In addition to all of the “good goods” that they produced, the Eameses were prolific as educators, making many important contributions to the world of ideas.
Underlying all of their work is the principle that design should not be an act of creative self-expression but rather a process of problem solving.
Great article on brainpickings about Charles and Ray Eames. Now i want to read “an eames anthology” even more.
A funny idea to use the steep streets of San Francisco to create a gravity illusion effect.
If you read one thing today, make it this text by Isaac Asimov on Creativity. It’s a short essay about his thoughts on what we humans need to come up with creative ideas.
This quote i liked particularly because it resembles something i thought about a lot lately.
Probably more inhibiting than anything else is a feeling of responsibility. The great ideas of the ages have come from people who weren’t paid to have great ideas, but were paid to be teachers or patent clerks or petty officials, or were not paid at all. The great ideas came as side issues.
To feel guilty because one has not earned one’s salary because one has not had a great idea is the surest way, it seems to me, of making it certain that no great idea will come in the next time either.
What would it be like if we all would have a basic income that is not coupled to any work at all? And the “work” we would still do was unpaid for? Would we really fail as a society because no one would want to work anymore, as some might think? Would no one ever clean a toilet again? Or would we be able to come up with much better and more creative ideas and solve problems in ways we would never even possibly imagine otherwise? I’m pretty certain the latter is more likely to be true.
But thats for another post. The text by Asimov has so many quotable parts, so better go ahead and read it in full.
Love this.
Awesome lettering skills.
A nice cover version of Radiohead’s awesome song “Creep”. Found via ma.tt.
Birdly is a pretty cool project which intends to simulate flying like a bird in a full body simulator. It uses an Oculus Rift, a moving platform, wind, tactile feedback and even different smells to create a truly virtual reality experience.
I would love to try this thing out for a fly once and there could even be a chance given that it’s developed here in Zurich at the University of the Arts.
“Go straight off the wall” said his dad and Dominic does just that. The film follows Dominic Wilcox, an artist / inventor / designer, on his quest for new ideas….Transforming the mundane and ordinary into something surprising, wondrous and strangely thought provoking.
Muse posted a first teaser track from their new album “Drones” on YouTube some days ago. The track not exactly blew my mind, but im looking forward to the album, which should be released in June.