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Does cheap have to suck?

by admin on October 21, 2010


Like every­body else, I like a good deal. And like every­body else, or at least every­body I know, I no longer have much use for a land­line. In fact, I wouldn’t even have a land­line if it weren’t because of my (…)

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Examples of bad design

by admin on September 23, 2010


I have always appre­ci­ated good design, even before I was aware of what design was. Growing up, I enjoyed beau­ti­ful objects so much that I’d often draw them on a note­book. And although I didn’t know yet that beau­ti­ful doesn’t always equate good design, at least I had the good sense, even back then, to won­der what pur­pose a cer­tain gad­get or add-on accomplished.

“Daddy,” I’d ask my weary father, “why does Mazinger have yel­low horns stick­ing out of his ears?”



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