Viestikapula.org is a specialised webzine about the effects of age and generation in the Finnish business and social context.

We designed and developed Viestikapula.org on top of WordPress as a CMS solution.

Again, we are packing skiing gear and other necessities for a winter holiday trip to Northern Finland. Our basecamp will be a lovely log cabin located very far from the nearest Internet access point.

I can hardly wait.

Alex Giron put together a design quotes display system that can be used as a screensaver.

We designed a new website for Noomus Inc. and developed it on top of WordPress as a CMS solution.

Solar by flight404.

Made with Processing. Audio by Goldfrapp (“Lovely Head” off her first album).

• It’s a site by Leo Babauta of Zen Habits.
• It’s about minimalism, and why it’s important today.
• It’s about stuff, and how it has come to overwhelm us.
• It’s about distractions and commitments and a neverending task list.
• It’s about the culture of more, of bigger, of consumption.
• It’s about how less is the answer.

It’s an eye opener.

Sometimes a little push is needed. Start your day by watching Al Pacino’s great speech in Any Given Sunday.

(via ArcticStartup)

“People two, three or four years apart are having completely different experiences with technology,” said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project. “College students scratch their heads at what their high school siblings are doing, and they scratch their heads at their younger siblings. It has sped up generational differences.”
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Now in their 20s, those in the Net Generation, according to Dr. Rosen, spend two hours a day talking on the phone and still use e-mail frequently. The iGeneration — conceivably their younger siblings — spends considerably more time texting than talking on the phone, pays less attention to television than the older group and tends to communicate more over instant-messenger networks. Dr. Rosen said that the newest generations, unlike their older peers, will expect an instant response from everyone they communicate with, and won’t have the patience for anything less.

“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.”

Gall’s Law is a tongue-in-cheek, rule of thumb from John Gall’s Systemantics: How Systems Really Work and How They Fail.

What if there were no stop signs, and a major corporation was charged with inventing one? They’d brief their agency and let them do it. Sorta. Welcome to corporate creativity, where groupthink and endless revisions help good ideas get executed.

This funny yet painful piece of reality goes out to all our fellow craftsmen.