Apple’s 1989 “iPad”

Here’s an article by Tom Dair in Fast Company, discussing a project we worked on at Smart Design for Apple in 1989. It was not called an iPad then, that wouldn’t happen for another 11 years. Our 1989 project was conceptual, Apple was experimenting with the idea. We envisioned two different versions of a tablet computer,...Continue reading

Computex Taipei 2012

The winners of the iF Awards for Design and Innovation at Computex Taipei 2012 were announced last week. Photos and descriptions of the winning products are on the artdesigncafé site. Congratulations to the winning entries, and thanks to the iF Branch Office Taiwan for inviting me to be on the jury. Here’s a video of interviews...Continue reading

Design&Thinking

Here’s a link to Yang Yuhsiu’s documentary, Design&Thinking. Its third screening anywhere took place last Thursday at SVA in Manhattan. A discussion with Allan Chochinov, Bruce Nussbaum, Cameron Tonkinwise, Alice Twemlow and me, hosted by Paul Pangaro, followed.

Vintage Guitar interview

Happy to be interviewed alongside ZZ Top’ s Billy Gibbons in an article by Michael Dregni in the September issue of Vintage Guitar magazine. The article discusses the early use of guitar effects – specifically, tremolo circuits and devices, which date back to the 1940s. I received the designation “historian” (apparently, for being able to supply...Continue reading

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