Sascha Elmers. (via Stephen Coles)
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Lucky Peach, the new quarterly food magazine from Momofuku’s David Chang and McSweeney’s. Ridiculously excited about this!
(Source: youmightfindyourself)
“For every new feature we add, we take an old one out. A lot of big sites don’t do that, and it’s a problem. Twitter started as a beautifully simple product, but it’s now going the same route as Facebook. The drive to innovate can overencumber and destroy a product.” — Good advice from Tumblr co-founder David Karp, in a frank and wide-ranging interview with Inc.’s Liz Welch.
Among new work at Matt Lehman Studio, this logo for the March 2011 edition of Esquire’s “Eat Like A Man” section.
Smells Like Screen Spirit’s Don Simpson reviews Errol Morris’ new film, Tabloid:
Former Miss Wyoming and S&M call girl with an IQ of 168 and a penchant for cinnamon massage oil, kidnaps and rapes a rotund Mormon; years later, she clones her dog… Boy, it sure does not get much better than that.