John Maeda: simplicity patterns

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.
[link: ted.com]

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