Khoi Vinh's Blog, page 24

Disaster Is Relentless

I’m in San Francisco this week where you can actually smell the ash in the air from the wildfires in…

Obit. Brings Death to Life

This movie still from Vanessa Gould’s masterful documentary “Obit.” is one of the most exquisitely crafted talking-head film compositions I…

Papyrus and How Fonts Get Famous

This sketch from Saturday Night Live making fun of the use of the font Papyrus in the logo for James…

Movies Watched, September 2017

Thanks in part to a ridiculous amount of recent business travel I managed to watch seventeen movies in September, though…

Bumpr for High Sierra

Just a quick note to say we’ve updated Bumpr—the simple but indispensable Mac utility that lets you choose which app…

Unfinish—the Funnest Sketchbook You’ll Ever Use

Here’s a brand new product that I cooked up with my friends over at Baron Fig, makers of exquisitely useful…

Unfinished—the Funnest Sketchbook You’ll Ever Use

Here’s a brand new product that I cooked up with my friends over at Baron Fig, makers of exquisitely useful…

An App to End NYC Parking Woes

There are more important problems in the world than where to park one’s car but in New York City, particularly,…

The End of User-friendly Design

This article at Co. Design by Kelsey Campbell-Dolleghan asks the astute question “What comes after user-friendly design?” It features a…

An Orchestra Plays the Theme Song from the New Star Trek Show

There’s probably only a very small fraction of all the many, many hours of various “Star Trek” shows that I…