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Why Apple’s New Campus Is Bad for Urban America
If you care about cities, about walkable communities, about healing the crappy environment thrust upon us for the last four decades in the form of suburban sprawl, then get a refund on that new iPad 3. Take your iPhone back, too. Because its manufacturer is betting that the company is cool enough to get away with violating even the most basic tenets of smart growth and walkability in the sprawling, car-dependent design of its new headquarters.
Don’t let them collect on that bet.
While communities all up and down the Silicon Valley are trying to repair sprawl by replacing it with smart growth, Apple is actually taking a site that is now parking lots and low-rise boxes and making it worse for the community. Yes, it will be iconic, assuming you think a building shaped like a whitewall motorcycle tire is iconic, but it will reduce current street connectivity, seal off potential walking routes and essentially turn its back on its community. With a parking garage designed to hold over ten thousand cars, by the way.
Tags Landscape Architecture Cities Urbanism Urban Planning Silicon Valley Apple Technology
Reblogged from The Atlantic Source theatlanticcities.com
Tags Computers Technology Apple Macintosh OS Memories Nostalgia
Reblogged from this isn't happiness. Source nevver
The designs of Apple’s Senior VP of Industrial Design, Johnathan Ive and his inspiration, Dieter Rams in Stylectrical at Museum für Kunst und Gerwerbe Hamburg. [Click images for details.]
Well, that’s literal.
Quite.
Tags Design Industrial Design Apple Braun Johnathan Ive Dieter Rams Stylectrical
Reblogged from A bit late Source kateoplis
ETA: Um. Kind of don’t understand all of the, “Dude, Google that, it’s so fake,” crap going on about this today; just because it’s an old joke doesn’t make it any less full of LULz. Fucking relax, people.
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Reblogged from Creeping Jesus Source reddit.com
Go Mobile | The Future of Writing on Tablets
In a Q&A with Oliver Reichenstein of Information Architects (@iA), we explored what the future of writing looks like on tablets, and what the future of Web design holds.
Reichenstein, who started the company in Tokyo in 2005, said his greatest influence for creating the app Writer for iPad was not being able to speak Japanese.
When you can’t read the language, everything is defined in forms, everything becomes a user interface. You look at the world as if it were a blueprint.
When I designed Writer, I tried to look at things from the perspective of someone who cannot read.
Excellent interview in the LA Times with Information Architects. I may be notoriously anti-eBooks in terms of my personal aesthetics / practices, but I love reading about applications for them from a design perspective, particularly from people who are obviously putting so much intelligent thought into the design process. Exquisite words and insights.
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