all the good things

Everywhere in the world, amazing and wonderful things continue to unfold.

I appreciate the sublime
and things that are remarkable, smart, inventive or just beautiful. I also like to keep track of process and things that inspire. I also have a running set of helpful resources for UX design.

This site will give you a constant feed of amazing things in fields as varied as interaction design, web design, product design, business innovation, fine art, the humanities, and science.

My name's Jaireh. By day, I'm a UX designer for a big telecom company. I have also been: a designer of many things like this and this. Welcome to my internet Wunderkammer.

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Apr
12th

Sun

Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who’s in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It’s like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven’t seen in a long time

— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the shore

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Apr
11th

Sat

“When the artists Andre and Lee married, Andre set out to make a painting to show his love for Lee. He worked on the same canvas their entire lives, never feeling it was done.

At the end of his days, Andre grew sad before the unifinished work.

“I did not love you enough,” he said.

“Not true,” Lee replied, presenting her husband with a box filled with photos of his canvas.

“I’ve been taking these , one a week,” she said, “for the past forty years.”—

Paul Madonna, all over coffee

And if you’re not buying the book, here is an online archive of his work.

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Feb
13th

Fri

beautifully subtle illustration

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Jan
30th

Fri

maborosi was such a sad and beautiful movie

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Jan
21st

Wed

Timothy Saccenti really understands pattern and manipulating ephermeral things like light, smoke, and dust particles

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Beautiful dappled light in the illustrations of British firm, I love dust.
Can buy the prints here.

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Jan
16th

Fri

Beautiful Aurora Borealis

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Jan
11th

Sun

Beautiful video game graphics for both games: Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, brainchild of video game designer Fumito Ueda.

“His games have achieved popular cult status and are distinguished by a severe economy of plot and scenario, illustrated with overexposed, desaturated light and sparse dialogue. This approach, which he describes as “design by subtraction,” lends his work an existential tone.” That is very cool.

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Jan
3rd

Sat

Herzog’s La Soufriere epitomizes the sublime. Part 2 and Part 3 here.

In this short film Herzog films the volcanic island where all but a few straglers, miscreants, and abandoned pets have fled to escape the volcano’s deathly emissions. Its a startling portrait of nostalgia and gives us a unique “calm before the storm” view of things before they ultimately meet their demise.

the conversation with a homeless man who doesn’t seem to care at all is very intriguing.

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Takeshi Amano’s aquascapes are breathtaking.

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