It’s not often that design gets the level of press coverage that it truly deserves, and when it does, it’s usually negative– as is the case with the hub-bub surrounding the recently announced identity for the 2012 London Olympics. Almost 50,000 people have signed an online petition to have the logo– designed by Wolf Ollins [...]
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2007 National Design Awards
The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum yesterday announced the winners of the eighth annual National Design Awards, honoring the very best in American architecture and design. This year’s winners include Apple’s design chief Jonathan Ive, rockstar cover designer Chip Kidd, and design software giant Adobe Systems.
While the awards go a long way in recognizing [...]
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“Bit Literacy” & Good Experience Meet-Up
Mark Hurst, User Experience expert and author of the new book, Bit Literacy is hosting a seminar and reader meet-up in NYC this coming Wednesday, May 23rd. The seminar is $40, and includes a copy of the book. Unfortunately, I get into the city too late for the seminar, but I’m hoping to make it [...]
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Free Download: 2007 Skylines Calendar
In celebration of International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day, I have decided to make public the work of which I am most proud, a 2007 calendar featuring the skylines of 6 beautiful international cities.
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On this day, everyone who wants to should give away professional quality work online. It doesn’t matter if it’s a novel, a story [...]
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Use Numerals– Not Words– For Better Usability
It’s always nice when a something comes out that backs up something you’ve been asserting on your own for ages, especially when that thing seems to be common sense. According to eyetracking data from a recent study, numerals (27) catch user’s attention more than words of the same meaning (twenty-three). Things that are ‘out of [...]
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Paula Scher Blog Map
Follwing the pickup of the Kathy Sierra saga in the mainstream media, rockstar graphic designer and Pentagram New York principal Paula Scher penned a visual Op-Ed piece for the New York Times showing the progression of discussion which follows a controversial blog post.
Larger version here.
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Design Icon – David Carson
I had the chance this evening to attend a talk by renowned designer David Carson— part of AIGA Colorado’s “Design Icon” series of lectures. David is a talented public speaker and had many insightful, interesting, and humorous things say about his work and the philosophy of design.
Readability has a lot to do with what you [...]
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Type in Motion
Savannah College of Art and Design student Jarratt Moody produced this fantastic motion piece featuring dialogue from Pulp Fiction for his “Time-Based Typography” class taught by Motionographer editor Jared Cone.
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Typographic Design: Form and Communication, Fourth Edition
My first impression of this book– sitting on the shelf of the campus bookstore where I had gone to purchase books for my very first design class– wasn’t great. The cover was dated and ugly, and a quick flip through the pages didn’t show anything all that exciting. Little did I know that by the [...]
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Elvis or The Beatles; Designers Decide
“Now I’m gonna ask you a bunch of quick questions I’ve come up with that more of less tell me what kind of person I’m having dinner with. My theory is that when it comes to important subjects, there’s only two ways a person can answer. For instance, there’s two kinds of people in this [...]
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