Directed by Edward Salier it is so good to have Massive Attack back on the scene its been about a minute since I was in a karmacoma.
Massive Attack-Splitting the Atom-directed by Edouard Salier from edouard salier on Vimeo.
Love the new iPad. Why do I feel like I am being asked to stand and be counted?
Yes, they will add multitasking, yes they will add a front facing camera. Google voice and the iPad anyone? Add bluetooth and we’re done. I see the possibility in the iPad and future revisions. This is the starting point for a new genre and way of using the internet. Notice I didn’t say computer. This is firmly an internet tablet. Most everything you would use it for would be connected to the internet or your file storage at home. This is primarily a content access device not a content creation device. That’s how to think of it. That’s the iPad.
Yes, I do like and have tried to champion OpenSource software. How can I square that with my love of Apple? I’m complicated. I’m a human being. I also believe in a mixed economy and mixed nuts. I love our National Health Service and the National Theatre, but I also love Fortnum and Mason’s and Hollywood movies. “Apple,” Steve Jobs said, “stands at the intersection of Technology and the Liberal Arts.” This statement confused non-Americans who are not familiar with the phrase Liberal Arts (you can look it up here) but I think shows the fundamental cultural seriousness of Jobs and Apple which in turn explains their huge success and impact. He might perhaps more accurately have said that Apple stands at the intersection of Technology, the Liberal Arts and Commerce.”
Stephen Fry succinctly quells the arguments with Apple.
Scans from the seminal work of Emil Ruder Typography inside this flickr set of Sebastien Hayez.
See also:
ISO50 has a great post about his poster design.
www.designers-books.com for some excellent scans and photos of more great design books destined for your shelf.
People hailed the small hand held video recorder has the new revolution but the ability for photographers or ‘still cinematographers’ to interchange lenses relatively cheaply is the actual ‘revolution’. We are starting to see some amazing videos come from these photographers. Those people used to selective focus and lighting are the heralds of a new age of cinematography.
Verkostotunnistin / Social Networking from A. Siuvatti on Vimeo.
Don’t get me wrong there has been some amazing videos shot with these small portable ‘camcorders’ but the true visionaries have yet to take up their SLR cameras.
“Design is the exploration of the conceivable future” to paraphrase Will Evans at Semantic Foundry.
It seems that 2009 has been the year of the wireframe, searches reveal a sea of websites now devoted to the practice, SXSW panels were held on it, web based tools are being debated. In the end the how and materials used are meaningless and this cuts right to the chase, the ‘why’ of the wireframe.
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It demands it’s sacrifice! Via. Boing Boing.
Following up on my Bing post regarding Google design. It seems that others share my opinion that Google needs a visual refresh. Redesign Google and win a MacBook Air.
Really digging that tagline mask effect on Webmynds homepage.
Linkbait via TechCrunch.
Beautiful work from Italian designer Pierluigi Longo. You can also check out his Flickr.
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I think google should be worried. Microsoft is going against googles whole design sense. They are thinking people want a change in whats become comfortable and sometimes comfortable can seem old. This is fresh its slightly like every other site users have visited.
Using the googlesque coloring is really a headfake towards the users. We’ve all been to sites that have used the google sear engine embedded results with their skin. This really looks like that.
I do like the related searches and search history. thats a nice feature to turn history on and off right from that section.
The whole layout means Microsoft is banking on drawing eyeballs to the left side of the page so they can sell ads in the All Results section.
The images results is really well done. Google’s page looks cluttered and haphazard in comparison. The thumbnail resizing is clean. this really is much nicer than googles.
Design will be the death of google.
Trying out some designs for a possible brand of my freelance efforts as Grand Comrade.
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Main Entry: 1flour·ish
Pronunciation: \ˈflər-ish, ˈflə-rish\
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English florisshen, from Anglo-French fluriss-, stem of flurir, florir, from Vulgar Latin *florire, alteration of Latin florēre, from flor-, flos flower
Date: 14th century
intransitive verb
1 : to grow luxuriantly : thrive
2 a : to achieve success : prosper (a flourishing business) b : to be in a state of activity or production (flourished around 1850) c : to reach a height of development or influence
3 : to make bold and sweeping gestures
Given the mission to redesign the Drudge Report as a friendly competition setup by Geoff Stearns.
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I really liked watching how he uses Illustrator. I’m a firm believer there is an art to our interaction with the software akin to the brushstrokes of a painter. The way someone uses the software , I think, is part of the art. You see him pull and push the vector objects. Amazing.
Science Machine from Chad Pugh on Vimeo.
So this has become an increasing concern of mine. It first started for me with “The New York Times”. Someone would link to an article I would blindly click it to only be confronted with a logon screen to read the goddamn news. It’s now happeneing with increasing regularity. I use Google News to get a snapshot of whats going on and many more Newspapers are requiring registration and not just the large ones. The most recent was “The Austin American Statesman” for an article on the police action at SXSW linked by Abstract Dynamics.
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Wow, 1000 skies has given us all something beautiful. When outside I’m always looking at clouds and the sky.
WaVE, or rather Walk-through Virtual Environments are displayed upon fog. Yeah you read that right…
“The basic components of the screen are a laminar, non-turbulent airflow, and a thin fog screen (or any particles) injected into and inside a laminar flow. Created this way, the fog screen is an internal part of the laminar airflow, and remains thin, crisp, and protected from turbulence. When the screen is formed, images can be either rear– or front-projected onto it. The screen can be translucent (as in the images below) or fully opaque. Our current fog screen prototype already proves the operating principle with excellent results. “
Joshua Davis, aka. Maruto, praystation, once-upon-a-forest has updated his site with a new piece entitled A firebird began to visit the garden. And it’s about time. The design community has needed a shot in the arm and in my opinion has been aimless and needs a leader or leaders to step up and represent. The same people that inspired us during the late 90’s and the dot.kizzom boom should do the same now.
It feels like we’ve been in the dark ages the last couple of years without an influence. Seeing and working with creative people leads to innovation and inspiration. Without that there is no impetus for companies to replace what they have unless they see a cultural change. If we want to expand our markets and get more business the key is to create a buzz and awareness of what we as graphic designers can do. I firmly believe that creativity doesn’t evolve in a vacuum but requires collaboration.
ArsTechnica is having a discussion about fixed vs. variable width website layouts. They have a poll that is currently showing a wide margin in favor of variable width. After reading through the forum postings thus far there are some very vitriol ridden opinions for variable width that mostly center around the viewer having ultimate control over what they see. Some posts made cases for fixed width designs that centered around showing content appropriately and allowing experience control.
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There are certain things that most good designers know and often complain about around the sushi bar whilst guzzling gin and tonics to beat the heat. However my new best friend for the week Wil Harris has decided to take some affirmative action and annotate the bugaboos we all have in “How to (and not to) work with a designer”. there’s excellent advice in there not only for potential clients but also designers who may not know the right questions to ask.
A nod of my monkeypox laden head to Charlie Park for the link.
And you thought you made logo’s…Raymond Loewy
‘between two products equal in price, function, and quality, the better looking will outsell the other.’ he proved that the success of a product is as dependent on aesthetics as function. ‘the goal of design is to sell,’ he said. ‘and to drive the point home, he added, ‘the loveliest curve I know is the sales curve.’
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“Artbots: The Robot Talent Show is an international art exhibition for robotic art and art-making robots.”
“Now in its second year, ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show will take place on July 12th and 13th from noon to 6:00pm at Eyebeam Gallery in Manhattan’s Chelsea art district. Featuring the work of 23 artists and groups from six countries, the show is a hybrid combining aspects of both a juried art exhibition and a traditional talent show. Participants include robots that draw, paint, sculpt, sing, dance, and play musical instruments, as well as many with talents that are a bit harder to pin down; you might call them robotic sculpture or even cybernetic performance artists!”
Since seeing the graffiti painting robot Hektor this style of art has intrigued me only in part by the outcome but more so the expansion of technology as art. Hektor is a beautifully simple and elegant design and is compelling to watch in action.
I just recently was signing up for an account on a major corporations website (Apple) and the form could not have been simpler and quick to use. However.
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Jonathan Ive has been named as Designer of the Year by the London Design Museum for his work at Apple over the past year but is more like recognition for the past 6. As a non Mac user I envy the design and style of the Apple systems, but not the price. The iMac and Cube are actual things of beauty that will definitely end up in museums as well as modern art galleries. At only 36 he has sealed his reputation as a designer to be respected and admired. It’s a shame that the cube is no longer available, if it had the processing power the pc’s had there’s no doubt it would still be on the market. Perhaps with the upcoming chip change to the IBM PowerPC 970 we’ll see a revival.
