On a purely stylistic level I really dislike the term "enshittification": it's unimaginative, lazy, as ugly as the process it describes (hence, probably, its success). We had way better contenders, such as "crapularity". Things always disappoint…
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I lied
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The Nintendo Switch 2, specifically!
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WTF! Nokia envisioned the Nintendo Switch in 2004!!
Source: nokiadesignarchive.aalto.fi?node=A0088
[#]design #gaming
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The coolest archive just went online: the Nokia Design Archive,* with 722 entries. I swear I'll check them one by one.
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Anna's Archive is offering 10k$ to improve their ISBN book visualization (image attached).* Very curious to see the results!
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Why is #design criticism important? Because it's a counterbalance to design curation, which is an endless celebration of excellence. Criticism, instead, has the freedom and duty to focus on the average, the mediocre, the flawed, the marginal, the evil. There, where the best curators can only see squalor, the best critics are able to find meaning—and even beauty.
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Such tragic news. I never had the chance to meet Nicolas Nova in person, but I followed his work for many years and was always amazed by the breadth of his interests. A huge, irreplaceable loss for the design field and many others. Let's read his books, study his work, cherish his intelligence.
http://www.nicolasnova.net/
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My take for subwaytakes would be: STOP MAKING SLIDES. They are a waste of time, don't make a class or a presentation necessarily more interesting, and prevent the emergence of new ideas. Just talk, while optionally showing images and videos–the browser is the ultimate Powerpoint.
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Everyday interface is: the beating heart of Calibre when you open the software
(now yours!)
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Notable books that Luigi Mangione allegedly wants to read:
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Byung-Chul Han loves to complain about "the digital", but then his books are an assemblage of lukewarm takes good only for social media…
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The first Millennial in history? Walter Benjamin:
"There was nothing to allay the violence with which it pierced me. Powerless, I suffered, seeing that it obliterated my consciousness of time, my firm resolve, my sense of duty. And just as the medium obeys the voice that takes possession of him from beyond the grave, I submitted to the first proposal that came my way through the telephone."
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The latest issue of Other Worlds focuses on Kamala Harris’s campaign, and who better to write about it than Noemi Biasetton? Author of Superstorm: Design and Politics in the Age of Information and a recent guest on Scratching the Surface podcast, Biasetton examines Harris’s viral hype-based campaign, which aimed to engage young voters through meme culture and the “brat” aesthetic. She highlights the strategy’s adaptability and appeal but also warns of potential backlash from forced trends and unconvincing attempts to sway a savvy online audience.
https://buttondown.com/otherworlds/archive/ow-20-the-parable-of-the-coconut-on-kamala/
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Dunning–Kruger User: A user who thinks they're good at computers because they don't know new software exists that does things better.
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In Stuttgart to talk about the "millennial loser's tantrum" with the great @GIFmodel today at the city library, which is beautiful apparently. Come by if you're around!
https://www.merz-akademie.de/en/veranstaltungen/what-design-cant-do/
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I was glad to be invited by Baltan Laboratories to contribute to their Raise Your Voice zine on education, as it gave me the perfect opportunity to voice something I've wanted to say for a long time: design schools (and schools in general) must be leisurely environments. Otherwise, they're factories. If a timer is needed during teaching hours, something is fundamentally wrong with your institution.
The zine is already out and will be soon distributed, but you can already read my contribution here: https://silviolorusso.com/publication/a-school-knows-no-stopwatch/
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How do you explain that, unlike during the previous Twitter exodus, this time most people seem to be going straight to BlueSky mainly ignoring Mastodon?
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Just remembered that 12 years ago I made an unofficial video for Enya's Watermark song and it's exactly what you imagine it to be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK6pEHAZnyE
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"When everything is weird, nothing truly is." Before that word was used to label the newly elected president, I gave a talk at KISD in Cologne about #AI, deep kitsch, and normie weird.
Video: https://vimeo.com/1011406899
Essay: https://rrrreflect.org/special-issue-1/deep-dreaming-willy-wonka-ai-weird-as-the-new-kitsch
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