None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in...
The only note I’ve ever gotten on a commercial is that I said ice axes were for ice, when they were really dry tooling or vice versa. I heard from the engineer at Black Diamond who had invented them. He was like, “Hey, no big deal, but those are for dry tooling or whatever.”...
When senior leaders at toymaker Lego first learned that adults were buying large quantities of their plastic bricks and getting together to build Lego creations of their own, “they thought it was very strange,” says Smith-Meyer. “Before the late 1990s, the company didn’t think their ...