"Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained."
— Ferdinand Alexander Porsche
"In science, if you know what you are doing, you should not be doing it. In engineering, if you do not know what you are doing, you should not be doing it. Of course, you seldom, if ever, see either pure state."
— Richard Hamming, The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
"Sometimes the truth of a thing is not so much in the think of it, as in the feel of it."
— Stanley Kubrick
Where The Wild Things Are - An early Disney CG Animation Test - Directed by John Lasseter.
(Source: youtube.com)
Matias Duarte on Roboto »
This proves that the Ice cream sandwich design team knew typography(or at least some terms used in typography). But they knew nothing about plagiarism, I guess.
"Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement."
— Otto Weininger
Andy Rubin - “I don’t think there should be apps specific for a tablet” »
I wonder who else is going down this ‘one app for multiple platforms’ road.
Roboto vs. Helvetica »
Google announced the mouthful known as “Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich” today. The first bullet point of their presentation was a new system-wide font, Roboto. John Gruber quickly pointed out what had caught my eye as well: Roboto sure looks a lot like Helvetica, the typeface so famous they
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