April 2010
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“Good design is innovative.
Good design makes a product useful.
Good design is...”
– Dieter Rams’ ten principles of design
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Bagel in one hand, Photoshop in the other. Result: a big inky mess.
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“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six...”
– Oscar Wilde
via Twitter
Morning all! It’s tumblr tuesday, so any recommendations from you fellow tumblettes would be most appreciated :D
— recommend SC&B
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“Feedback is the worst thing that happened to the internet. Everyone should just...”
– Charlie Brooker (more feedback on feedback at Design Assembly).
Other monochrome blogs are available
— Stuart Hobday
— Anthony Burrill
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excessmemory-deactivated2010042 asked: Grafik or Creative Review?
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Nicholas Felton interview
This interview originally appeared in Gym Class Magazine #4.
Every year since 2005, graphic designer Nicholas Felton has produced a personal annual report, collating and quantifying an assortment of of facts and figures about his life. Illustrating each one with all manner of graphs, tables and beautiful, beautiful maps (including one that could be folded into an icosahedron), he has created an...
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Another lovely map of London
London’s Kerning by NB Studio, just because.
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The Beauty of Maps
By far the best thing on telly this week is The Beauty of Maps on BBC4. Focussing on a small selection of massively important (and in some cases, just downright massive) maps held in the British Library, it discusses the social, theological and political roles that cartography has played throughout history.
A highlight is – of course – the episode on the mapping of London. I could stare at the...
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Creative Review
Well I think it’s fair to say that the new issue of Creative Review (which, when flip-reversed, is also The Annual 2010), is bloody gorgeous. And I bet white lab coats were involved at some point. Looking forward to picking mine up next week from one of the six remaining shops in the UK that actually stock a decent selection of magazines.
— Creative Review
Ffffound
The other day I was fishing around for a Ffffound invite, having completely forgotten that I already had an account. Fortunately, my computer remembered, and so I’ve now finally refound my Ffffound findings (link below).
For those of you unaware of the wonders of Ffffound, it’s basically an image bookmarking site. To set up an account you need an invite from someone. I don’t...
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Anonymous asked: are paperdoll cutouts lame?
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“The programme’s glacial tempo is startlingly alien to the average modern...”
– Charlie Brooker on Mad Men
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“Stop spoiling my future with your slightly more distant one.”
– XKCD
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Splitting the atom
Check out Massive Attack’s astonishing new video, directed by Edouard Salier. Well worth five minutes of your time. And please, if you have any sense at all, you’ll watch it on the biggest screen you can find.
Via Kitsune Noir.
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ArchiveApps
After reading about Creative Review’s new online-only subscription offer, which includes access to an archive of back-issues, it occurred to me that this sort of model could be a real game-changer on the iPad.
So far, there’s been a lot of chat about various magazines bringing out digital editions from this point forward, but not much about the massive potential for offering whole...
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“The single simplest reason why human space flight is necessary is this, stated...”
– Warren Ellis, Wired
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via Twitter
Funny how the cursor pointer appearing in the Wallpaper* logo seemed forward-thinking not so long ago, but on the new App it looks rather quaint.
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“You are trapped on the Earth so you will explode.”
– Jenny Holzer.
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Notes
This little website is just a few weeks old, and so far the response has been blush-inducingly positive. As well as some lovely emails and tweets (thank you, various people!), I’ve also been linked to from all over the place:
— The Casual Optimist — Cosas Visuales — Minimal Sites — Rob McCarthy’s list of inspirational sites — siteInspire — Tumblr’s list of recommended design...
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Do you read me?!
Following my tweetly rant about the dearth of magazine sellers in the UK (outside of London anyway), and the complete and utter uselessness of WHSmith, Mr Hobday pointed me in the direction of a German shop called do you read me?!
In their own words:
“We offer a selected assortment of magazines and readings from around the world. The spectrum ranges from fashion, photography and art,...
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“For the design community print does of course have some redeeming features, one...”
– Design publishing future – print or pixel by Matt Judge at Design Assembly
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Unmarvelous
Fact: this week, 53% of the Internet is made up of iPad reviews.
One of the big talking points is the nice-in-theory Marvel app, which I of course have a problem with it. The thing is, in terms of purchasing/storing comics, a publisher-specific app just seems like a huge backwards step for Apple. If I’m going to buy digital comics, I want them all in one place. Imagine having a separate iTunes...
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Experiment
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“Designing is basically the practice of combining stuff; ideally in ways that...”
– James Webb-Young (via Because I Can). 