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This is by Lapka co-founder Vadik Marmeladov. https://twitter.com/vadikmarmeladov/status/851475018332622848 https://twitter.com/vadikmarmeladov/status/85147501

by allenz 10y ago

This is by Lapka co-founder Vadik Marmeladov. https://twitter.com/vadikmarmeladov/status/851475018332622848 https://twitter.com/vadikmarmeladov/status/85147501833262284... In 2013, before Lapka was acquired: "He was dressed head-to-toe in tailored black garments... he confessed to me that one day, if his company ever got big, every employee would dress this way. “That’s the dream, anyway,” he said with a self-effacing laugh." https://www.fastcodesign.com/3050743/why-airbnb-just-bought-a-quirky-russian-industrial-design-firm https://www.fastcodesign.com/3050743/why-airbnb-just-bought-... See also his personal site http://www.vadikmarmeladov.com/ http://www.vadikmarmeladov.com/ which showcases similar design principles and includes "our Codes of Practice": 1. Wear the uniform 2. Think long term (like 30 years from now) 3. Build stories and languages, not things 4. Create your own universe 8. Do not build utilitarian products. However, use them as a medium to express yourself 20. Move to LA 23. Use only one font, just a few colors, and just a few shapes 28. Remind yourself daily: you and everyone you know will die 30. We are 2046 kids

state 10y ago
What I love about Vadik is (what I see on his site) as his second principle: Think long term (like 30 years from now) I think that's the thing that always comes through in the spirit of his work. Not that the things he makes are always designed to survive, but they're designed for a vision of the future.
microcolonel 10y ago
Too bad it sounds a bit nihilist-marxist (a hundred million dead kind of bad ideas), if it were not associated with that it would be a cool thing.
- beaconstudios 10y ago
  nihilism (or more broadly, existentialism) is not directly tied to marxism. Both are materialist philosophies, but taking one does not require that you take the other. "Fuck the corporations" is also a pretty common attitude on the right as well as the left.
  - humanrebar 10y ago
    The right distrusts both public (government) and private (monopolistic corporate) bureaucracies as oppressive. The left gives more of a pass to government bureaucracies because they have faith that they can be democratically checked.
    - beaconstudios 10y ago
      a faith that seems rather misplaced given historical context.
    - twoquestions 10y ago
      Careful with that wide brush of yours, there's a whole multidimensional universe of political alignments out there that are obscured by the American 'Left' and 'Right'.
grenoire 10y ago
2016 + 30 = 2046. Bwoo-shazam!
gerikson 10y ago
9. Do not exploit introverts — doesn't work long term. Learn to be an introvert yourself

by allenz 10y ago

state 10y ago

What I love about Vadik is (what I see on his site) as his second principle: Think long term (like 30 years from now) I think that's the thing that always comes through in the spirit of his work. Not that the things he makes are always designed to survive, but they're designed for a vision of the future.

microcolonel 10y ago

Too bad it sounds a bit nihilist-marxist (a hundred million dead kind of bad ideas), if it were not associated with that it would be a cool thing.

beaconstudios 10y ago
nihilism (or more broadly, existentialism) is not directly tied to marxism. Both are materialist philosophies, but taking one does not require that you take the other. "Fuck the corporations" is also a pretty common attitude on the right as well as the left.
- humanrebar 10y ago
  The right distrusts both public (government) and private (monopolistic corporate) bureaucracies as oppressive. The left gives more of a pass to government bureaucracies because they have faith that they can be democratically checked.
  - beaconstudios 10y ago
    a faith that seems rather misplaced given historical context.
  - twoquestions 10y ago
    Careful with that wide brush of yours, there's a whole multidimensional universe of political alignments out there that are obscured by the American 'Left' and 'Right'.

grenoire 10y ago

2016 + 30 = 2046. Bwoo-shazam!

gerikson 10y ago

9. Do not exploit introverts — doesn't work long term. Learn to be an introvert yourself