The Hardest Part of Good Design

Design extraordinaire Philippe Starck explains thus:

"The simpler an object is, the harder it is to make it: decoration always conceals something else."

[From the book 'Starck' by Conway Lloyd Morgan]

Simplicity Defined

John Maeda defines simplicity thus in his book 'The Laws of Simplicity'. A book worth checking out if you are fundamentally interested in simplifying life.

Above image via Presentation Zen.

Welcome to the Simple Life

An attempt to understand the complexity of everyday life in simplified terms. Inspired by the following (not in any particular order)...
A.) John Maeda and his Simplicity Consortium at the MIT MediaLab
B.) The frustration of dealing with the cable set-top box remote control for the last seven years
C.) The Apple iPod
D.) The above pictured board that I came across in a souvenir shop in an Amish village in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
E.) The (simple) pencil sharpener
F.) The (eternal) wheel
H.) More to come. But for now let's keep it at half a dozen and not complicate life :-)