John Maeda: simplicity patterns - data visualization
2007/09/21/1126RTFA: http://infosthetics.com/archives/2007/09/john_maed…
a talk of John Maeda at the TED Conference. he talks about paring down to basics, & how he creates clean, elegant art, websites & web tools. in his book Laws of Simplicity, he offers 10 rules and 3 keys for simple living and working. in this talk, he boils it down to 1 simply delightful way to be.
twofer - Info Aesthetics is a really cool blog. Also, this video is kindof cool.