Five on Friday #6: Cinnamon, books, one, paintings and success
Welcome to edition #6 of Five on Friday, a weekly roundup of links to articles, videos or products that are interesting, inspiring, fun or simply beautiful. Grab your fresh vanilla latte, sit back, and enjoy.
Café: Fragments
If you ever find yourself roaming the streets of Paris in Le Marais, be sure to pay Fragments a visit for your breakfast or lunch. It’s small, and really busy (I had to wait 20 minutes for a table), but the food was top notch. I can highly recommend the poached egg with avocado, and a cinnamon bun with your coffee.
How To: How To Retain More From The Books You Read In 5 Simple Steps
Darius definitely tries to tackle one of my challenges of retaining the actual information that I consume on a daily basis. These tricks can actually be applied to more than just books, like reading articles on Medium. Number 5, immediately applying some of the knowledge you’ve learned it my favorite.
Tip: The One Question Great Designers Ask
by Nathan Barry
Simple article on one import question that Visual Designers should ask when working on Interfaces: How should it work? It sounds simple, because it is, but we sometimes forget the most simple things.
Video: Why these all-white paintings are in museums and mine aren’t
by Vox
My girlfriend recently gifted us an unlimited museum access card in The Netherlands, which forces us to visit more museums. It’s impressive how often modern museums trigger kind of the discussion shown in the video above, when is art really art?
Learn: Why design is key to Airbnb’s incredible success
My personal experience says a large percentage of modern (tech) companies have design up there as one of its key pillars of success. Airbnb is definitely one of them where design is in their core identity.
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