A tremendous loss - RIP Bill Moggridge

[drwex]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/10/garden/tributes-to-bill-moggridge-cooper-hewitt-director.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

I just found out Bill Moggridge died this past weekend (fuck cancer). It's just impossible to capture in a few words how important and how visionary he was. I tried, in passing, using some of his words, back in 2006 when I sought to summarize what it is that I do and then he turned up again last year in the film Objectified..

The Times story mis-states that he "invented" the first laptop computer - really what he did was design it. But read the story anyway as some of the world's best designers have a few words to say about him. Limor Fried linked this video on G+, which is short and touches a few more highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWkk9sr_GOs&feature=player_embedded

My entire profession and career would have been different, and maybe not even have existed, without him doing what he did.

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[taura-g.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry Hon.

Kiss

[sweetmmeblue.livejournal.com]

*pebble*

[scherzoid.livejournal.com]

NPR's "All Things Considered" had a nice, though brief, story on him tonight: https://www.npr.org/2012/09/10/160899042/william-moggridge-was-integral-to-laptops-design

This reminds me that I should probably re-up my UPA membership someday, even though current work won't pay for it.

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

I remember being 12 years old and poring through the pages of Byte and InfoWorld: looking at pictures of the GRiD was like the apes in 2001 approaching the monolith, it was so clearly an artifact of the far future.

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