Great example of brain power wasting from Gamedaily.com : NPD analysts make a report on kids and digital content, find out kids like to play.

"What I think might be interesting is that game-playing drives much of kids' early use of digital devices and content."

Thanks for your insights, but what I think might be interesting is that you find a quicker way to tell your readers the air is transparent, or skip to your next analysis. Oh, and read this book if you haven't.
Game-playing is driving kids' early use of anything they can put their hands on, dear analysts, this is what childhood is made for, this is how we learn.

Labels: fingerpointing, gaming, reading

David Lynch making a point on watching a movie on a mobile device, originally from the Inland Empire special edition, edited to fit the iPhone commercials theme.
Sure, you can't fully experience a great feature film watching it on a mobile device, you'd miss a lot of the emotions a movie can convey. But having the ability to read videos on the go can be great for other purposes than entertainment and art consumption, like getting informed or learning some skills.




via Kottke.

Labels: cellphone, cinema, emotions, interface, iPhone

Only a few of the objects he designed would make it to my home because of their style and larger than necessary presence, but I've always appreciated the archetypal character of his production, his masterful sense of proportions and how he put back feelings, maybe poetry, into modern designs.
Every piece of his work I know of is a lesson ; what a sad thing to learn that the source has gone dry on monday.



Enjoy some words he gave in an interview for designboom.com back in 2000 :

"I truly believe that our duty as an architect or a designer is to design things which attract luck, rooms which protect people...
I don’t design things in any style, even less so in any fashion style,
I design things for life states."

"I think that the future doesn’t exist. What we think of today as the future isn’t the future. People are always afraid of the future, and the future has always been a disaster. Like the present is a disaster. But rhetoric about the future bothers me, because almost everything we do today we say we’re doing for the future. The future is here now, let’s try to get organized now. I don’t care about the future at all."

Q : my soul's present condition.
A : worried.

Q : the faults I can bear.
A : all of them.

Q : my motto.
A : be patient, calm, compassionate, knowing that existence is fleeting.

Labels: hero, ondesign, Product design, rip