Oliver Reichenstein
@reichenstein.bsky.social
Founder of iA. Https://iA.net
Had a great time giving the talk on Madness and Imagination this morning at Beyond Tellerrand #btconf. Here are the slides (raw unedited). I'm on the way to Berlin right now. Will be back tomorrow. sharing.ia.net/presenter/b5...
Madness and Imagination
Madness and Imagination Dare to Know, Dare to Imagine, Dare to Make
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You boss needs to be convinced that the investment for #btconf for you is worth every cent? Here are arguments to tell him it‘s a great investment! beyondtellerrand.com/convince-you...
Why Your Employee Should Attend beyond tellerrand
beyond tellerrand is the affordable single-track event where creativity and technology meet. Taking place in Düsseldorf and Berlin these days with 500+ attendees each in a renowned, familiar and frien...
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20 years of iA in Wallpapers. This set celebrates the launch of iA Writer for Windows in 2018. ia.net/topics/ia-wi...
Today’s wallpaper set illustrates the infinite fascination of looking at letters up close. ia.net/topics/ia-wi...
Last day today. The iA Notebook pop-up at Tsutaya Books Daikanyama runs until November 13. You can try writing and feel the texture of the paper. If you can’t visit, the notebook is also available online: store.ia.net store.tsite.jp/daikanyama/e...
【フェア】日本店頭初販売、「iA Notebook」で書くことをはじめよう。 | 代官山T-SITE
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Who wrote this? Did I or ChatGPT? What if you could see it at a glance? With iA Writer you can. It clearly separates generated text from human authors. ia.net/topics/see-w...
I've always wanted to see iA Writer on posters in the streets of Zurich. This week we took a few days to make a draft. What do you think? They are inspired by the VW bug ads from Ogilvy. I think they work as posters as well as magazine ads (magazine ads are not gonna happen though).
Really enjoyed @reichenstein.bsky.social‘s thoughtful and entertaining talk at #smashingconf today! Amazing to see how philosophical ideas influenced the design of iA’s apps and what designers can and could learn from philosophy – and vice versa. A lot of food for thought!
This is happening when you are REALLY into your talk. Thanks so much, @reichenstein.bsky.social ! Great joy watching you at @smashingconf.com
Here is my final draft of the presentation for tomorrows Smashing talk in Freiburg: sharing.ia.net/presenter/be... There will be still a lot of editing. I the spirit of the talk: Face the truth, feedback for this prototype is very very welcome.
Philosophy for Designers
Oliver Reichenstein Philosophy for Designers Freiburg, September 10th 2025
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iA Presenter is on ProductHunt, today: www.producthunt.com/products/ia-...
iA Presenter: Instant Slides | Product Hunt
Most presentation apps make us spend hours fiddling with layouts, colors, and fonts… only to end up with boring, cluttered slides. iA Presenter takes a different approach: it lets you focus on your st...
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Imagine a presentation app that allows you to write professional presentations in under 20 minutes. Its beautiful typographic templates automatically scale to any screen. Create, fine-tune, rehearse, and present your deck anywhere. And, you can do all of that on a phone. ia.net/topics/a-pre...
A Presentation App That Works on Your Phone
iA Presenter is now available on iPhone, iPad and Mac
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Imagine a form field that looks and feels like your phone’s screen has a real indent. If the glass effect is tied directly to the surface interaction, the animation would feel consistent… ia.net/topics/liqui...
Liquid Glass
Design or Kitsch?
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Great work from the team designing the iA Booth for Life Style Week at Tokyo Big Site. Come by to say hi if you're there. www.lifestyle-expo.jp/hub/en-gb.html
The iA Team will be at the LIFESTYLE Week TOKYO fair (Big Sight) this week to showcase our award-winning iA Notebook. Come by our booth and say hello! www.lifestyle-expo.jp/hub/en-gb.html
Japan’s Leading Tokyo Lifestyle trade show | Discover Lifestyle Trends
Join LIFESTYLE Week Tokyo to discover the latest lifestyle trends in gifts, stationery, homeware, and fashion. Connect with 45,000+ high-quality international buyers at Japan’s leading B2B lifestyle t...
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Second time at Infinite Loop. First ADA nomination. First time at Apple Park.
Design awards usually go to what’s new. But here’s the paradox: The only way to tell if a design is really good is if it stands the test of time. So getting picked after 15 years is good news for good design. For ideas that hold up. For products built to last. ia.net/topics/apple...
Apple Design Award Finalist After 15 Years
Good design takes time
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Cleaning up the website for iA's 20th anniversary this year. Almost through all the illustrations. About 20 are missing and some are still lame. We will go through all of them and fix tagging, categorization and formatting, too. Try to find hi res images, where available. Taking care. ia.net/news
Johny Ive: "... the problem is that much of my contribution you can’t easily measure with a number." ia.net/topics/what-we-make-sta...
“What we make stands testament to who we are.”
Jony Ive and the philosophy of design
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"To understand bread you need to make bread." Without using our hands to create what we want to understand, we do not properly comprehend what we read or hear. ia.net/topics/maker...
Maker’s Knowledge
We only know what we made ourselves or: Why we want to know how things are made.
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The third Tokyo Focus Track just went live. We wrote a little blog post about our new little series: ia.net/topics/tokyo...
Tokyo Focus Tracks
Sitting on a train, you don’t need to do anything—you just move forward. It’s the perfect mindset for writing.
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From the limited insights of I got into how tech people are communicating among themselves, this describes it very well: www.semafor.com/article/04/2... By @semaforben.bsky.social
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Our second Tokyo Focus Track: Take the full 360 on the Yamanote Line with us. Big type. Train sounds to chill and write. youtu.be/w913VyhFTbE
Tokyo Focus Track 02 - Yamanote Line
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We're humbled and honored and... No! We're completely hysterical, pompous and showing off. We've earned it. ia.net/topics/ia-no...
IA Notebook Wins Red Dot: Best Of The Best 2025
The iA Notebook has just won the Red Dot “Best of the Best” in Product Design 2025.
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🧵 Here is Earth's rotation realized in an unusual way: using a camera scanning the landscape of Tivoli, Namibia, Bartosz Wojczyński focused on the sky. He created a timelapse spanning 24 h that has a focal point in the sky rather than on the ground. ➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20070... 🔭 🧪 #galactic
You know Laravel? We're hiring: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...
iA Inc. hiring Laravel Full Stack Developer in Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan | LinkedIn
Posted 1:23:27 PM. Role DescriptionWe are looking for a Laravel Full Stack Developer at iA Inc. The role will involve…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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I wanted to quickly explain why, school kids should learn markdown instead of MS Office, and ended up writing another major Epos: ia.net/topics/markd... This is, I kid you not, about 1/6th of what I wrote. I'll publish the rest later.
Markdown and the slow fade of the formatting fetish
Notes on a revolution in slow motion.
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