Blog Amphibious
By Adam Richardson - August 15, 2011
The popularity of Apple's design aesthetic and the renewed interest in the work of Dieter Rams of Braun both stem from a common source: they represent calm and certainty in a time of chaos and angst.
Blog Amphibious
By Adam Richardson - August 24, 2010
Blog Amphibious
By Adam Richardson - January 28, 2010
The launch of the iPad yesterday put an exclamation mark on an increasingly obvious point: Apple is the company that has captured the cultural zeitgeist. The massive hype leading up to the event - apparently achieved in a groundswell with very little effort on Apple's part - shows that they really are the "It" company right now.
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By Adam Richardson - December 8, 2009
Does anyone else find it ironic that the people who are creating sites such as Facebook and Twitter, who are shaping so much of our online social experience, are the same people (i.e. computer geeks) who are stereotypically socially inept? Talk about the inmates running the asylum!
Are we being set up for a workable and worthwhile future of social interactions, or are we slowly poisoning our ability to be truly social?
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By Adam Richardson - August 5, 2009
I was just listening to a talk by American novelist Donna Leon, who lives in Venice, Italy, and she said something that made me wonder if Facebook (or MySpace, the place for friends, for that matter) could have originated outside of the US.
