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By Adam Richardson - August 25, 2011
After a crazy couple of weeks in the consumer electronics/smartphone/computer/telecom mega-industry (it's really all one now), another bombshell arrived yesterday with the news that Steve Jobs has resigned as CEO and is taking on role of chairman of the board. In reality, it probably means he will be in an advising capacity not unlike what he's probably been doing for the last year while on medical leave. But still, a shock to the system.
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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.
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By Adam Richardson - March 3, 2011
Thirty years ago, on March 5, 1981, in England, a small black box was unleashed onto the world that almost single-handidly created the home computer revolution in the UK: The Sinclair ZX81. To a teenage boy with no particular interest in computers to that point, it was like being handed my own spacecraft, a sleek slab of the future.
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By Adam Richardson - July 27, 2010
Remember just a few years ago when Apple used to be lambasted for only shipping a one-button mouse, and there was constant speculation as to why the company stubbornly refused to offer a multi-button mouse? The line was always that more buttons would confuse people, even though PC users seemed to do just fine with them. Since the first Mighty Mouse, Apple's mice have added more complexity, but still, there's something about one-button products that Apple really likes — both the iPhone and iPad only have one button on the front surface. At the very least, Apple likes to minimize as much as possible the quantity of buttons on its products, sometimes effectively, other times with frustrating results.
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By Adam Richardson - June 28, 2010
Whatever you may think about Apple there is no denying that they continue to set new standards for craft. Craft? Yes, that seemingly old-fashioned word that many confine to quilting, scrap-booking and other pursuits often disparagingly categorized as women's activities. My alma mater, the California College of the Arts, dropped the word craft from its name years ago, feeling that it was dragging the image of the school down. But craft as a concept has made something of a comeback in recent years, and no-one in the mass-production realm is doing it better than Apple.
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By Adam Richardson - December 15, 2009
ID Magazine, the venerable standard of industrial design in the US, is closing after 55 years as a print publication. It will continue doing its design annual, but only online.
I've certainly had my issues with ID Magazine, but still it's sad to see it go after not being able to adapt to the world we're in now.
From the press release:
December 15, 2009
To Readers, Advertisers and Friends of I.D. Magazine:
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By Adam Richardson - August 21, 2008
