David Hoffman

Music also occupies a privileged place in Schopenhauer’s aesthetics, as he believed it to have a special relationship to the will. Where other forms of art are imitations of things perceived in the world, music is a direct copy of the will.

The World as Will and Representation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

15 Oct 2012

quandmaellesinspire:

Stuck Chair /// 2012

Designed by Stefan Tervoort and Pim Snijdoodt

Stuck was created by taking apart all the elements of an archetypical chair and then rearranging them “as if they were simply stuck together” says Tervoort and Snijdoodt.

Stuck received a special mention for its innovative use of material and keen details at the ARC12 Chair design contest initiated by Thonet and Dutch architecture magazine De Architect.

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Designing good software is tricky. First, you must know that I believe “software design” is a collaboration between designers and engineers. There are an incredible number of layers to software: the visuals, the interactions, the performance, the operating system, guidelines, error handling, and so on. And with an application like Path you have a vast server layer too that includes networking, caching, scripts, databases, storage, operating systems, and more. This whole stack, everything in it, sits on top of a single vision that must be aligned to produce a great experience. Coordinating all of this well across many people is definitely one of the harder problems, if not the hardest.

Path co-founder Dustin Mierau: ‘an app without design is like a good story printed on a dot matrix printer’ | The Verge

12 Oct 2012

I need a roommate!

emmyblotnick:

I know it’s maybe a little weird to post this here but Craigslist isn’t cutting it, so: sweet, precious New York tumblr friends, I have until Monday to fill the third bedroom in my apartment for November 1. The place is spacious, it’s right in the Nolita/Little Italy area and my other roommate Molly is a peach.

If you’re interested, message or email me (emmy.blotnick@gmail) and please tell your pals. Let’s do this!

Live with Emmy!

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