Why Instagram Is So Popular: Quality, Audience, & Constraints
More weight and significance is placed on each image, just because you have to consider it, at least for a split second, in your feed. Instagram forces you to focus.
Steve Jobs at Home in 1982
“This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that’s what I had.” —Steve Jobs
“The more technology becomes complicated inside, the more it has to be simple outside.”
Derrick de Kerckhove—professor, author and expert in the intersection of culture and technology
“The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.”
Igor Stravinsky
This quote summarizes one of the many things I love about the Tumblr platform. When designing a theme for Tumblr the simplicity of the Tumblr feature set provides an excellent constraint that helps us (Style Hatch) focus on “precision of execution”.
Via Jonathan Snook’s presentation “The Future of Cross-Platform Front-End Development” at FOWD NYC.
5 Branding Commandments for the Post-Crash Economy
Balance After the Storm
Today consumers are looking for simplicity, transparency, responsibility, sustainability, and affordability.
Consumers are moving away from the behaviors that brought us to where we are today— instant gratification, overindulgence, selfishness and greed. […] Consumers want to find brands that can help them achieve balance.
Simplified Look - NFL on Fox
Michael Cina and Michael Young presented Fox Sports with a new on-air package for NFL on Fox that greatly simplifies the current over the top bevel-fest that all networks use. Fox was looking for a simplified approach that improved legibility and would help them stand out as all the other networks are just borrowing each other’s style. This would be an incredible step forward, and hopefully we will be seeing something in this direction in the fall.
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Via Behance
“Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.”
Winston Churchill
via Surfstation
via Surfstation
9h - Nainawasu Hotel
Stripping the concept of a hotel down to it’s simplest form 9h (nine hours) offers a futuristic capsule to sleep in, showers, and space to rest. 1h (shower) + 7h (sleep) + 1h (rest) = 9h. The hotel and concept was created by Design Studio S in Tokyo, Japan.
“Our opportunity, as designers, is to learn how to handle the complexity, rather than shy away from it, and to realize that the big art of design is to make complicated things simple.”
Tim Parsey
“Our opportunity, as designers, is to learn how to handle the complexity, rather than shy away from it, and to realize that the big art of design is to make complicated things simple.”
Tim Parsey
