Apr
18
Looks like my desk some days.
(via thingsorganizedneatly)
Paper Bits
Digital, Paper, Notes, Bits.
Posts tagged paper
Apr
10
The craft on display in this video (of a book being created with traditional printing methods) is compelling and hypnotic.
Nov
14
Ritornell for Musicbox (by Ritornell)
If it isn’t clear from the video, this is a business card. Lovely.
Feb
27
Make: Online » The Nomadic Productions of Detroit Mini Assembly Line
The team collaborates with local communities and utilizes site-specific printing and manufacturing tools to produce limited edition books and other publications. The assembly line concept is influenced by Henry Ford’s manufacturing processes (Fordism) and integrated with contemporary “print-on-demand” (POD) practices, which are inspired by Toyota’s “just-in-time” production model. Detroit Mini Assembly Line (DMAL) is a flexible, collaborative, and improvisational printing and production team whose goal is to travel the globe collaboratively producing idiosyncratic publications. Each iteration of the project operates within the circumstances and constraints of each location’s unique cultural conditions.
I love everything about this.
Feb
8
“Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to vanillin. When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks down and smells good. Which is how divine providence has arranged for secondhand bookstores to smell like good quality vanilla absolute, subliminally stoking a hunger for knowledge in all of us.”
Why secondhand bookstores smell good
Perfumes: The Guide (via YMFY)
Nov
24
A “laser” printer that prints with erasable graphite?
Where can I buy this wonderful toy?
(via rafaelfajardo)
Nov
4
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
22
A preview of something I’m working on…
Oct
17
I hate it when this happens…
Oct
15
Anatomy of a smart thing (by Dave Gray)
Today’s design challenge, says Kuniavsky, is to create a practice of ubiquitous computing user experience design. Such a practice is by necessity cross-disciplinary, involving identity design (what makes the product or service memorable and unique), interface design (modes of functionality), industrial design (physicality), interaction design (how you can interact with it), information design (how it displays information), service design (how the service maintains consistency across many objects devices and experiences), and information architecture (organizing principles for the information).
This is also what makes the iteration and sketching of smart things tricky: the temptation is to try and get all of this stuff right at once. And you can’t.
What you can do, is create sketch experiments on one or maybe two of these axis at a time, iterate a lot, and sanity-check your stuff with other people.
Like the boxes-and-sticker sketching at PaperCamp 2:
