I bought a decaffeinated coffee table, you can’t even see a difference.

Author Unknown (via coffeechat)

wrappedcherry: My birthday is National Coffee Day? Free coffee for everyone!

zero1infinity: Wohow… on calories frappucciono > pizza

brilliantcrank: Caffé

overheard at b&n cafe

girl 1: what’s the great gatsby about?
girl 2: i dunno.
girl 1: i think i was supposed to read it, but i never did. looks interesting.
girl 2: go tell it on the mountain? what’s that about?
girl 1: i dunno.

(via brouillon)

some day, i’m going to grow up & look like this hipster… (via lteagarden)

paperbackgirl: look at what came in the mail; magic molly’s troubleshooting. you can buy your copy here.

http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/378333170/tumblr_kwpnpfSwOd1qzz5rt&color=FFFFFF

germanheit:

Wie trinkst du deinen Kaffee? How do you like your coffee?

– schwarz (black)

– mit Milch (with milk)

– mit Zucker (with sugar)

– mit Süßstoff (with sweetener)

Ich trinke meinen Kaffee gerne schwarz mit Süßstoff und manchmal auch mit Milch. Mmmh. Lecker.

(I like to drink my coffee black with sweetener and sometimes with milk, too. Mmmh. Yummy.)

yama-bato:

Wharton Esherick

Two Friends, 1923 

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yama-bato:

Wharton Esherick

A Bright Night, 1925 

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(via designinfo)

Comic Books On The iPad

brocatus:
1. The web is transitioning from mere interactivity to a more dynamic, real-time web where read-write functions are heading towards balanced synchronicity. The real-time web, as I have argued in the past, is the next logical step in the Internet’s evolution. 2. The complete disaggregation of the web in parallel with the slow decline of the destination web. 3. More and more people are publishing more and more “social objects” and sharing them online. That data deluge is creating a new kind of search opportunity.
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How Internet Content Distribution & Discovery Are Changing

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1. The web is transitioning from mere interactivity to a more dynamic, real-time web where read-write functions are heading towards balanced synchronicity. The real-time web, as I have argued in the past, is the next logical step in the Internet’s evolution. 2. The complete disaggregation of the web in parallel with the slow decline of the destination web. 3. More and more people are publishing more and more “social objects” and sharing them online. That data deluge is creating a new kind of search opportunity.
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The Grammys = the old guard / old media propping up their puppets trying to convince the outside world (and each other) they’re relevant.

Trent Reznor (via)

Designers should be arbiters of the truth: They should be the kind of people who stand up and tell it like it is, and that usually calls for courage.

Kevin Mattice (via clear war)

Es gehört oft mehr Mut dazu seine Meinung zu ändern, als ihr treu zu bleiben.

(Very often you need more courage to change your opinion than to stick to it.)

Friedrich Hebbel (via germanheit)

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Ray Bradbury (via artpixie) (via atomicblonde) (via oneay) (via ilovereadingandwriting)

moleskinelovers: quoteskine: If at first you don’t succeed

iPad is an incredible opportunity for developers to re-imagine every single category of desktop and web software there is. Seriously, if you’re a developer and you’re not thinking about how your app could work better on the iPad and its descendants, you deserve to get left behind.

Joe Hewitt on the iPad (via designinfo)

What are the top ten books you believe designers should read?

Earlier this week we did a post on a printed piece created by British design firm Spin that details the top 10 books from 50 major figures in graphic design.We sorted through the 500 listed books and found that there were 14 books that appeared in almost every list.

Here’s the list in no particular order:
01. A Designer’s Art Paul Rand
02. Typographie Emil Ruder
03. Mode en Module Wim Crouwel
04. A History of Graphic Design Phillip Meggs
05. Jan Tschichold: Typographer Ruari McLean
06. Design as Art Bruno Mari
07. 8vo: On the Outside Mark Holt
08. Tibor Kalman: Perverse Optimist Peter Hall
09. Weingart: My Way to Typography Wolfgang Weingart
10. Designed Peter Saville
11. How to be a graphic designer with…Adrian Shaughnessy
12. The Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell
13. Modern Typography: An Essay in Critical… Robin Kinross
14. Envisioning Information Edward Tufte

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NOTES:
1) Liz, “Follow up: Spin asks: What are the top ten books you believe designers should read?” accessed January 27, 2010, https://liz.tumblr.com/post/352754770/follow-up-spin-asks-what-are-the-top-ten-books
2) Plaid-Creative, accessed January 27, 2010, http://blog.plaid-creative.com/post/346685665/follow-up-spin-asks-what-are-the-top-ten-books-you (page no longer available, Tumblr account deactivated)

If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you.

Natalie Goldberg (via ilovereadingandwriting)