Vinceland

Dear Simplicity and Function,

You are the foster father of success. Please never leave us, and please continue to enhance just about every moment of my day, beginning with morning rituals.

It is you who allow our plumbing system to pump water and remove waste every single day. Please, never ever fail to prevent a crap backup into our basement. You’re the best.

You facilitate the Apple computer sleep function, and it is you who makes sure my laptop is at the ready every time I wake it up.

You make blogs worth reading.

You defy gravity, and harness the laws of nature in the same breath to make our days better.

My friendly S+F, you make pages worth turning, doors worth opening, rocks worth uncovering, toothpaste worth squeezing out.

Simplicity and Function, it is you who allow us to get so much done in a day. You live at Ikea, most of the time.

Please continue to inspire activity without stifling creativity.

Please continue to be affordable in the context of cars, music devices, communication devices, computing machines, door knobs and time pieces.

Two words: More Google.

S+F, rear your smooth, clean head more often, where it’s needed most: in the classrooms of the world.

Continue to instill confidence in your minions.

Continue to inspire designers and artists of all types to create more with less.

Work your magic on the words, phrases and sentences written on these pages and others.

Simplicity and Function, do your best to make your way into the lives of everyday idiots and people who waste time and space.

I will make it my mission to recognize you indoors and out.

I will see your influence over the natural world, and appreciate the design that time and evolution have provided.

I will try to spend more time connecting with some of your most beautifully designed elements with some of ours: Fly rods with trout.

Thank you for being part of the design of great fly rods that cast lines that carry flies that catch fish.

I’m stoked on your comfort-waist tight-style boxers.

I also appreciate your role in creating great software, some of which we use every single day. We will do our best to continue the trend of simple, functional software.

Simplicity and Function, please, affect everything we do in a positive way and continue to show up in unexpected places from unexpected sources.

We look forward to the Iphone.