A tremendous loss - RIP Bill Moggridge
Sep. 10th, 2012 03:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drwexhttp://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.
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.
