Design
This is where you will find all the pages tagged Design.
Tina Turner on creativity:
"Sometimes you've got to let everything go -- purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything ... whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out."
Anne Fadiman, Jonathan Lethem, Richard Posner, and others reveal what font they compose in and why
What fonts do authors like to write in? Courier is favourite, apparently.
Jonathan Lethem, Richard Posner, and others reveal their favorite fonts. - - Slate Magazine
Printed Ephemera - a photoset on Flickr
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Typeface
Liberated from monogamy, I became typographically promiscuous. I have since, I think, learned to modulate my behavior — like any substance abuser, I learned that binges are time-consuming, costly, and ultimately counterproductive — but I've never gone back to five-typeface sobriety. Those thousands of typefaces are still out there, but my recovery has required that I become more discriminating and come up with some answers to this seemingly simple question: why choose a particular typeface? Here are thirteen reasons.
Design Observer: writings about design & culture
Winners of the National Design Awards
Apple's Jonathan Ive included. National Design Awards | Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Glenn Reynolds Decries the Loss of Knobs and Buttons in Modern Technology
Not so long ago, if I wanted to adjust the heat in my car, or the volume on my car radio, I could grab a nice, simple knob. Turn it to the right, and the car got warmer, or the radio got louder. Turn it the other way, and the opposite occurred. I could always sense how far I was adjusting things — without ever taking my eyes off the road — because millions of years of evolution have produced a neurological feedback mechanism that lets me know just how much I'm turning my wrist.Easy, effective, intuitive. That's simply good design, right? You'd think. But in most late-model cars, making those kinds of adjustments requires pushing buttons multiple times, or navigating menus within menus, and — almost always — taking your eyes off the road.
Analog vs. Digital - Glenn Reynolds Decries the Loss of Knobs and Buttons in Modern Technology - Popular Mechanics. Via Chris Glass.
Text Generator
Tired of using Lorem Ipsum for dummy text in your latest masterpiece?This text generator has been developed based on years of careful research and is guaranteed to improve even the most lacklustre of designs.
Text Generator. Via Chris Glass.
Why Apple is the best retailer in America
And not just the architecture. Saks, whose flagship is down the street, generates sales of $362 per square foot a year. Best Buy stores turn $930 - tops for electronics retailers - while Tiffany & Co. takes in $2,666. Audrey Hepburn liked Tiffany's for breakfast. But at $4,032, Apple is eating everyone's lunch
Why Apple is the best retailer in America
Apple Ushers in Era of the Fluid UI
The commonality amongst those three is their ability to bring into focus the feature or functionality that you want to use, and fading the rest in the background. The simplicity triggers usage almost intuitively. While these are three Apple products, they portend a new trend, the emergence of a more fluid and active user interface.The fluid UI is the natural evolution. In an era where hyper commoditization is part of doing business, UI and by extension the user experience is the crucial barrier to entry. Apple’s iPhone is a collection of commodity chips, hard drives and whatnot dressed up in a pretty shell. It is the UI that makes it intriguing enough to worth waiting for.
GigaOM - Apple Ushers in Era of the Fluid UI
Miami designer develops GPS shoes
An independent businessman from Miami has developed a pair of shoes with a built-in GPS sensor, which can be used to send a distress signal in case the wearer gets lost or cannot get to his cell phone. The shoes are planned to be available in March.Isaac Daniel created the shoes, which have a built-in 2" x 3" GPS device that is waterproof, shockproof, and can withstand weight of up to 300 pounds. According to Daniel, the main purpose of the embedded sensor is to be able to send out a distress signal with the wearer's precise location.
