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		<title>Wallpapers, aphorisms &amp; simplicity: aphorimplicity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Davide 'Folletto' Casali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes to relax a bit I open photoshop and I'll sketch some ideas and experiments. Sometimes one of them transforms into a nice wallpaper. Here, a set of three, with three great aphorisms by Gibson, Vignelli and Munari.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was working on some materials in photoshop for a UI I&#8217;m designing and at some point I relaxed a bit working on three RGB wallpapers, 1680&#215;1050. They are designed to be plain simple, with just an aphorism in the middle, written in one of my favorite fonts, <a title="Wikipedia: Univers" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univers">Univers</a>.</p>
<p>The red one is from <a title="Wikipedia: William Gibson" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gibson">Gibson</a>: &#8220;The future is here. It is just not uniformly distributed&#8221;:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://intenseminimalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Aphorimplicity-Red-future.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-239 aligncenter" title="Wallpaper: Aphorimplicity, Red future" src="http://intenseminimalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/wallpaper-Aphorimplicity-Red-future-600.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="375" /></a></p>
<p>The green one is from <a title="Wikipedia: Massimo Vignelli" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massimo_Vignelli">Vignelli</a>: &#8220;If you can design one thing, you can design everything&#8221;:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Aphorimplicity-Green-everything.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-238 aligncenter" title="Wallpaper: Aphorimplicity, Green everything" src="http://intenseminimalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/wallpaper-Aphorimplicity-Green-everything-600.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="375" /></a></p>
<p>The blue one is about <a title="Wikipedia: Bruno Munari" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Munari">Munari</a>: &#8220;Progress means simplifying, not complicating&#8221;:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Aphorimplicity-Blue-simplicity.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-237 aligncenter" title="Wallpaper: Aphorimplicity, Blue-simplicity" src="http://intenseminimalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/wallpaper-Aphorimplicity-Blue-simplicity-600.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="375" /></a></p>
<p>They&#8217;re licensed under a Creative Common license <a title="Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">by 3.0</a>.</p>
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		<title>If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Davide 'Folletto' Casali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.&#8221; — Blaise Pascal, mathematician and physicist. &#8220;Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.&#8221; — Henry David Thoreau, writer and philosopher. &#8220;If I had more time, I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>&#8220;I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.&#8221;<br />
— <a title="Wikipedia: Blaise Pascal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal">Blaise Pascal</a>, mathematician and physicist.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.&#8221;<br />
— <a title="Wikipedia: Henry David Thoreau" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau">Henry David Thoreau</a>, writer and philosopher.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.&#8221;<br />
— <a title="Wikipedia: Marcus Tullius Cicero" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero">Marcus Tullius Cicero</a>, philosopher and statesman.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.&#8221;<br />
— <a title="Wikipedia: Carl Friedrich Gauss" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss">Carl Friedrich Gauss</a>, mathematician and scientist.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.&#8221;<br />
— <a title="Wikipedia: Friedrich Nietzsche" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche">Friedrich Nietzsche</a>, philosopher.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.&#8221;<br />
— <a title="Wikipedia: Francois Fénelon" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_F%C3%A9nelon">François Fénelon</a>, writer e theologian.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all-disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report&#8230;&#8221;<br />
— <a title="Wikipedia: Woodrow Wilson" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson">Woodrow Wilson</a>, 28th President of the United States.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today.  If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.&#8221;<br />
— <a title="Wikipedia: Mark Twain" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain">Mark Twain</a>, writer.</p></blockquote>
<p>All those aphorisms are very aligned with the mood of this blog, I had to rewrite those here. I&#8217;ll probably use them sooner or later.<br />
(<em>via </em><a title="Dangerous Intersections: More time = shorter letter" href="http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=84"><em>Dangerous Intersections</em></a>)</p>
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