Frank Stella’s Adelante
Adelante (1964) by Frank Stella painting | metallic powder in polymer emulsion on canvas Saw this again in person on Saturday at SFMOMA. One of my favorite paintings. The lines are made from the negative spacing between the polymer. Gorgeous in its subtlety.
Helveticize Your Web
It’s been fun to see new scripts and themes developed to “Helveticize” the web, starting with Google Reader, then Google Calendar, Gmail, and now Twitter. If you’re a Helvetica lover, you’re in luck. Get rid of multiple fonts and cluttered interfaces and give your apps a minimalist makeover. It is just a visual makeover, though, ...
QLOCKTWO For the Wall and the iPhone
Naturally, I’m drawn to the minimalism of the QLOCKTWO, a physical clock ($1,268.20 USD) and an iPhone/iPod Touch app ($.99, iTunes link). But I also love the human quality – why not tell the time in words? This is QLOCKTWO, the fourth dimension squared. A clock that tells time in words. It has a quadratic ...
Think Small
“Matthew Adams outside his 120-square-foot house by Modern Cabana on his 160 acres near Red Bluff, Calif. He wanted a well-designed dwelling that would have the least effect on his land.” Minimalism and thinking small meshes well with eco-friendly culture and attempts to live off the grid. From an article at the NYTImes. A wave ...
A-Z West
Andrea Zittel has always been one of my favorite artists since I saw her work in NYC in the late nineties. The NYTImes has a review of her latest work in Rethinking the World by Cutting it Down to Size. That she puts her money where her mouth is, so to speak, is evident in ...
Design something original
Princeton Technology has created a hard drive that’s “inspired by” the Mac Mini, so much so that it really looks just like it other than the logo etched on the top and side.. not the kind of font that Steve Jobs would approve. Frankly, I like the silver-white-milky aesthetic of the Mini’s design and Apple’s ...
Mac Mini
Smaller is better. The new Mac Mini is lighter and thinner than my firewire drive.