Modula

Illus­tra­tion for the essay “Mar­ket­ing is not a depart­ment” from Rework, the new busi­ness book from 37signals. Illus­tra­tion by Mike Rohde.

All 88 Illus­tra­tions are assembled in a Flickr Set. Nice move.

Alex Giron put together a design quotes dis­play sys­tem that can be used as a screensaver.

http://mnmlist.com/

• It’s a site by Leo Babauta of Zen Habits.
• It’s about min­im­al­ism, and why it’s import­ant today.
• It’s about stuff, and how it has come to over­whelm us.
• It’s about dis­trac­tions and com­mit­ments and a nev­erend­ing task list.
• It’s about the cul­ture of more, of big­ger, of consumption.
• It’s about how less is the answer.

It’s an eye opener.

The NY Times has an inter­est­ing report on the iGen­er­a­tion, born in the ‘90s and this dec­ade, com­par­ing them to the Net Gen­er­a­tion, born in the 1980s.

“People two, three or four years apart are hav­ing com­pletely dif­fer­ent exper­i­ences with tech­no­logy,” said Lee Rainie, dir­ector of the Pew Research Center’s Inter­net and Amer­ican Life Pro­ject. “Col­lege stu­dents scratch their heads at what their high school sib­lings are doing, and they scratch their heads at their younger sib­lings. It has sped up gen­er­a­tional dif­fer­ences.”
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Now in their 20s, those in the Net Gen­er­a­tion, accord­ing to Dr. Rosen, spend two hours a day talk­ing on the phone and still use e-mail fre­quently. The iGen­er­a­tion — con­ceiv­ably their younger sib­lings — spends con­sid­er­ably more time tex­ting than talk­ing on the phone, pays less atten­tion to tele­vi­sion than the older group and tends to com­mu­nic­ate more over instant-messenger net­works. Dr. Rosen said that the new­est gen­er­a­tions, unlike their older peers, will expect an instant response from every­one they com­mu­nic­ate with, and won’t have the patience for any­thing less.