Re-Design Is a Good Idea, Maybe

Wed 15 Aug 200109:37 PM

“Design is like a corpse — beautifully laid out but not going anywhere.” Adbusters has a new design issue out, which takes to task the motivation and complicity of today’s designing class. Maybe not exactly a must-read, but probably a should-read.

Obscure Object of Design

Wed 8 Aug 200101:35 AM

For its pure and obscure kind of design styling, dform(one).shiftfunc has fascinated me for days now. Among its triumphs is its ambient motion and quasi-ambient soundtrack, if only insofar as I’m happy to leave it running idly on my screen just so I can enjoy its intricate yet unspecific beauty. An impressive end unto itself.

New Method

Fri 3 Aug 200112:03 AM

Method just re-launched Method.com, and it’s probably the smartest, most tasteful site from a design shop ever. Make sure to see the case studies.

They Rule

Tue 17 Jul 200105:13 PM

This is a staggering site, the first in a long time to jolt me with excitement about the world of design and its relevance in modern society. Not only is it designed simply and beautifully, but it favorably represents the enormous potential of design to create tremendous windows of understanding from oblique data sources. “They Rule” is a dynamic representation of the intricate relationships shared by the men and women behind America’s most powerful companies. It’s a Flash presentation driven by a database on the backend that allows users to not only explore these relationships, but submit additional information — to add to the collective knowledge base. It’s a wonderful piece of work, but it will make your stomach cringe with a kind of horrible realization that we’s mostly all just peons.

Kottke.org

Thu 5 Jul 200109:15 PM

A kind of weird thing happened to me at work when a client asked me to make some type smaller. So I went to Hi-Type and found Silkscreen.

Which lead me to the home page of the author, JasonKottke. It’s one of the nicest personal Web sites I’ve seen; low on clutter and pretension, high on design smarts. Okay,maybe that’s not such a weird story, but it was a clever way of getting those links in there, no?

Get Paid a Little or a Lot

Tue 3 Jul 200105:28 PM

Scott McCloud has an interesting explication of micropayment possibilities over at The Comic Reader.

The City in Time/Space

Tue 19 Jun 200111:15 PM

Tufte Goes Online

Mon 4 Jun 200112:28 PM

Andre the giant has a posse, and Edward Tufte has a Web site.

Technically Beautiful

Sat 19 May 200101:09 AM

Second (or Third) First Things First

Mon 7 May 200102:36 AM

Adbusters is holding a re-design contest for its First Things First initiative, which last year united “six of the design industry’s most influential publications” under a single manifesto that, ahem, “set the design world on fire.”

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Category Archives: Design

Re-Design Is a Good Idea, Maybe

Obscure Object of Design

New Method

They Rule

Kottke.org

Get Paid a Little or a Lot

The City in Time/Space

Tufte Goes Online

Technically Beautiful

Second (or Third) First Things First

Khoi Vinh’s Web site