{"id":39447,"date":"2013-10-31T06:17:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T11:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=39447"},"modified":"2013-10-31T06:58:28","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T11:58:28","slug":"say-what-you-will-about-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=39447","title":{"rendered":"Say What You Will About Design"},"content":{"rendered":"

I like my iPhone.<\/p>\n

It’s not only functional, it’s a pretty amazing bit of design.<\/p>\n

But as a matter of principle, I want to jam a pie in the face of every single subject of this article<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cKeeping your iPhone in its most minimalist state is always preferred in design circles,\u201d says Shayna Kulik, brand strategist and founder of trend forecasting site Pattern Pulp.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s about people who\u00a0don’t buy protective cases for their iPhones – as a matter of principle:<\/p>\n

So who is this creative cult potentially sacrificing hundreds of dollars or more for the sleek look and feel of their case-free iPhone? For one, they seem to worship at the altar of Apple…Aubrie Pagano, CEO and founder of made-to-order clothing site Bow & Drape, agrees: “To throw a $5.99 plastic bedazzled cover over an iPhone corrupts its integrity.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sorry, millennial dweebs. \u00a0I have no money to waste on replacing something that is hugely useful but – I stress this – very expensive outside of my biennial contract.<\/p>\n

And so I use an Otter Box.<\/p>\n

And until iPhone screens are less fragile than Lindsay Lohan’s sobriety, I will.<\/p>\n

(Android people: \u00a0Yes, I know. \u00a0I’ve heard it all before. \u00a0Don’t care. \u00a0All of your comments will be mutilated for my pleasure).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I like my iPhone. It’s not only functional, it’s a pretty amazing bit of design. But as a matter of principle, I want to jam a pie in the face of every single subject of this article: \u201cKeeping your iPhone in its most minimalist state is always preferred in design circles,\u201d says Shayna Kulik, brand […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39447"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39455,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39447\/revisions\/39455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}