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We Made This
Company blog · wemadethis.co.uk/blogdesignhistory
We Made This is the company blog at wemadethis.co.uk, writing about design and history. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on retro design and skeuomorphism. Its quoted lines, such as letting paper work like paper and screens like screens, and on the analogue process of printing photographs, are what commenters point to.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Welcome to We Made This – a graphic design studio in London, specialising in thoughtful, simple, beautiful and sustainable communication.
What Hacker News says?
"Let paper work like paper and screens like screens." I liked that quote. Having said that, I take the point that skeuomorphs are not exactly destroying people's minds. Another quote I found extremely intresting was this one, from a professional designer's blog "It shows the care and attention paid to the printing of a photographic image, but also shows how the analogue process of printing a photograph shares a lot…
Comment linking /blog/2012/01/shaped-by-war/
on “Retro design is crippling innovation”Submitted Albertus and the Prisoner as a story · 34 points
HN discussionSubmitted Graphic Design History Resources as a story · 1 points
HN discussion