is a blog about design, technology and culture written by Khoi Vinh, and has been more or less continuously published since December 2000 in New York City. Khoi is currently Principal Designer at Adobe. Previously, Khoi was co-founder and CEO of Mixel (acquired in 2013), Design Director of The New York Times Online, and co-founder of the design studio Behavior, LLC. He is the author of “How They Got There: Interviews with Digital Designers About Their Careers”and “Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design,” and was named one of Fast Company’s “fifty most influential designers in America.” Khoi lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn with his wife and three children.
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Thanks for posting this. I let out an audible “Ohhh” at the last line.
Great article, really miss the days of tactile design – would have loved to study under Vignelli.
Paula Scher tonight @ FIT !!
great post, thanks.
I am reading articles from top to bottom. So I read about Pepesico/Tropicana’s packaging change shortly before this. I can’t help but feel that Mr. Bierut sums up what went wrong for Tropicana.
“Still, I wonder if we haven’t lost something in the process: the deliberation that comes with a slower pace, the attention to detail required when mistakes can’t be undone with the click of a mouse.”