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Phaidon publishes a thorough monograph on Dieter Rams, with a foreword from famed Apple designer, Jonny Ive.

“Dieter Rams is one of the most influential product designers of the twentieth century. Even if you don’t immediately recognize his name, you have almost certainly used one of the radios, clocks, lighters, juicers, shelves or hundreds of other products he designed. He is famous not only for this vast array of well-formed products, but for his remarkably prescient ideas about the correct function of design in the messy, out-of-control world we inhabit today. These ideas are summed up in his ‘ten principles’ of good design: good design is innovative, useful, and aesthetic. Good design should be make a product easily understood. Good design is unobtrusive, honest, durable, thorough, and concerned with the environment. Most of all, good design is as little design as possible.

In that spirit, this monograph is as little book as possible. It is a clear, comprehensive and beautiful presentation of Dieter Rams’ life and his work. It is a must-have book for anyone interested in Rams’ work, his legacy, and his ideas about how to live.”

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Today Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of News Corporation, unveiled The Daily — the industry’s first U.S. national daily news publication created from the ground up for iPad.

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At just sixteen years old, Richard Branson established his first business, a magazine called, Student. 44 years later, the billionaire and purveyor of all things Virgin-al, Branson comes full circle with the launch of Project ($2.99), a “living” constantly-updated magazine developed from the ground up for reading on the iPad as well as iPhones and Android tablets in the near future. Link

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Brenda and Kord Campbell, with iPads, at breakfast. (photo: Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)

I highly recommend this NYTimes Article, which is both interesting and scary: Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price, by Matt Richtel

A very touching story from Philip Toledano, more at Days with my Father.