The Design of a Zombie Proofed House

http://all-that-is-interesting.com/post/4956385434/the-first-zombie-proof-house

It’s a pretty cool house.

More Food for Thought

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works. The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it. Most people don’t take the time to do that.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people.

Unfortunately, that’s too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

– Steve Jobs on the nature of design, in a Wired magazine interview, 1996

Patrick Caulfield’s Gravesite

There’s something to be said about designing your own tombstone.

Food for Thought

“You know you’re an adult, not just when you’re able to put the needs of others above your own, but when you’re able to do it without giving a single thought to what they “owe” you in return. You realize that, at some point you weren’t even aware of, you became the tap instead of the bucket. And then you look back and hate your younger self for living under the delusion that somehow a world full of buckets could function.”

– John Cheese, Cracked.com

Why Yes, I am a bit of a Futurist

A most interesting take on the problem of Augmented Reality and its applications in design spaces, specifically architecture. A longer version of this video is available at the Vimeo page for this video.

John Hodgman’s Brief Digression