Minimal Universe

Minimal Universe collect posts from our favorite minimal-related blogs listed on the right.
  • Seth's Blog: Demonstrating strength

    Seth’s Blog: Demonstrating strength:

    zenhabits:

    Excellent.

  • Sparrow: New Email Client for Mac That’s Just Like Tweetie

    Sparrow: New Email Client for Mac That’s Just Like Tweetie:

    Looks interesting. That said, one can achieve a pretty spartan look and feel will a moderate amount of effort in Mail.app.

    (via Julio)

  • A house by Naf Architect & Design. More pictures if you...



    A house by Naf Architect & Design. More pictures if you follow the link by clicking the picture. I love how the empty spaces add to the whole feeling.



  • Hembakat är Bäst

    Swedish design and marketing agency & Bodenfors" href="http://www.fb.se" target="_blank">Forsman & Bodenfors created, as part of IKEA’s kitchen appliance campaign, an unconventional baking book. According to F&B it was “the perfect way to ensure a connection between IKEAS kitchen appliances and one of the best things you can do in a kitchen: baking.”

    Hembakat är Bäst (Homemade is Best) gives you an overview of fantastic traditional Swedish recipes; biscuits, buns and cakes. The design is inspired by high fashion and Japanese minimalism and gives a great overview of the necessary ingredients. Evelina Bratell (styling) and Carl Kleiner (photography) are responsible for the perfect geometric aligned composition of ingredients.

    A piece I would like to add to my collection of (cook-)books. The great news is that the book is available for free! Unfortunately the only place you can get it is the kitchen department of Swedish IKEA stores.

    Hembakat är Bäst
    Hembakat är Bäst
    Hembakat är Bäst
    Hembakat är Bäst
    Hembakat är Bäst
    Hembakat är Bäst

  • On Minimal Gear & Running In the Mountains

    packlite:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goZNN8h6M6E&feature=related

    “The reason I pursue a minimalist ideal is to fully experience a place like this”.

    Submitted by Aaron A. Davis

    Edit: No entirely related to packing light, however the message is there: have a better experience, be more aware by minimizing what you use or carry. In this case the running shoes.

    Thanks Aaron!

    I thought this would be relevant for Minimal as well.

  • The beauty of small | mnmlist.com

    The beauty of small | mnmlist.com:

    Small is often downplayed in this world of “bigger means better”. But small is beautiful, and often better.

  • MacSparky - Blog - Using TextExpander for Markdown Reference Links

    MacSparky - Blog - Using TextExpander for Markdown Reference Links:

    I use Markdown’s reference links. The advantage of using referenced links is that the text is much easier to read. You can also use the same reference more than once. Reference links can be set anywhere in the document. Some folks do it at the end of the paragraph. I do them all at the bottom.

    Great riff on my TextExpander/Markdown screencast. So happy to have spurred others to share theirs.

  • MacSparky - Blog - Using TextExpander for Markdown Reference Links

    MacSparky - Blog - Using TextExpander for Markdown Reference Links:

    I use Markdown’s reference links. The advantage of using referenced links is that the text is much easier to read. You can also use the same reference more than once. Reference links can be set anywhere in the document. Some folks do it at the end of the paragraph. I do them all at the bottom.

    Great riff on my TextExpander/Markdown screencast. So happy to have spurred others to share theirs.

  • "The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend personal God and avoid..."

    “The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism.”

    - Albert Einstein

  • "One of the most dangerous (and evil) things ever injected into the project world is the notion of..."

    “One of the most dangerous (and evil) things ever injected into the project world is the notion of process maturity. Process maturity is for replicable manufacturing contexts. Projects are one-time shots. Replicability is never the primary issue on one-time shots. More evil than good has come from the notion that we should “stick to the methodology.” This is a recipe for non-adaptive death. I’d rather die by commission.”

    - David Schmaltz

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  • John Pawson – Plain Space

    In the past Minimalissimo already showed you some of the great work of John Pawson. Now I would like to inform you about a big exhibition about the overall work of the, by the The New York Times entitled, “The father of modern architectural minimalism”. Pawson, emerged in the 80′s, is known for his rigorous process of reduction, creating designs of simplicity and visual clarity.

    ‘John Pawson – Plain Space’ runs until 30 January 2011 at the Design Museum, London and shows Pawson’s career with big photographs, detailed models and other resources that hint a the reductive process of the British minimalist architect. The models are very nice, and often large; they are build big enough so that cameras can be placed within and used to test out in advance the interplay of light and shadow.

    Plain Space
    Plain space
    John Pawson

  • Notes 2 and the error 500

    Notes 2 and the error 500

  • packlite: Going light with a baby is really a challenge. After...



    packlite:

    Going light with a baby is really a challenge. After 6 months of carrying different load I managed to get it light, to go fast!

    • Pack: Black Diamond Bullet
    • Wipes
    • Change of clothing (in case she poops the one she is wearing)
    • 4 diapers
    • A small changing pad
    • Pacifier
    • Little toy for the car or restaurants

    Simple, light and to the point.



  • I’ve been using iOS 4.x for the past couple of months and...


    Home Screen


    2nd Screen: utilities


    3rd Screen: games

    I’ve been using iOS 4.x for the past couple of months and an iPhone for the past 3 years.

    I love the device: I love the simplicity, easy of use and raw power that it has.

    Today, as I was unpacking some of the stuff from the old apartment (we recently moved) I found my old Nokia 6100 and it reminded me of simpler times.

    I must admit, I do miss the simplicity of old cellphones. Back in the mid and late 90s the cellphones were simpler: you could make a call, add an appointment to a very simple calendar, check the time, send an SMS (text message) and that was it. You could do other things but that was basically it. Then, in the early 2000s more and more features were added to an always connected device (well, not in the US, but everywhere else in the world). The cellphone became a small computer and with it more complexity was added. All that culminated with the iPhone. The iPhone hides the complexity of having an always connected computer with a lot of power and presents an interface that it’s simple to use. Still, the complexity is there: you can add more stuff in the form of apps and content.

    I can’t help it but to long for the simplicity of past days.

    In the pictures posted here you can see my three iPhone screens. The 1st one, the Home Screen, has the default apps from the iPhone plus Simplenote, Instapaper and 1Password. Those apps made it to the home screen because I use them every day. The 2nd screen, the Utilities - as I call it, contains productivity apps, and other utilities that I use some times. With the exception of Skype and Pandora I could delete any of them and still be happy. The 3rd screen, the Games, is just that: Games. I rarely visit this page and the reason I have it is because I travel a lot and sometimes you need to kill boredom (most of the time I sleep, a thing I learned in the military: sleep when you can, where ever you can. I can fall asleep anywhere in any position). Again, I can delete all these apps and still be happy.

    One thing that is increasingly annoying me is exactly that: how easy is to add clutter to an otherwise very well designed device that screams simple. I long for the original iPhone, with no apps: just a phone, a calendar, a music player and a way to browse the web.

    This feeling is greatly increased by the multitask support on iOS 4.x. I don’t like multitasking - usually. I work on one app (both on the phone and computer) most of the time and that helps me get focused on the task at hand. Yes, the iPhone does a great job managing resources for the multitasking (way better than the HTC with Android that my wife has), still I find myself always double-tapping the home button and closing the apps I just opened. It’s rather annoying. Apple: Please add a Disable multitasking setting to the next version of iOS, please?

    So I decided to simplify my iPhone, the same way I simplified my laptop and desktop computers: Delete the apps and files that I don’t use at least every single week. If I need an app for a certain task, install it, back it app, use it and then delete it when not needed anymore.

    My guess is that I will get something very close to the original iPhone but with Simplenote, Intapaper and 1Password added. Essentially the Home Screen. Maybe Skype or 1ThingToday as well since I use them during the week. Let’s see how it goes. I’ll post an update in the next few days.

    Thoughts?










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