I don't think anybody knows who any of the below mentioned men are,
East of the Sacramento River.
Physical architecture has been around and celebrated as a celebrity-
worship-worthy vocation, for thousands of years. *Everybody* in a
given region also sees buildings, whereas not everybody uses most
pieces of software.
Software design has only been a vocation for a couple of decades. My
family in Oklahoma still give me blank stares when I explain what I
do- and so despite no longer being employed by Yahoo!, I still just
blurt out "oh, I make Yahoo!," and that's pretty much the only thing
that will prompt the raised-eyebrow-nod of comprehension. So they
either then get that I work on teh internets w/o any further drill-
down clarification (which they wouldn't know what to do with anyway),
or they think I'm a hooker- and either, I'm fine with, so long as they
quit asking.
Raymond Loewy and Yves Behar I also think are only design-community
and design-conscious community celebrities... known only among the
Prada-wearing or New-Balance sneakers w/ free software-shirt wearing
geeks out there.
Challenge (perhaps?) for our own community: surfacing and celebrating
the women mavericks among us, and lessening the sausage-party-ness of
design celebrity. I know the biggest contributor to this "problem" is
that there just aren't that many chicks in the field to begin with...
but in a big long list, it does seem un-fit for no estrogen to preside.
:D n
On Feb 17, 2009, at 2:59 PM, Joel Eden wrote:
The Woz is going to be on the next season of Dancing with the
Stars...does that count? :-)
Joel
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Weston Thompson
<westo...@gmail.com> wrote:
Possible exceptions you missed:
- Steve Jobs
- Jeff Bezos
- Sergei Brin
- Larry page
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