Sigma BF, One Roof, and Mountain Beak Street Welcome to Built Different. Each week-ish I share the unconventional startup strategies I'm learning from my work, plus the products, brands, and places I think are worth your attention. Object | CAMERA Sigma BF I feels like a cold, heavy deck of cards made of die-cast aluminum. It’s a brutalist block of metal that ignores every convention of how a camera should look. Most brands add rubber grips and plastic curves to feel ergonomic, but Sigma just...
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Article One, Building Without Permission, and Glasan Cabin in Scotland Welcome to Built Different. Each week-ish I share the unconventional startup strategies I'm learning from my work, plus the products, brands, and places I think are worth your attention. BUILD | Artificial Intelligence Building Without Permission I spent twenty years pretending I knew how to build websites. I called it dabbling, but really I was just learning enough CSS to change a hex code or move a button three pixels to...
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Kehai Clock, Impossible Triangle, and Glasan Cabin in Scotland Welcome to Built Different. Each week-ish I share the unconventional startup strategies I'm learning from my work, plus the products, brands, and places I think are worth your attention. BUILD | LOGISTICS Impossible Triangle I spent forty-five minutes today explaining why shipping is complicated to an app developer. On his screen, software travels at the speed of light. In my world, a twenty-foot container filled with backpacks...
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Object | Audio Teenage Engineering OB-4 It looks like a Bluetooth speaker but behaves like a time machine—it continuously records everything you hear on a two-hour rolling loop, so you can rewind live radio when you miss a song title. The motorized volume knob and tape reel aren't just design flourishes; you physically spin and manipulate sound like you're working with tape. From € 549.Details → BUILD | Word of Mouth The Invisible Ones I spent five minutes this morning staring at an Instagram...
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