TAG: design
"Sorapot is a simple modern teapot designed to brew heat-sensitive green and white teas."
"creating favicons has never been easier"
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"So to make things easier for you, here I present my top 50 graphic design blogs. I’ve categorised these blogs by their Google PageRank (PR), which is Google’s way of determining the authority of a website / blog."
"Every year, hundreds of nonprofit organizations rely on the Taproot Foundation's award winning Service Grant program to provide millions of dollars worth of pro bono marketing, HR and IT consulting services."
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"experiments with hand lettering...a ongoing series based on spam subject lines in my mailbox"
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"To accelerate your learning, we've come up with a list of a few light-hearted recommendations around building good social applications."
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"Even though points on Consumating were redeemable for absolutely nothing, not even a gold star, our members had an unquenchable desire for them."
Tags: community design games reputation socialnetworking culture psychology
Great infographic from the New York Times breaking down this summer's McCarren Pool concerts.
Tags: visualization design nytimes nyc
"This site converts bitmap images to vector art - it's an online auto-tracer."
Tags: vector illustrator webtools design
"I am pleased to agree that this redesign feels like a great step forward for BusinessWeek, and I'm almost certain that, when the next redesign happens, I will remember what it's previous incarnation felt and looked like."
Tags: magazines design inspiration
"This is my very basic set of shapes for making wireframes (low-fidelity web page schematics) in OmniGraffle (Mac OS X)."
Tags: design ui architecture templates
Very cool last.fm visualizations.
Tags: music visualization design data mashup
Enabling Innovation Through Office Design
"Work has become more mobile and team-based, but most organizations have been slow in changing their workplaces to reflect the new reality"
Tags: business design innovation
My walking experience with the AIGA NY ALPHABET/CITY: A WALKING TOUR WITH TOBIAS FRERE-JONES
"Where do you begin when you’re one of only twenty three people that gets to walk around New York with Tobias Frere-Jones hearing about his observations on type and how it influenced the great typeface Gotham?"
Tags: nyc typography design
The evolution of buttons on Yahoo!, Adobe and Apple
Tags: design trend internet icons
About jobs and networking. Includes the story of how my friend Michael Surtees ended up in New York City (which just happens to be because of me).
Tags: networking jobs business design
New website.
Tags: design inspiration typography
"Discover new people on your Twitter block by navigating through this animated three dimensional visualization of who follows whom."
Tags: twitter visualization design
"In a way this bundle that constitutes mainstream music begins to establish a model that could be the future of recorded music  that the recordings are the “loss leaders� for everything else."
Tags: music design packaging business culture
Banner Blindness: Old and New Findings
"We simply confirmed for the umpteenth time that banner blindness is real. Users almost never look at anything that looks like an advertisement, whether or not it's actually an ad."
Tags: advertising marketing internet design usability research
The Good, the Bad, and the Odd in Curbside Culture
"In this new, occasional department, we ask design professionals to tell us what they see when they traverse the city. What tricks are advertisers using? Is pink the new orange?"
"Paula's is filled with 14 whimsical fonts she drew while on an airplane and sitting by the sea in Jamaica."
Tags: notebooks design typography inspiration
"The foundational YUI Reset CSS file removes and neutralizes the inconsistent default styling of HTML elements, creating a level playing field across A-grade browsers and providing a sound foundation upon which you can explicitly declare your intentions."
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How a graphic designer and a typographer and their obsession with fonts and legibility led to a painstaking effort to clean up America’s road signs, one letter at a time.
Tags: design typography cars betterness transportation
Little snips of good design.
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Data Visualization: Modern Approaches
"Let’s take a look at the most interesting modern approaches to data visualization as well as related articles, resources and tools."
Tags: visualization design
How Apple's small things influence their big things
"It’s cool how Apple’s design language keeps evolving. One product design follows another. There’s a continuity this way, yet things continue to feel new. And it’s interesting how their small designs influence their large designs."
Rethinking the fold in a webpage.
"LiveSurface images are high-resolution, print-quality photos with pre-built layer masks, surface data (Vanishing Point planes) and image components (such as shadows) on individual layers."
A two-minute animated introduction to typography
"A two-minute animated introduction to typography created by Vancouver Film School students Ryan Uhrich and Marcos Ceravolo."
Tags: typography video design animation
brian eno and music for airports- the inspiration
"Brian Eno talks about what inspired him to create Music for Airports, the album that gave birth to the ambient movement"
Tags: airports music design inspiration
Desktop Orb Could Reform Energy Hogs
"That's the power of "ambient information," which tries to combat data overload by moving information off computer screens and into the world around us."
Tags: design feedbackloops gadgets green visualization
iPhone Reality/Sanity Check -- my iWish list
"In conclusion, I think the iPhone is the great-great-grand-father of the future of personal media devices."
IPHONE. CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISMS.
Jeff Staple points out 18 flaws with the iPhone.
Feltron.com Personal Annual Report 2005
One man's chronicle.
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As grouped by their dominant design elements.
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"To my mind Graphis Diagrams has to be one of the seminal publications on diagrams. Less acedemic than Tufte, this book showcases a wealth of styles from the crazy to the intensely Swiss. Here are some of my favourite parts."
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Lots and lots of nicely designed business cards.
Tags: businesscards design gallery inspiration
Apple's iPhone and Social Proof
"When we see so many people going out of their way to do something that we may have been wondering about, it surely makes us more likely to do it ourselves."
Tags: design psychology
Le Monde Diplomatique Redesign
By Spiekermann: "Le Monde Diplomatique appears worldwide in 20 languages and 30 countries and has more than 1.5 million readers."
Tags: newspapers design inspiration
"This is a confident design. Coca-cola is acknowledging that we all know the product, so just drink it. They've given similar treatment to the majority of the Coke line, including Diet and Zero. Simple, back to basics, pure equity."
Tags: design packaging coke branding simplicity
Beautiful posters by Niklaus Troxler.
Tags: design inspiration
"Jonathan Harris distills the Web’s infinite avalanche of thoughts, facts, and feelings into exquisitely framed portraits of humanity."
Tags: art design visualization internet programming
"The future is here and it's not an iPhone . . . it's a big ass table."
Tags: funny video microsoft design
"The details are not details. They make the product." - Charles Eames
10 Things We Can Learn From Apple
"Here are ten reasons why I think Apple is so successful today, and what we can learn from them"
Tags: apple design bestarticlesof2007 innovation marketing
"Each sector of these piecharts is proportional to the area of the colour on the respective flag Click on an image to reveal the flag"
Tags: flags colors design visualization
A giant list of companies and the typeface they use.
Tags: fonts typography design reference
"Re-created Safari's browser chrome in Illustrator."
Tags: browser design illustrator vector
"Here is a collection of cool business cards to inspire you. Most of them are from the Business Cards flickr pool, some of them from Ads of the World."
Tags: businesscards design
"Vecteezy is an index of Free Vectors available for download by some of the best designers around the world."
Tags: illustrator design free gallery vector
Human Joysticks (NewsBreaker Live interactive cinema game)
"The debut of interactive crowd gaming in movie theaters. Captured opening weekend of Spider Man 3 in Los Angeles. Created by SS+K in collaboration with Brand Experience Lab for msnbc.com."
Tags: video design marketing games movies advertising
"The aerodynamic SENZ umbrella claims to resists storms up to wind force 10!"
Tags: design
"In one setting Bell can fill halls with people who gladly pay hundreds of dollars to see him and stifle their coughs in reverence to his craft. In another, more than 1000 people pass him by without even the slightest acknowledgment."
"Read over 4200 brutally honest independent reviews of selected shops and assorted establishments in over 150 superfuture cities."
Tags: city culture design reviews travel shopping
Very cool web clock.
Tags: design visualization cool
All about the recently redesign US passport, which "comes with 13 inspirational quotes, including six from United States presidents and one from a Mohawk Thanksgiving speech."
Tags: design politics travel strange
Who says we need our logo on every slide?
"Most companies with a PowerPoint template certainly insist that their employees use the company logo on every slide. But is this good advice? Slide real estate is limited as it is, why clutter it with logos and trademarks, footers, and so on?"
Tags: presentation design powerpoint
It's the Conversation Economy, Stupid
As consumer markets fragment, marketers and designers must understand how platforms evolve and influence human behavior
Tags: conversation communication marketing design
Helpful distortion at NYC & London subway maps
"Subway map readers want to know how to get from A to B a lot more than they want to know the exact curve of the tracks along the way. Sometimes truth is less important than knowledge."
Tags: design usability subway maps
Redesigned nyc subway maps.
Inside the interactive mind - or something resembling a mind
Strawberry Frog's process for making websites.
Tags: marketing advertising design internet funny
How Aggregate Displays Change User Behavior
"A fascinating study demonstrates how simply displaying aggregate data like Top 10 lists heavily influences the way people make decisions on social web sites."
Tags: aggregation design socialsoftware web2.0 interface
Rain Storms in New York City Trigger Visible Feedback Loops
"Our culture so values factory-freshness that the moment of box-opening is the only stage of a product’s life that’s usually designed. The rest is left to fate."
"I'm doing a thing for w+k on Thursday, as part of their 25th anniversary do. It's a petcha-kucha-style thing. 25 slides. 25 seconds each. I was going to write it in powerpoint, but then I thought I'd try and write it in flickr instead. See how that worke
Tags: marketing flickr presentation design
Forrester Sees Web Design Boom
"Forrester said the Internet's central role as an information resource has made Web projects key strategic priorities at many companies, leading to a revenue growth rate of at least 20 percent at most shops working in that space."
Tags: internet advertising design marketing
"Muji's US target will be an active group of Americans who seek alternatives to showy brand consumerism; those who are looking to pursue higher goals in their consumption habits, but importantly, want to show and share those goals to others."
Tags: business shopping japan design nyc
No one belongs here more than you
A strangely brilliant idea for a website.
Tags: books inspiration fun design
Separated by a common language
"Take the problem of left handed people being unable to use a pair of scissors, advertising people would approach this by telling left handed people how to use the existing scissors better whereas design people would create a new pair of scissors."
Tags: marketing design advertising creativity
"The "long table" is a physical manifestation of networked culture. Information is less driven by hierarchy and process and more driven through connections, collaboration, transparency and as Noah aptly put it in his blog, moments of serrendipity."
Tags: design ideas marketing business
"Great design drives profits. We know that. But we can't prove it--yet."
Tags: business design marketing roi
Some amazing paper cutouts.
Tags: design art fun templates
New at Pentagram: TIME Magazine
"Today, TIME launches the first issue of a major redesign developed by Pentagram’s Luke Hayman with TIME managing editor Richard Stengel and art director Arthur Hochstein."
Tags: design magazines typography
Kill the stress: Knit . . . a great ad.
Tags: advertising design knitting
"The "What does Marsellus Wallace Look Like" scene in Pulp Fiction portrayed using nothing but typography. By Jarratt Moody."
Tags: movies typography design bestarticlesof2007
"Le Grand Content examines the omnipresent Powerpoint-culture in search for its philosophical potential. Intersections and diagrams are assembled to form a grand 'association-chain-massacre'. which challenges itself to answer all questions of the universe
Tags: culture powerpoint data design philosophy visualization
"The way to inspire a designer is to give them the message and feeling you want to convey, and the freedom to convey it in a fresh, new way."
A book by the agency LOVE used to help them pitch themselves. Looks like a children's book complete with textures to touch. Beautiful.
Jay-Z to help relaunch Cherry Coke
"Jay-Z is set to help relaunch Cherry Coke. The rapper's Rocawear firm will design the new can, and the product's TV commercials."
Tags: branding marketing design trend music
"Experience exists only in the minds of your customers. When a person engages with your products, services, and environments, a set of distinct human qualities comes into play:"
Paradox of the active user (aka "I don't *want* to RTFM")
"The “paradox of the active user� is a paradox because users would save time in the long term by taking some initial time to optimize the system and learn more about it. But that’s not how people behave in the real world . . . "
Tags: design interface usability
"People have been calling them “guerilla farms� or “green graffiti,� I guess because it is done without permission. But I believe it is a victimless crime, if a crime at all."
Tags: japan city design green food
"The results are listed below - the most beautiful fonts, created by the open-source community and free for personal, academic and (sometimes) commercial use."
How Steve Jobs blew his iPhone keynote
Should he really have announced six months before release?
Tags: apple technology mobile design presentation business
Clay talks about elegance, one of my favorite themes of the moment.
Tags: elegance branding marketing design
"Droog is a brand and a mentality: design of products that do what they should and think about why they’re doing it in the first place: function? fun? wit? criticism? All of the above?"
Tags: design marketing inspiration ideas dutch
Transportation Textile Patterns
More rugs from trains and subways than you could ever imagine.
Tags: photography transportation design
The world's strongest, most beautiful umbrellas.
"The two big user interface questions I have about the iPhone are how useful it will be if you can't pay full attention to the screen, and whether it will favor power users once they've gotten the hang of it."
Apple's New Calling: The iPhone
Time has a good breakdown of the iPhone.
Tags: apple design mobile technology innovation
2006 Advertising/Design Goodness Year in Review
"Thanks to all of you for making the year 2006 of Advertisng/Design Goodness such a sucess. Let’s have a look at what I think is the best of the year."
Tags: marketing advertising design bestof2006
Lots of info on the hazards of packaging . . .
Is Design the New Management Consultancy? Not Exactly
"Some folks are asking this question. I’ve spent the past two years making the transition from designer to business consultant, jumping a lot of hurdles along the way. Here’s a little of what I learned"
Tags: design business consulting strategy management
As compiled by Communication Arts.
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A collection of North American front pages from the day after Saddam's death.
Tags: design newspapers politics iraq
Why your bosses want to turn your new office into Greenwich Village.
Tags: architecture business management city collaboration culture design innovation productivity
Michael Bierut explains the new Saks' identity by Pentagram
Tags: design branding packaging shopping typography logos
"In an age of microscopic technologies and sweeping Google-earth panoramas, Will Wright, the world's most successful video-game inventor, has set out to create game (or is it the art form?) that will teach us how to really see."
Tags: videogames education thinking creativity design technology
"So I made the above PSD for myself back when I was working at Facebook, it was an easy way to just grab a tint I wanted whenever I needed it (since Facebook is only based off of 2-3 colors anyway)."
Tags: photoshop design colors tools
"How do you do it? By honoring your community, making reasonable and transparent rules, getting experts to help you, and encouraging positive, thoughtful behavior from your site's members."
Tags: community google design business socialsoftware
tagging vs. cataloging: what it's all about
"So, tagging has brought metadata to the masses, thanks to both its ease of use as well as its clear value."
Tags: tags ia metadata design usability
Why can't design be like this?
"I don’t know any members of the AIGA and I’m starting to wonder if it’s a design culture where people just want to stay in their own bubble."
Tags: likemind community design
"Great design on the web that I'm archiving here for inspiration and recognition."
Tags: design inspiration photography gallery
Cool color theme online application from Adobe.
One of the nicest Flash designs I've seen in a long time.
Tags: design inspiration portfolio
Air Traffic as Seen by the FAA
"The following flight pattern visualizations are the result of experiments leading to the project Celestial Mechanics by Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne."
Tags: video airports travel emergence maps design visualization
Would You Like Me To Seduce You?
"[These products] are being differentiated by the difference they make in our lives and the attitudinal difference it creates in the passionate zealots that participate in these new consumer cults."
Tags: design branding marketing identity consumerism
"This is a pretty funny flash animation created by Clayborn Creative Consulting. It shows you flags from around the world, and comments that clients would say if the flags were presented."
Tags: design flags funny marketing
Messing With Your Brand's Logo Is No Longer A No-Go
"Though MTV has been known to constantly update its logos, branding experts were at a loss to remember the last time a marketer tweaked its logo in an ad."
Tags: branding logos design advertising trend
"interactive design, public installations, 3D software development from Melbourne, Australia"
Tags: design art australia portfolio inspiration
Erik Spiekermann answers "What is the ONE thing you think every student of typography should know?"
Tags: typography design tips
Some great photos of ordinary objects doing unordinary things.
Tags: design creativity books lifehacks
Tools for Making the Crap Great
"Creating tools and formats that give people a say and getting them creatively engaged will be the secret to making the "Direct Economy" a reality."
Tags: creativity technology design
Embed marketing in products: Crispin Porter + Bogusky CEO
"Google and Starbucks both don’t use much traditional media to get their message across, he said. But that’s because their marketing is embedded in the brand."
Tags: business advertising design trend
"With 175,000 being created every day and the blogosphere doubling in size every six months, the standards for a quality weblog have become much higher. Here are 7 ways to optimize yours."
Screening People with Clearances
"We don't have infinite dollars to spend on security. We need to choose where to spend our money, and we're best off if we spend it in ways that give us the most security for our dollar."
Tags: security airports travel design
10 seeeeeriously cool workplaces
Photos from ten really cool looking spaces created to inspire creativity.
Tags: creativity design business management architecture furniture productivity
Participation Inequality: Lurkers vs. Contributors in Internet Communities
"In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action."
Tags: design internet blogs search attention web2.0
10 Things That Will Make Or Break Your Website
"These are the top 10 things I learned from attending the Future of Web Apps Conference 2006 in San Francisco earlier this month."
Tags: tips internet marketing design startups usability business
"To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit; it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse."
"Fandom has become a mechanized process of blogging, programming playlists, shooting and distributing videos, file-sharing, and even remixing tracks. Beck’s sticker cover is just one way that he has acknowledged this shift."
Tags: music remix creativity design cocreation
Accessibility for blind people
An interview with a blind person that covers many accessibility issues, specifically some good tips for web accessibility.
Tags: accessibility design html standards
"So here’s my staple answer on ideal roles, followed by some thoughts on reality."
Tags: design projectmanagement
Learning from the art of comics
Presentation lessons taken from Scott McCloud's The Art of Comics.
Tags: comics communication design presentation
When the packaging makes it perfect
"Great packaging makes shopping more fun, and, as Tiffany has proved, occasionally elicits cash from impressionable people like me."
Tags: design branding packaging marketing fashion
Why is it so hard to grasp scrolling?
"The Internet was founded as, and should remain a system on which people agree to agree for the sake of a better good, not simply wrap the conformance with substrates that enable a more “free� form of expression."
Tags: design flash internet browser
1000 Words of Advice for Design Teachers
Good advice for teaching design and just about anything else.
Tags: design education teaching creativity
An in-depth look at the man behind Apple's design magic.
Tags: design apple process business
"What would happen, I wonder, if I actually told the truth about what happens in a design process?"
Tags: creativity culture design process management productivity business bestarticlesof2006
Top 10 Best Presentations Ever
Good list of expected and unexpected great presentations.
Tags: presentation powerpoint design video
The Process of Defining the Problem
"Had we not gone through the process of better defining the problem, one of the two original options may have been utilized and probably failed to meet the company’s goals."
Tags: process design usability business
7 things I learned at wieden and kennedy (portland edition)
Russell Davies reflects on the advertising industry.
Tags: advertising business branding design management planning tips
"Come Out & Play is a festival dedicated to street games. It is three days of play, talks, and celebration, all focused on new types of games and play."
Tags: conference design fun games cool nyc
"So what’s changed in the last several years that gave designers a seat at the boardroom table and why do we have technology and information overload to thank for it?"
Tags: design business strategy trend
Bus Ticket Origami from REZ in Liverpool
"i know that at least personally people tend to fold, fiddle or tear their tickets . . . so i started folding, designing and then placing origami instruction stickers on the back of seats all around the liverpool area."
"This week, FontShop takes a trip to the supermarket in search of palatable packaging. Among the shelves cluttered with superfluous drop shadows and chaotic typography, it was easy to spot the few beautiful boxes."
Tags: typography font packaging design free
The official SVA site for the pill bottle that target purchased.
On the design of American State flags...
A look at a few of the best and worst designed state flags.
Tags: flags design history politics
Dangerous Beauty: The Art of the Shiv
A beautiful collection of shivs.
Tags: art culture death prison design hacks
A Conversation with Steven Johnson, Part 2
"In part two of Jesse James Garrett’s interview with author Steven Johnson, we look at cultural attitudes and innovation in interface design."
Tags: culture interface design technology books ui
"Authoritatively declaring your mastery of rounded corners, drop shadows, gradients, glows, friendly fonts and The Web2.0 Filter, this card promises to establish your dominance and subdue even the hardiest filter-hater."
LG taps into the power of blogs
"LG appears to have enlisted the power of bloggers to help promote its new Chocolate phone. "
Tags: design mobile technology marketing blogs
Promotion from LG about their new "Chocolate" phone. They are incredibly open about wanting to recruit bloggers to talk about the product. Cool stuff. (If anyone there happens to read this, I'd be happy to help.)
Tags: design mobile technology blogs marketing
Does process matter? Does outcome matter? Do neither matter at all?
Tags: design process creativity art
"Everything eventually comes down to design. If something fails, it is the designer's responsibility."
With the accessibility of new technology, it's all about the content.
Tags: art photography design culture technology media
Making It or Breaking It with Customer Service
"So innovative customer service these days isn’t as much about innovation as it is about core values. Getting back to basics. Sweating the details."
Tags: innovation customerservice design business
Ruthless Focus on the Customer
From the Mini Cooper to Whole Foods, companies and brands are discovering how superior customer experience keeps 'em coming back for more
Tags: design business branding marketing trend
"Users aren't stupid, they're efficient. They're spending the least amount of effort (i.e. intelligence) as they possible can on each step of the goal they're trying to achieve. If you make them spend more, they'll go somewhere else . . ."
Tags: design ia intelligence quotes usability
"If your framework doesn’t explicitly account for culture and context, then it is unlikely that you will be attuned to these things when you do your research and design."
Tags: design marketing strategy process culture
Paul Rand's Logos, Flags, Escutcheons
"The effectiveness of a good logo depends on: a. distinctiveness - b. visibility - c. useability - d. memorability - e. universality - f. durability - g. timelessness"
"Because our modern world has made designers of us all (ready or not), Before & After is dedicated to making graphic design understandable, useful and even fun for everyone. "
How to live happily with a great designer
13 rules including this one: "You don't know a lot about accounting so you don't backseat drive your accountant. You hired a great designer, please don't backseat drive here, either."
Tags: design business management
Seven things graphic designers must be cognizant of.
"Over time as consumer created media engulfs the other kind, it's possible that completely new norms develop around the notions of talent and artistic ability."
Tags: design history myspace cgm video
"Every pixel in the illustration represents one person alive on Earth. The first one is you. The rest are everyone else."
Tags: visualization design statistics
"To follow-up on one of the recurring discussions at this year’s Art of Yahoo! conference, I’ve compiled several of my thoughts on effective design reviews with product stakeholders (clients, business units, etc.)."
Tags: design business process tips
At the New JetBlue Terminal, Passengers May Pirouette to Gate 3
"The architect David Rockwell and the choreographer Jerry Mitchell collaborate to streamline the airport experience."
Tags: dance architecture design nyc airports
The dance of people in public spaces
"Looking for a new angle on movement vs. environment, Rockwell [hired to design the “interior experience� . . . of the new JetBlue terminal . . . at JFK Airport] took a strange turn: He hired choreographer Jerry Mitchell to help him."
Tags: design architecture inspiration nyc airports dance
Creating & Maintaining a Web Style Guide
"This article describes how to create and maintain a web style guide to better manage your organization’s web presence."
Tags: styleguide design branding tips
"We've seen dancing hamsters, Animated GIFs, the blink tag and Netscape Navigator all come and go - but what about the more recent trends?"
"Design Matters" with Debbie Millman Content Library
Download old shows with some of the most interesting designers on the planet.
Tags: design mp3 interviews radio
"You only get one chance to make a first impression; why have it be "junk"? Once that's associated with your name or project, it's tough to scrape off." The other side of the "release early, release often" coin.
Tags: design development opensource
"The message reflects one of W+K founder Dan Wieden's sayings, "You're only good to me after you've made three tremendous mistakes." (See also our 'Embrace failure' sign.) Hence, the 12's advice to everyone at W+K : Fail Harder."
Tags: art design advertising management
On the Fimoculous redesign: "Although it might look like I've merely thrown a bunch of widgets on the page, it's actually intended to signal a notion that I've lately been bouncing off people: the future of blogging is self-aggregation."
Tags: blogs design aggregation attention
Design and the World Cup: what can we learn?
A critique of the 2006 World Cup design.
Tags: logos design branding soccer
"The new structure that appears through the broken shelves gives space to differently sized books. One element provides a place to sit and read inside the shelves."
Shock of the Neue: Graffiti Fonts By Graffiti Writers
"The fledgling type foundry is working with regional writers from the United States to create digital typefaces that take their inspiration from graffiti in their expressiveness, yet are regulated for evenness in typographic settings."
Tags: graffiti typography fonts design
"A profession, problem-solving methodolgy and communication."
Tags: design
Recent Rebrandings 13: All FutureBrand
I really like the International Rescue Committee and the Yuerba Buena logos. MasterCard I'm not so fond of.
Tags: logos branding design inspiration
What is good PowerPoint design?
"Without a good knowledge of the place and circumstance, and the content and context of a presentation, it is impossible to say this is "appropriate" and that is "inappropriate.""
Tags: design presentation powerpoint simplicity
Creativity is a discipline of learning
"Most recently I have found myself asking if this vocation can move further, and lead us to create good in our world and communities. Can we do things beyond helping companies communicate?"
Tags: creativity design communication marketing
A look at 'prosumerism' (aka co-creation aka brand democratization) and its effects on design.
Motorola Q: Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
"For a product to feel harmonious the user, the system that surrounds it must be harmonious. No product is outside of a system, though not all products are systems."
Top Designer Says World Cup Design "Just Embarrassing"
Erik Spiekermann, one of Germany's most respected designers, has been openly critical of the design concept for the 2006 World Cup, from the mascot to the logo. He told DW-WORLD.DE why it hasn't been successful.
Tags: soccer logos design germany interviews
Bruce Sterling on media, design, fiction, and the future
Tags: design culture environment scifi technology
Design. Architecture. Football.
"And it's this tension which is reminiscent of adaptive design ideas discussed here previously; that design isn't the end of the process, but the beginning; that interpretation and improvisation will define the end-product, not the original design."
Tags: design architecture soccer
"Basically, unconscious design is design where there is no “conversation with the situation�. Sometimes we make design decisions based out of habit; we are simply following the norm; or we just never asked ourselves “Why?�."
How Public Prediction Markets Simplify Concepts about Buying and Selling Events and Ideas
Tags: design ia economics gambling markets wisdomofcrowds socialsoftware
A look at postal service design from around the world.
Tags: design
After stormy discussion CSSBloom team has chosen the best 20 blog designs.
Tags: design blogs lists bestof inspiration
Where Visual Design Meets Usability
An Interview with Luke Wroblewski, Part 1
Tags: design usability interviews
A "menu engineer" based in Palm Springs, Calif., Rapp works with restaurants across the country and around the world to transform innocent lists of meals into profitable, user-friendly sales tools.
The Mysterious Power of Context
"A good logo, according to Paul Rand, provides the 'pleasure of recognition and the promise of meaning.'"
50 ways to become a better designer
The way you work can have a huge impact on your creative success. We present the best advice from leading designers on every stage of the creative process, so that you can keep clients satisfied and make the most of your talents
Tags: design tips photoshop illustrator lists creativity
"Like it or not, fair or not, correct or not… All first impressions matter. You make them about everything and so do your clients and prospects."
Tags: design business marketing
Wheelchairs given design makeover
A designer who has spent most of his career working on parts for Formula One cars has come up with a new, off-road wheelchair.
Tags: design innovation health
A Grand Old Flag And Very Modern Art
"Plenty of rigorous abstraction from the 1960s shares the hard edges, asymmetries, unusual proportions and unlikely color combinations of the American flag."
"In this article PingMag introduces a cross-section of all sorts of balls: from the official FIFA final ball, to designer balls, DIY balls, soccer ball graphics, football food and the matching bra."
"In a consumer driven world, money will flow from advertising to service and product development as companies invest in what enables them to deliver a truly exceptional experience."
Architecture and interaction design, via adaptation and hackability
Dan Hill talks about hackability and architecture.
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The evolution of the NetFlix envelope
A look at the changes the NetFlix envelope has gone through in seven years.
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No Instruction Necessary: part 1
Andy Rutledge on affordance: "A common object with an obvious affordance is a glove. When you look at a glove, there appears to be one, and only one way to “use� it."
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Interaction Design Summer Reading List
Nine reading recommendations from the Adaptive Path blog.
What Makes a Good Creative Director?
"Finding the right mesh of talent and interpersonal skills is a very difficult task, which is why good creative directors have been revered  there are so few people who can be creative and manage creative."
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The Road to Hell: Now Paved with Innovation?
Michael Beirut on "the brave new world of spec work."
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"What Apple and Netflix did, while not simple, was straightforward. The value they created came from innovations that dramatically improved the user's experience. They looked hard at the current experience and focused on designing an ideal one."
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A realization of what life is like from the client's point-of-view.
Top Ten Stock Photography Cliches
"What to watch out for when picking photos for your marketing materials"
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"But the more projects I do, the more I realise neat black & white answers don't fit any sort of real world, which means I end up talking more about the context, and feeling like I'm disappointing people and being vague."
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Apple teams up with Nike to help people track their running. You put a little thing in your shoe and connect another to your iPod and it tracks distance, speed and all that good stuff. When you're done running it downloads automatically.
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"This work explores the visual link between information and physical things, specifically around the emerging use of the mobile phone to interact with RFID or NFC. "
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Three great machines and innovation limitation
Scott Berku