is a blog about design, technology and culture written by Khoi Vinh, and has been more or less continuously published since December 2000 in New York City. Khoi is currently Principal Designer at Adobe. Previously, Khoi was co-founder and CEO of Mixel (acquired in 2013), Design Director of The New York Times Online, and co-founder of the design studio Behavior, LLC. He is the author of “How They Got There: Interviews with Digital Designers About Their Careers”and “Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design,” and was named one of Fast Company’s “fifty most influential designers in America.” Khoi lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn with his wife and three children.
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They should correct the grammar in the book title. They expect intelligent, literate people to buy this? Never.
Very cool, but honestly, I got these same books when I was a kid. And I’m 44. I can’t say what the cost comparison is via those dollars versus today’s dollars… Maybe what my parents spent was way more equivalently, but I had picture books with “me” in them– at least, it was a red-haired kid with glasses in the pictures and that seems pretty close. But I was from a lower middle class family in Texas, so I’m guessing they weren’t terribly expensive. So dollar for dollar, I’d expect a LOT more customization than is apparent from your link. Not that they aren’t nice. They are. But I don’t see anything revolutionary here given that I got the same thing as a kid. Maybe I missed something? Or may my folks spent way more on those books for me than I think they could actually afford?
And it wasn’t just ME they could customize. When the story they picked for me had a dog in it, they could pick big/medium/small and pick the color. I had a border collie then, and they were able to pick “medium” and “spotted black/white” in some fashion (and also give it a name) so that the Reilly in my little book was pretty damned close to the Reilly in my real life. I must be missing something. How is this 38-years better than what I got when I was 6?
It really isn’t cute to get it wrong: “the adventures of you and me” would fly just fine. Sad.
Guys, I’m as much of a stickler for good grammar as anyone, but come on, that’s hardly the point here.
Nice.
We were doing something similar in Italy in 2002, with Philips Design and the University of LiУge, where kids could create their own books and print them, or modify someone else’s:
http://www.frwrd.net/projects/pogopiu/
Thanks for the review Khoi.
Re: The title. I give you “The King and I”, “Whitnail and I”, and “Yoü and I” (I bet no one called out Lady Gaga on her poor umlauting).
Right, Armin, when it is preceded by the preposition OF, the object of that preposition must be ME — not I. ME is OBJective; I is SUBjective. No argument. This is basic construction. Either you speak and write the language correctly, or you don’t.
Details matter. I would not buy or subscribe to a great product if it were presented on a shitty web site. Same applies here.
Rick: This is for kids! it doesn’t have to be grammatically correct. It needs to sound fun, which it does. If you want to buy one of these for yourself, then you might have some more troubles than behaving like a pretentious grade school english teacher.
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is more than just a fine line! it’s like the difference between a lightning bug and the lightning!
I love Armin and Bryony’s work, and follow Brand New religiously even without being a designer.
That being said, it’s not being a stickler to expect basic English in a children’s book. We share books with our children to teach them how to read. Either this was an honest mistake or Armin/Bryoni really wanted theadventuresofyouandi.com and figured people wouldn’t care about the grammar.