An investigation into the 21st century

There, I fixed it!

Maybe one day, in a land far far from here, innovatie printer design will see the light of day

For Koolhaas and OMA, books aren't luxuries – they are the residue of a process. These are architects trained to think and work through books as just another material, like concrete and glass. The vast amounts of research regurgitated by the OMA machine gets sifted and refined in book form, keeping the method transparent and the information easy to re-use. Nothing is ever wasted, and in that sense there is no such thing as failure. If the research doesn't turn into a building, there's always the book.

on books

good to see for real

Hacking a kindle sleeve

In Holland, we have two words for design. One is vormgeving; in German formgeben. And the other word is ontwerpen; in German entwurf. In the Anglo-Saxon language there’s only one word for design, which is design. That is something you should work out. Vormgeving is more to make things look nice. So for instance, packaging for a perfume or for chocolate in order to make things fashionable, obsolete and therefore bad for society because we don’t really need it. While ontwerpe means, and the Anglo-saxon word, but its stronger, means engineering. That means you as a person try to invent a new thing—which is intelligent, which is clever, and which will have a long-life. And that’s called stylistic durability. It means you can use it for a long time.

vormgeven might mean, the giver of shape, whilst ontwerp might be to create out of other material or to uncover out of the raw package

new windows, pretty awesome!

The new gowalla story telling app

Companies do not allow crazy people, that's part of their problem

Many awesome examples of visual storytelling, ikea's cookbook remaining one of my favourites