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Awesome digital present = muji + design jargon
This site = super normal (sketchbook + normal life + web wanderlust)


Super Normal Wanderlust: 

su·per·nor·mal (spr-nôrml) adj.
1. Greatly exceeding the normal or average but still obeying natural laws.
2. Paranormal
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.



"I mentioned having seen Naoto Fukasawas aluminium stools for Magis and how they seemed to have a special kind of normality about them, and he added: “super normal“. That was it, a name for what I have been trying to achieve all these years, a perfect summary of what design should be, now more than ever." 
- Super Normal 2006 Jasper Morrison recalling a conversation with Takashi Okutani Published by Lars Müller Publishers  

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