In printing, a cliché was a printing plate cast from movable type. This is also called a stereotype. When letters were set one at a time, it made sense to cast a phrase used repeatedly as a single slug of metal. “Cliché” came to mean such a ready-made phrase. The French word “cliché” comes from the sound made when the matrix is dropped into molten metal to make a printing plate.
A peek inside the Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne’s house, courtesy of Fitzsimmons Architects.
The best way to graduate from beginner is to get in way over your head. Nothing makes you better faster.
— Jason Fried
When we are hungry for food, we follow similar patterns as when we are hungry for information. Similar, infantile patterns. At both times, we fall into a mode of dull impatient demand. We want everything immediately with as little interaction as possible…. when we are hungry for knowledge, we inevitably become mentally passive and use all our energies to receive information. Because that’s how our brain works. And that’s why we blindly return to Google search when looking for data.
— Oliver Reichenstein
The Fun Theory
Examples of how designing a fun experience can influence people for the better.
My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That’s heaven. That’s gold and anything else is just a waste of time.
— Cormac McCarthy
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
— Stephen Hawking
