Tag Archives: design
AIGA + Stefan Sagmeister
AIGA conference procedings are available; many huge PDFs, audio & video files, and interesting little sketches I guess you had to be there for to really get. Some of my favorites: Ellen Lupton’s Typophilia: Love, Death and Typography” PDF (33mb) and Stefan Sagmeister’s “Design and Happiness” PDF (253mb) or MP3 (36mb). (Even more Sagmeister: Hillmancurtis has [...]
Computational Information Design
“The ability to collect, store, and manage data is increasing quickly, but our ability to understand it remains constant. In an attempt to gain better understanding of data, fields such as information visualization, data mining and graphic design are employed, each solving an isolated part of the specific problem, but failing in a broader sense: [...]
design encyclopedia
From the UnderConsideration folks (who also do the excellent Speak Up) comes the fascinating design encyclopedia. They describe it as, “a growing, collaborative resource that describes, tracks and explains culture, commerce, politics, media, sports, brands – everything possible, really – through design.” If you prefer paragraphs of explanation, there’s a longer about page available. It’s [...]
Made in the USA
“GOOD IDEA + HARD WORK = UNTOLD RICHES”
“Made In The USA will introduce the world to real people with real inventions and high hopes – people like the small town couple who mortgaged their home to finance an automatic pet groomer, or the college student who dropped out to pursue his dream of a video [...]
Designing for the User Experience
“Then it went into a great case study about redesigning a library system. It was one of those ones where you sit and think “I want that job…”. The slides from this are going to be available at www.marcrettig.com/uxweek and when they’re up there later today I storngly recommend you go and have a look [...]
Building a Fixed Gear Bicycle
Came across this nice pictorial while shopping for parts on Craigslist. I think I need a new category for “making things” or “the mechanics of creativity” or something. And definitely one for fixed gear bikes. My personal fixie, incidentally, is built from a vintage 1970 Motobecane; pics to come someday. Before & after from the [...]
Ambidextrous Magazine
“Ambidextrous Magazine is the design journal of the nascent Stanford d.school. It is a magazine for the wider design community, which includes engineers and ethnographers, psychologists and philosophers. Rather than focusing on promoting product, Ambidextrous exposes the people and processes involved in design.
“Ambidextrous is a forum for the cross-disciplinary, cross-market community of people with an [...]
On Being and Deliciousness with Wil Shipley
“It’s been awhile since we’ve had a nice chewable interview on the site, and I’m pleased to offer up a special treat: Wil Shipley of Delicious Monster, makers of Delicious Library.”
Don’t miss the very interesting PDF download at the conclusion of the interview: “Throughout the interview, I’ve included little shots of Delicious Library throughout its [...]
The Ten Faces of Innovation