Log24

(Continued)

From "The Magis way: Notes on the publishing culture,"
by Giampiero Bosoni, at http://www.magisdesign.com/magis-world/ —

See as well "Interweaving" in this journal.

"Design is how it works." — Steve Jobs

Review:

See also the phrase "a dance results" in the original
source and in yesterday's Valentine Dance.

A search tonight for material related to the four-color
decomposition theorem yielded the Wikipedia article
Functional decomposition.

The article, of more philosophical than mathematical
interest, is largely due to one David Fass at Rutgers.

(See the article's revision history for mid-August 2007.)

Fass's interest in function decomposition may or may not
be related to the above-mentioned theorem, which 
originated in the investigation of functions into the
four-element Galois field from a 4×4 square domain.

Some related material involving Fass and 4×4 squares—

A 2003 paper he wrote with Jacob Feldman—

(Click to enlarge.)

"Design is how it works." — Steve Jobs

An assignment for Jobs in the afterlife—

Discuss the Fass-Feldman approach to "categorization under
complexity" in the context of the Wikipedia article's
philosophical remarks on "reductionist tradition."

The Fass-Feldman paper was assigned in an MIT course
for a class on Walpurgisnacht 2003.

"Design is how it works." —Steve Jobs

Website logo—

Screenshot from How Stuff Works—

(Click image for details.)

From "A Device Worthy of a Gothic Novel,"
Chapter XVI of The Club Dumas,
by Arturo Perez-Reverte (1993),
Vintage International, April 1998….
the basis of the 1999 Roman Polanski film
The Ninth Gate —

Aren't you going to give me a document to sign?"
"A document?"
"Yes. It used to be called a pact. Now it would be a contract
with lots of small print, wouldn't it? 'In the event of litigation,
the parties are to submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of…'
That's a funny thing. I wonder which court covers this."

Religion for stoners,^♦ in memory of Horselover Fat

Amazon.com gives the publication date of a condensed
version* of Philip K. Dick's Exegesis  as Nov. 7, 2011.

The publisher gives the publication date as Nov. 8, 2011.

Here, in memory of the author, Philip K. Dick (who sometimes
called himself, in a two-part pun, "Horselover Fat"), is related
material from the above two dates in this  journal—

Merry Xmas.

^♦ See also last night's post and the last words of Steve Jobs.

* Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the publisher, has, deliberately or not, sown confusion
    about whether this is only the first of two volumes.

"We need a Steve Jobs of religion." — Eric Weiner

"Design is how it works." — Steve Jobs

(Continued from earlier posts.)

See the online New York Times  on November 27—

With Blocks, Educators Go Back to Basics

— and related letters, online today—

The Building Blocks of Education

Another back-to-basics illustration—

"Design is how it works."
— Steve Jobs

See also the designer of the above Big  apple—

“I’m fascinated with how past designers
had to come up with ideas
and solve problems using limited resources.”

— Mikey Burton

"Design is how it works." — Steve Jobs, quoted in
 The New York Times Magazine  on St. Andrew's Day, 2003

^.

For some background on this enigmatic equation,
see Geometry of the I Ching.

''Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like,''
says Steve Jobs, Apple's C.E.O. ''People think it's this veneer—
that the designers are handed this box and told, 'Make it look good!'
That's not what we think design is. It's not just what it looks like and feels like.
Design is how it works.''

— "The Guts of a New Machine," by Rob Walker,
New York Times Magazine , Sunday, Nov. 30, 2003

See also, from the day of the above Anything Box  review—
St. Peter's Day, 2011— two Log24 posts—
The Shattered Mind and Rome After Dark.

Related boxes… Cosmic Cube and Design Cube.

"Design is how it works." — Steven Jobs

A comment on the life of Jobs —

Paola Antonelli
Photo Credit: Andrea Ciotti

Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design
at the Museum of Modern Art in New York—

“NeXT was a risk and a beautiful failure."

Related material—

What’s NeXT?

and 2008 posts of

 May 8,  May 9, and May 10.

"Math class is  tough, Barbie."

An article from cnet.com tonight —

For Jobs, design is about more than aesthetics

By: Jay Greene   August 24, 2011 7:21 PM PDT

… The look of the iPhone, defined by its seamless pane of glass, its chrome border, its perfect symmetry, sparked an avalanche of copycat devices that tried to mimic its aesthetic.

Virtually all of them failed. And the reason is that Jobs understood that design wasn't merely about what a product looks like. In a 2003 interview with the New York Times' Rob Walker detailing the genesis of the iPod,  Jobs laid out his vision for product design.

''Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like,'' Jobs told Walker. "People think it's this veneer— that the designers are handed this box and told, 'Make it look good!' That's not what we think design is. It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.''

Related material: Open, Sesame Street  (Aug. 19) continues… Brought to you by the number 24—

"By far the most important structure in design theory is the Steiner system S(5, 8, 24)."

— "Block Designs," by Andries E. Brouwer (Ch. 14 (pp. 693-746) of Handbook of Combinatorics , Vol. I, MIT Press, 1995, edited by Ronald L. Graham, Martin Grötschel, and László Lovász, Section 16 (p. 716))