Posts Tagged: LoFi

I stumbled across an interesting website this week: First Today, Then Tomorrow, written by professional writer Randy Murray. I’m still perusing the articles, but I was taken by three articles entitled Three Rules of Proper Notebook Management: What To Write In Your Notebook The Best Notebook To Use What To Do With Filled Notebooks With so… Continue Reading ›

I love Field Notes, and I love Draplin, and this is just wonderful. I have a thing for early 20th century American graphic design; I love the bold flat colours, the typography with it’s mix of slab and script typefaces, and the wonderfully simple yet incredibly strong logos. The Field Notes Memo Archive is an… Continue Reading ›

I love this image that I just came across it combines my love of old technology in this case typewriters with some of my favourite authors. There is one striking omission for me; that of my favourite author William Gibson who wrote the cyberpunk classic Neuromancer on an manual typer writer of 1930s vintage. Of… Continue Reading ›

These ceramic speakers are just beautiful. Designed by Joey Roth and created using simple materials including cork, aluminium, cast iron and of course ceramic they are wonderfully minimal and stylish. Whilst their form is beautiful their function is of equal importance: Typical speakers are designed to play even the most compressed or poorly recorded track. They… Continue Reading ›

I love my iPhone, I really do, but every now and then I find myself hankering for something simpler, smaller, and well, just different. I think the new Sony Ericsson Xperia Pureness could stop that hankering. The display is monochrome (gasp) but also transparent, as demonstrated in this video: The keyboard is invisible until activated,… Continue Reading ›

You may have seen the news that Google has added a tasks application to its Gmail email service. Well, the even better news is that since they recently added Google Labs to Google Apps email, I get to play with it also. I’ve tried a number of task apps over the years and not found… Continue Reading ›