Read Steve Jobs’ full “Thoughts On Flash” here.
Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short.
The avalanche of media outlets offering their content for Apple’s mobile devices demonstrates that Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of web content. And the 200,000 apps on Apple’s App Store proves that Flash isn’t necessary for tens of thousands of developers to create graphically rich applications, including games.
New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.
This Uniqlo campaign just epitomizes the design aesthetic I find so authentic and attractive. Perfectly honest photographs and cautiously, disciplined and crafted shape & form. Perfection.
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I saw La Haine when it came out and as soon as it was on DVD I bought it. I lent it out and it’s whereabouts are now unknown. Nevertheless, this is easily on my top ten of all time list, perhaps number 1. Black and white, with a close up, in your face attention to detail you’ll only see in a film like Jean Luc Goddard’s Alphaville. Alphaville I saw with a film maker friend of mine right after we graduated from college. Incredible, every shot is treated witht he care that a still photograph would be. Now that I think of it, I’m willing to bet Wong Kar Wai of In the Mood for Love fame is a big fan of Alphaville.
Here’s links to both films on Netflix:
La Haine on Netflix.
French director Mathieu Kassovitz traces a fateful day in the lives of alienated ghetto youths Vinz (Vincent Cassel), Saïd (Saïd Taghmaoui) and Hubert (Hubert Koundé) — a Jew, an Arab and an African, respectively — who are grappling with the aftermath of unexpected tragedy. When their friend Abdel lies comatose after a police beating, Vinz vows to dispense rough justice, sealing the destiny of all three.
Alphaville on Netflix:
Directed by cinematic legend Jean-Luc Godard, this mesmerizing sci-fi noir centers on secret agent Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) and his mission to destroy Alpha 60, the sentient computer that controls Alphaville by destroying freedom of thought or individuality. Brilliantly realized and crafted, Godard’s 1965 film helped to lay the foundation for future sci-fi classics such as Blade Runner, The Terminator and The Matrix.
Engaged in a recent conversation about the difference between art and design I decided to try and figure out how I can express this in simple terms.
To me, design is the satisfaction of both a need and a desire, simultaneously. It’s this magical crossing of wires that makes us swoon at the creative solution to a common problem that we never imagined existed. And it’s the “need” in the equation that I think separates design from art, it’s pragmatic, at least in essence.
To implement this “design” thinking, it’s this easy: Identify a need or a desire, and work back form there. Find a need, create a desire. Fine a desire, create a need.
The companies driven by design thinking all do this. Especially highly desirable brands. For example…
Porsche 911 Turbo:
A desire that becomes a need.
Also a need that becomes a desire.
One must get from A to B.
Omega Speedmaster:
A need that becomes a desire.
One must tell time.
Mast Brothers Chocolate:
A desire that becomes a need.
Once you set the bar high it stays there.
