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Microsoft is a company run by engineers. Engineers love science fiction, right? (ok, I do too)
So instead of focusing on the technology issues of today they make movies about possible tomorrows.
It’s fun, but it doesn’t pay the bills.
No, that ugly, bloated non-future-y Office and Windows pay the bills.
* see also Daring Fireball, here, here and here.

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We as designers strive for our solutions to be elegant, so what’s interesting about this story is how it seems to suggest that the most elegant solution, in certain situations, might not be creating anything new at all. Lightness is to be found in substitution or recomposing, not in rote addition.

• Frank Chimero

A new documentary on Charles and Ray Eames is already making it’s way around the States.

via kottke

Simon Garfield was recently interviewed on the CBC about his new book Just My Type: A Book about Fonts.
Conversations about Typography have usually lurked in the shadows. This is the first interview I have come across that takes the talk into the mainstream.
Here is the interview:

or
Here