Archive for April, 2012
Benches of Sullivan st
NYC is big and unique enough that it’s hard for me to say there’s one city street that is my favourite. I really like walking down Elizabeth early on a …
Diehards Type Test
Over at Gesture Theory we’re testing out a couple fonts for a project. Being someone that really enjoys the craft of typography I thought it was a great opportunity to …
Now that watch batteries are dead
The USB cable is the best thing to happen to watches since the removable strap. I’ve had my ups and downs with the Nike+ GPS watch. Great concept but poorly …
Walmart does not own MUJI*
It started simply enough. I had seen the above tweet which made me laugh but also reminded me of something that a friend had told me back when they were …
Environment for Accidental Opportunities
Coming across the diagram above, the first thing that made me take notice was the idea of trajectory of accident opportunity. I immediately read it as something positive. Basically I …
Design-fiction
WIRED: An Essay on the New Aesthetic By Bruce Sterling So the New Aesthetic is really a design-fiction, it’s a postulated creative position. By metaphorically pretending that machines are our …
First time experiences and cleaning up sound with Mac OS X
The only thing better as a designer than seeing someone use the thing that a designer designed is going through a frustrating first time experience. It offers the opportunity to …
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DesignNotes is published in NYC by Michael Surtees. Michael tries to explore people's daily experiences and observations with design. Recently he shifted from being the Principal and Creative Director of Gesture Theory to designing products at Dataminr. He can be reached at michael at michaelsurtees.com 
