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Stephen Fry on the iPhone's smartphone competitors

I'm struggling to grab a short quote from Stephen Fry's massive blog post on recent major iPhone competitors, but here goes anyway - on the success of the iPhone:

This is no triumph of style over substance. iPhone is all about function, all about ease and pleasure of real, hard-working use, all about the fundamental understanding that is Steve Jobs and Jony Ive’s great contribution to digital (and therefore cultural) life in our time – that human beings, willy-nilly, forge relationships even with inanimate objects and that those relationships, being human, take on all the colours of emotion: it is in our DNA for this to be the case... this is a deep and important human psychological truth that allows machines to function better: much, much better.

And from the comments comes a suggestion for a syncing Apple's iCal and Google Calendar - Calaboration - seems to work admirably.

Filed under  //   design   iphone   stephenfry   userinterface  
Posted December 11, 2008
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Bertone - 70s car design beauty

Via, um, Kanye West - ("Now this is my kind of shit! This cuts my soul... in a good way!!!")

Great pic - love the way the cars' lines mirror the underside of the building above....

Filed under  //   70s   car   design  
Posted August 28, 2008
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Back to the future - Sir Basil Spence exhibition

We can fully recommend the current exhibition at the Herbert in Coventry, celebrating the career of the prolific architect Sir Basil Spence. The Herbert is a perfect setting for the exhibition, walk out of the doors and along the building and you can see what is arguably Sir Baz's masterwork, Coventry Cathedral. Makes me feel better about the place every time I see it.

I'll be going again before it closes at the end of August so I can write something better up. 

The exhibition mentions that Spence designed three other churches in Coventry, but didn't seem to name them. Doing a quick search on Flickr brings them up, all rather more brutalist and economically built than the humanistic modernism of the Cathedral - St. Oswald in Tile Hill, St. John in Willenhall, and St. Chad in Wood End.

Filed under  //   art   coventry   design   exhibition   herbert  
Posted August 3, 2008
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Last.fm redesign: feh

I mean, it's ok but it ain't nothing special, like. It looks a bit lost, something isn't quite right. "Recently listened tracks" looks too wide - what's with the massive white space inbetween the track title and the time played? I think they could easily rearrange that to fit more content in higher up without making it look too hectic. I'd probably make the selected tab on the left a bit more prominent, it's a bit weak at the minute.

New Ladytron album is really really dull, by the way, I really don't get the universal critical love for it. I had to stop listening to the last track "Versus", it was horrendous...

Filed under  //   design   lastfm   web  
Posted July 22, 2008
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James Bond book covers

 
Good lord. The artist is Robert McGinnis, and there's a fair bit more of his work on Flickr. (via thedeplorableword)

 

Filed under  //   books   design   jamesbond  
Posted July 2, 2008
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