With Steve Jobs’ passing, a lot of attention has been given to his role in the development of the modern computer industry, but one that is often overlooked is that of Susan Kare. The Public Library of Science has a fantastic writeup on her work of designing Macintosh’s graphic interface elements and the inspiration that led to them. It’s a great Sunday afternoon read.
If you’re unsure of things to be thankful for on this Thanksgiving day in America, watch this 1951 film by the Centron Corporation that will explain what it’s all about. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Since you’re not working today anyway, and are instead counting down the hours until you can head home and prep for Thanksgourging, why not familiarize yourself with these new and novel contraptions called Helicopters. The Army has prepared this video for you to do just that.
Anthology has a holiday gift guide that they asked me to submit ideas for. You can see my selection here, but I’d recommend checking out the entire magazine. It’s really well designed, and has some great gift selections from a bunch of other cool folks.
Jay B gave his Pecha Kucha presentation last Thursday and it went really well. It revolved around the importance of personal work in creating work opportunities in the creative field, and the process by which he learned that with the help of DJ Stout.
The audio is a little funky in the middle, so turn it up and turn on the Close Captions if you want to follow along.
Apparently you've read through all of the note cards. Good work.
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