Paper Bits

Jun 4

Icon’s “Rethink”: turning receipts into ‘paper apps’ – Blog – BERG

We’ve added semi-useful info-visualisation of the foods ordered based on “what the till knows” – sparklines, trends – and low-tech personalisation of information that might be useful to regulars. Customers can select events or news stories they are interested in by ticking a check box.

We think the humble receipt could be something like a paper “app” and be valuable in small and playful ways.

Endless Notebooks – Blog – BERG

Reason number 36,643 why I want to buy everyone at BERG a beer:

Tom Armitage describes a series of experiments by Jack Schulze in bound notebooks.

That? The way I just said it? It’s wrong. It’s… look, read the article. It resists compression. It’s about objects as components of services, and “[d]esigning books around needs rather than form-factor.”

One pull quote that doesn’t represent the whole, because you’re going to read the whole thing:

And this, of course, matches the way we work: a small amount of work in progress, ongoing, imperfect; the rest archived off for reference and posterity. There’s still value in that remainder, but it’s not worth carrying around everywhere with you. The notebook remains of relevance in the present; the separated, archived sections become archival content. This reminds me a lot of Hedeigger: the current notebook, in your hands, is Zuhanden, “ready-to-hand”, a practical concern; the archival sections are Vorhanden, “present-at-hand”, reified information.

Brilliant stuff.

Go.

You read.

Oct 15

Making Future Magic: the book (by BERG Studio)