Small Surfaces

Fast Company is surfing the increasingly crowded simplicity wave.
“In the past, he says, adding features usually meant adding costs. Put a sound system or power windows into a car, and you’ve upped the price, so you better make sure consumers really want what you’re peddling. But in the digital world, that cost-benefit calculus has gone [...]

Slightly off topic, but a wonderful piece on the philosophy of simplicity from wabi-sabi by Leonard Koren.
“The simplicity of wabi-sabi is best described as the state of grace arrived at by a sober, modest, heartfelt intelligence. The main strategy of this intelligence is economy of means. Pare down to the essence, but don’t remove the [...]