Filed under “paper”

The medium is the method

Jeff Hawkins, founder of Palm Computing, from Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge: I think paper is just this wonderful medium; it’s been honed for a thousand years. It’s really great! To try to do what you do with paper, with just drawing—line width, sketching, and so on—it’s very hard to get a good experience. Where [...]

Small Government / Small Paper

The story of the slightly smaller Government-Letter sized paper (from Wikipedia): There is an additional paper size, to which the name “government-letter” was given by the IEEE Printer Working Group: the 8 in × 10½ in (203.2 mm × 266.7 mm) paper that is used in the United States for children’s writing. It was prescribed [...]