I love when the general public finds brilliant solutions to overlooked design problems.

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Cold weather + not wanting to remove gloves + iPhone + sausages = productivity!

Snack sausages make great substitutes for browsing fingers. Something Apple’s design team hadn’t quite anticipated. Details here.

And
You too can be productive! Snag some Slim Jims for your iPhone  . . .  here.

Found via Kottke

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I miss these icons. Susan Kare developed them – and the standard city-named fonts – for the original Apple Macintosh in the early 1980s.

I particularly like the alert message guy in the right corner – a playful bitmapped take that has a similar feel as Oskar Schlemmer’s 1921 bauhaus icon.

My grungy Alta California font was inspired by Kare’s original San Francisco font; which, unfortunately hasn’t been available on a Macintosh for many years. I have a great respect for her ability to convey so many many different letters within a small 72 dpi black and white space. Unfortunately – thru gratuitous use – San Francisco did sort of become the Comic Sans of its day. Sort of.

Check out Kare’s online store for some fantastic tees and notecards. Rad digital art from a simpler era. An era that didn’t need gradients and drop shadows in order to dazzle.

And drop by the Japan-based Vintage Mac Museum to see some of Kare’s original icons in action.

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Also, check out my other post about Braun and Apple.

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‘I was warned, ‘Once you go Mac, you won’t go back’  . . .  
They were right, whoever it was.’ – Natasha Newton, visual artist

Enjoying my new iMac. Heaps faster than my old machine.

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Great article at Gizmodo: 1960s Braun Products Hold the Secrets to Apple’s Future.

Found via twitter.com/undrln

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