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fukuoka, japan 福岡
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it's OFFICIAL, @forum_tokyo is back after selling out last year. 🇯🇵
mark the date:
February 17th-19th back in Trunk hotel in Shibuya, Tokyo. this time a slightly bigger venue to fit more attendees.
if you came last year, there's a surprise for you...
...you're a founding member.
and founding members today can secure their tickets before it opens to the public.
clink the link below 👇
tokyodesignforum.com
incredibly stoked to have @theJoshLoh join @forum_tokyo as head of production!!
If you know anything about organizing events, there's a lot that goes on behind the scenes.
Here's a sneak peek of the team rallying together at last year's inaugural @forum_tokyo, told by @NotoriousUSB.
Proud to share that I'll be Head of Production for year two. It's gonna be another great one. Tickets are now available. See you there
🎬 Edited by yours truly
brian benitez retweeted
If you know anything about organizing events, there's a lot that goes on behind the scenes.
Here's a sneak peek of the team rallying together at last year's inaugural @forum_tokyo, told by @NotoriousUSB.
Proud to share that I'll be Head of Production for year two. It's gonna be another great one. Tickets are now available. See you there
🎬 Edited by yours truly
Year two's site is live, with our first 10 speakers 👇
@evilrabbit_ @pablostanley @DanHollick @joshpuckett @vickiheart @LinusEkenstam @floguo @factorzero @philhedayatnia and @DrCapsoul
Feb 17-19, 2027 in Shibuya, Tokyo → tokyodesignforum.com
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TDF Year One was so good! Get your ticket, or at least click the link to peer into the wild mind of the inimmitable @NotoriousUSB
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had too much fun with the @forum_tokyo site this year! 🕺
tokyo design forum is back! feb 17-19, 2027 🗼 hats off to @NotoriousUSB & team for another labour of love
emoji is a japanese word, and isn't based on the word "emotion" at all.
e (絵) = picture
moji (文字) = letter/character
the more you know... 🕺
#OnThisDay in 1997 (29 years ago!), SoftBank (then J-Phone) released the SkyWalker DP-211SW in Japan, the first known mobile phone with an emoji set 📱
90 monochrome emoji (shown below), 12×12 pixels each and including a few future icons 💩
🔗 blog.emojipedia.org/correcti…
ALT A grid of 90 black-and-white pixel-art emoji from SoftBank’s 1997 set. They include musical instruments, sports, animal faces, smileys, a pile of poo, hearts, transport, weather symbols, a phone, a camera and a row of clock faces.
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As we get deeper into the age of AI, the design process has started to feel muddy. We're fixing that.
In Zoah, you build an identity first, and it becomes the foundation your product is built on. Here's a sneak peek. 👀
i haven't shared this before, but my childhood friends are founders of @RollingLoud and asked me to design a Rolling Loud Rolex.
i did the watch face, the bezel and the box, then worked with the factory to get them made.
the pursuit of happiness is a lie.
growing up in the US, it's drilled into you. you're a unique snowflake, so prioritize your happiness, protect it, chase it. i believed that for a long time.
my decisions were driven by what would make me happy.
then i pictured myself on my deathbed, looking back, and asked: if i spend my whole life chasing happiness for myself, will i be happy with how i spent it?
the honest answer was no.
now i think happiness is a byproduct. you don't get it by chasing it. you get it by doing the hard things that suck. duty, honor, responsibility.
life is hard work. it's a struggle. but you enjoy it because you get through it.
pursue the hard thing and happiness gets bestowed on you.
it's something you earn, not something you chase.
we've only got one shot on the leaderboard of life. i'm going to climb and climb and see how far i get.
brian benitez retweeted
AI keeps shrinking design down to a prompt box.
We’re building the other way, with the canvas at the center of everything.
A look behind the scenes with @brdrck & @notorioususb.
i get why ai feels threatening.
your craft, your taste, your opinions, you've spent years developing them. of course it feels personal when it's happening to you.
but take ourselves out of the equation for a second.
for thousands of years we've been thinking about building a machine that could do our work for us. homer wrote about self-moving machines almost 3,000 years ago. aristotle imagined a loom that weaves on its own.
this was always inevitable. it just happened to land on our generation.
and what excites me is that we got to live before.
the machines trained on our work. at some point most of what's online will be ai, but we were here when the web was still all human. we passed the torch. it's an honor.
in my talk at @valiocon i drew the parallels to the last revolution i lived through, mobile. pull to refresh didn't come from apple, @lorenb made it while building tweetie 2.
the hamburger menu didn't come from apple either. designers were exploring what you could do now that you just had your finger.
the patterns for this era come from us too. it's a bigger playground.
i don't get all the pessimism, i can't feel more excited.
