Formats Unpacked: The Michelin Guide
There are, of course, many other food guides besides the Michelin. Some are good, some are cobbled together by enthusiastic amateurs, and some are not much more than vehicles for liquor advertising. None of them can match the Michelin recipe of impartiality, scope, professional attention to detail, and accuracy.
Peter Mayle • French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew (Vintage Departures)
The leaflet opened with a lie (the new Moleskines were not “exact reproductions of the old”) then immediately veered toward gibberish, but that didn’t matter. Pound for pound, those seventy-five words proved themselves among the most effective pieces of commercial copywriting of all time, briskly connecting the product’s intangible qualities—useful... See more
Roland Allen • Moleskine Mania: How a Notebook Conquered the Digital Era
With this Survival Guide, I aim to present the big picture quickly, orienting you and inviting you to wander down interesting paths to discover more based on your needs and desires (every hyperlink is intentional, offering additional depth and nuance).
Survival Guide to Building a (Tiny) Digital World ✨
“Brilliant lithography,” the authors of a packaging textbook write, “was essential for selling canned food that was not visible during a purchase based on faith.”
Places Journal
Alex Dobrenko added
The first, and most obvious thing, is that they are visual. If I was going to move a piece on a map then I could point to where it was and where it needed to go. Navigation was visual but that was normal. Except, I realised it wasn’t. When people stopped me in their cars to find their way to the nearest petrol station — this was 2004 and GPS was st... See more
Simon Wardley • Highlights From medium.com
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The Design Philosophy of Great Tables
Author
Rich Iannone and Michael Chow
Published
April 4, 2024
We’ve spent a lot of time thinking about tables. Tables—like plots—are crucial as a last step toward presenting information. There is surprising sophistication and nuance in designing effective tables. Over the past 5,000 years, they’ve evolved from simp... See more
Author
Rich Iannone and Michael Chow
Published
April 4, 2024
We’ve spent a lot of time thinking about tables. Tables—like plots—are crucial as a last step toward presenting information. There is surprising sophistication and nuance in designing effective tables. Over the past 5,000 years, they’ve evolved from simp... See more
Michael Chow • great_tables - The Design Philosophy of Great Tables
Nicolay Gerold added
What makes post-it notes so interesting is the spatial relationship between the notes and their respective context.
julian.digital • A Meta-Layer for Notes
