Apple OS X Lion design details breaking my heart: Faux leather, torn paper, topstitching. Too much Pottery Barn, not enough Dieter Rams.

So Apple #iOS5 replaced the beautiful, black @nytimes monogram icon with a cheap-looking, wood veneer bookshelf called Newsstand. Why?

I don't care about the value of your Apple stock. I care about design.

Town planning. Building. Landscape design. Gardening. Microeconomics. Smurfs' Village. #iPhone #iPad #Addiction

Microsoft gets Penn? @rga: Largest Apple Store yet to open in Grand Central Station. http://bit.ly/glK0wo #fb

"When the novel is dead, then the technological society will be totally upon us." (Godard, 1968) http://nyr.kr/fmla7e @tnyfrontrow #ebooks

Mr. Vignelli on the MTA: "You give them steak, they make hamburger." @aigany #unimark #fb

Mike Essl making me cry: For the love of my life @victoriamia. http://miawillyoumarry.me (via @essl) #fb

“Can you make it a little bit shittier?” The design of @dfarecords logo. #DailyNote #RBMA  http://win.gs/10jnKN8  pic.twitter.com/mrqPEKMEmj

Give me something real.

Classic @wiedenkennedy. MT @dens: This place reminds me of that ESPN Y2K ad: "Follow me! Follow me to freedom!" (@ Whole Foods) #wknyc

What does art imply? "Design implies for most people the beautiful things an affluent society makes for itself." @kimmelman in @nytimes

How many art world luminaries does it take to authenticate a Basquiat? I hope Phil Frost is laughing about this. http://t.co/vLmkauhx

Mercifully Mail 5.0 appears to be free from blotters, desk drawers, parchment, quills and inkpots. #Apple #Lion #design

@verasacchetti's passionate look at the shortcomings of social design is intelligent and happily free of cynicism. #dcrit2011

Beautiful Spring day in New York with every single person in advertising, media and technology out of town. All alone in Soho. #NXNE

@sfj Congrats! Excited to see @nytimes mention of Dolores—a band that inspired a font, a font that defined a record label. #MoWax #H_FJ

Annette Michelson equates Film Socialisme to "fruitful catastrophe" of late Beethoven citing Updike's review of Said's "On Late Style" #nyff

@h_fj @essl That's Biz Markie doing Bennie & The Jets, not @beastieboys. Flexi came with Issue 2 of Grand Royal & is on Sounds of Silence.

Thanks Fred! RT Looking fwd to reading @dcrit class- & deskmate @lauraforde's piece on Herb Lubalin in @eyemagazine 75 /via @freduarte