I spend a lot of time looking at things. No really, A LOT OF TIME. It makes sense, seeing as I’m a designer by profession. Aside from the obvious, inspiration, I find looking at things is meditative (or maybe it’s the seduction of drone, for me). In any case, it’s something I thoroughly enjoy. So I thought I’d share with you, a few of the places that have been calling my droning gaze.
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Noteboek
Noteboek (English title: Notebook) consists of 4 short experimental films where Evelien Lohbeck tries to confuse the reality. In these films, illusions and expectations are challenged. Evelien Lohbeck is a graduate of the Academy of Arts, St. Joost in the Netherlands.
Brand Evolution Part. 1: Shortcuts to a Successful Redesign
Preparing for a “redesign,” is a discussion topic we feel is long overdue. It’s something we deal with every day at Object Adjective and it’s something we grapple with when consulting clients all the time.
In this, the first of a two part series on brand evolution, I walk through a hypothetical and provide some basic, [...]
inflection {design : content}
Content, moreover getting content, is a constant struggle of the web designer. I think you would be hard pressed to find a designer who would say otherwise. However, getting content isn’t enough. It should be good content, well written, well thought out and friendly to its platform.
Over the years, I’ve learned to take greater liberties [...]
The Principality of Sealand: a design critique
It is the pride and honor of every designer to have the opportunity to work on something that is truly profound. Such opportunities, like designing the Jüdisches Museum, Berlin or the Tube Map for London’s Underground, seldom grace the life of a designer. But, the opportunity to design a country, is one that almost [...]
snuffing the esoteric: articulate about design
It’s a lazy Saturday morning. I woke up, brewed some coffee (helping myself to some more right now), sat down at my computer and started browsing through my RSS feeds. That’s when I came across an article by Adrian Shaughnessy, on Design Observer, Look and Feel / Nip and Tuck.
It’s kind of a silly thing [...]
a FONT alike
The search for new sans-serif fonts is always a chore for me. Finding a sans-serif font, that has the right balance and play in its characters and does not assign meaning or dominate the stage, is perhaps the great challenge of the graphic designer. This is why, time and time again, I return to Helvetica.
That [...]
Edwardiascopic
On Friday night I attempted step outside of the world of digital media and information superhighways and attended the The Edwardian World’s Faire, here in San Francisco.
The Edwardian period fascinates me for the fashion and adventure our modern lives seem so miserably to lack. The outing we planned, was intended as a brief departure into [...]
Geekipedia
Every so often you come across something that conveys a point so well, you have to stop what you are doing and take note. So when we received this months WIRED and supplemental Geekipedia, I was very excited.
So what’s wrong with this picture?
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