Kalyani Tupkary
@kalyanitupkary
I design objects and interfaces - sometimes real, sometimes fictional.
Kalyani Tupkary
kalyanitupkary.com
A writing example: when I look back in my notes I realize so much of what I write about today I was ruminating about 2-3 years ago. I always knew what I was going to say. I just didn’t have the tools, I didn’t have the maturity, I didn’t have the language or sensitivity to beauty to recognize what that was. So much of what I learned was latent,... See more
Nix • things that take time
To underscore their modernity, filing cabinets were called ‘equipment,’ ‘appliances,’ and ‘machines’ — not furniture.
CRAIG ROBERTSON • The Filing Cabinet
At this point you might be thinking: “It’s just a sketch or a wireframe. I do that all the time anyway.” But it’s a bit different. This is a sketch focused specifically on the content structure of a module, and the hierarchy and grouping of the elements.
Alla Kholmatova • Design Systems (Smashing eBooks)
No one has ever really been able to topple the seven-day week. French revolutionaries tried to institute a ten-day week. Bolsheviks aimed for a five-day week. No one tried harder than Miss Elisabeth Achelis, a New York socialite, heir to the American Hard Rubber Company fortune, and an admirer of Melvil Dewey, he of the Dewey decimal system and
... See moreJill Lepore • How the Week Organizes and Tyrannizes Our Lives
eryone asks Mindy Seu if she’s a designer, and the answer is yes, but it’s also complicated. In the past year, Mindy has given eighty-nine (89) lectures about internet history in eighteen (18) countries, taught forty-nine (49) design students and twelve (12) art students at three (3) universities, watched eight (8) sports documentaries, written... See more
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You make it (somewhat) arbitrary. Divide the world into 24 time zones, and slowly force people — often through colonial might — to abide by one, standard time for an entire wedge. Do it in the name of commerce, of travel, of ease of communication, of ease . Fast-forward a century and a half, and this rational/irrational time is just the way
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