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John Maeda’s book Simplicity<\/em> arrived the other day. It’s small, so I sat down to read it over breakfast. I hit a brick wall here, on page i (not page one, page eye, in the preface, I guess):<\/p>\n

My early computer art experiments led to the dynamic graphics common on websites today. You know what I’m talking about \u00e2\u20ac\u201d all that stuff flying around on the computer screen while you’re trying to concentrate \u00e2\u20ac\u201d that’s me. I am partially to blame for the unrelenting stream of “eye candy” littering the information landscape. I am sorry, and for a long while I have wished to do something about it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is he really<\/em> taking credit for having created web graphics? Oy vey. Only a designer unable to adjust their ego would make such a remark. Boy. I took a short-term gig at Agency.com around 1996. One thing they used to assert in their pitches is that they invented animated graphics on web sites through server-push. I immediately sputter and choke anytime anyone says they were the first at anything<\/a>. Even if they could prove such through a patent paper trail or a dated notebook, the conceit of being the extra special “one” makes me reach for an antacid.<\/p>\n

I’m selling my copy on Amazon<\/a> if anyone’s interested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Maeda’s book Simplicity<\/em> arrived the other day. It’s small, so I sat down to read it over breakfast. I hit a brick wall here, on page i (not page one, page eye, in the preface, I guess):<\/p>\n

My early computer art experiments led to the dynamic graphics common on websites today. You know what I’m talking about \u00e2\u20ac\u201d all that stuff flying around on the computer screen while you’re trying to concentrate \u00e2\u20ac\u201d that’s me. I am partially to blame for the unrelenting stream of “eye candy” littering the information landscape. I am sorry, and for a long while I have wished to do something about it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is he really<\/em> taking credit for having created web graphics? Oy vey. Only a designer unable to adjust their ego would make such a remark. Boy. I took a short-term gig at Agency.com around 1996. One thing they used to assert in their pitches is that they invented animated graphics on web sites through server-push. I immediately sputter and choke anytime anyone says they were the first at anything<\/a>. Even if they could prove such through a patent paper trail or a dated notebook, the conceit of being the extra special “one” makes me reach for an antacid.<\/p>\n

I’m selling my copy on Amazon<\/a> if anyone’s interested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nSimplicity Brick Wall - Near Future Laboratory<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2006\/09\/17\/old256\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Simplicity Brick Wall - Near Future Laboratory\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"John Maeda's book Simplicity arrived the other day. It's small, so I sat down to read it over breakfast. 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