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October 14, 2013
Grid-Based Relaunches
A showcase for sites designed with a strong emphasis on the typographic grid. I’m not sure I remember the original version, but this redesign is sharp and it features some wonderful work. Read more here.
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Nielsen Norman Group’s iOS 7 User-Experience Appraisal
The venerable usability experts weigh in:
“Is iOS 7 fatally flawed? The short answer is no. Simply because there is no such thing as fatally flawed designs: we can always learn from mistakes. What’s surprising is that we don’t learn from someone else’s mistakes: Apple ignored some of the hurdles that Microsoft experienced with flat design and swipe ambiguity in Windows 8. We still have to see whether Apple’s strong design guidelines will protect most app designers from not getting lost in the flat 2D world. Early experience with applications redesigned for iOS 7 is fairly negative: several have worse usability than their iOS 6 versions.”
Read the full report here.
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October 11, 2013
How Woody Allen’s Movie Posters Reflect His Films
At Film.com, a smart, design-centric analysis of Allen’s work .
“Typography takes a more prominent role, with actor names highlighted more than what you’d find in your typical film poster, while the imagery used is often simple, with a single still photograph highlighting a mood or through a graphic symbol that brand’s a film’s identity. Lavishness is underplayed, with the few visual flourishes mostly being afforded to the film’s title.”
Read the full article at Film.com.
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The Wire Poster Project
I’m a fan of designer and illustrator Oliver Munday and an even bigger fan of “The Wire,” so I’m surprised I don’t like this project as much as I expected to.
“The Wire Poster Project consists of 60 typographic posters, each one representing one of the 60 different epigrams preceding every episodes of HBO’s critically acclaimed series, ‘The Wire.’ Produced by graphic artist Oliver Munday, each purchase will benefit the Baltimore Urban Debate League. ‘Wire’ fans might remember the organization from the series’ fifth season when (just after being taken in by Howard “Bunny” Colvin) character Namond Brice gives an award-winning speech about HIV and AIDS in Africa in a BUDL event. Each WPP purchase will help real, at-risk kids like Namond Brice in Baltimore.”
The posters are very well designed but somehow don’t feel particularly true to the source material. Here are the first six.
The posters go on sale starting 14 Oct. See all sixty of them at The Wire Poster Project.
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October 10, 2013
The Art of Clean Up
Swiss comedian and artist Ursus Wehrli has a book called “The Art of Clean Up: Life Made Neat and Tidy.” It was released earlier this year but apparently I missed it entirely, until now. The book is full of photos of things that Wehrli has reorganized.
Back in March, The New York Times wrote about Wehrli.
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October 8, 2013
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Design Is One
This ninety-minute documentary, directed by Kathy Brew and Roberto Guerra, looks at the career and fifty-year marriage of hugely influential Modernist designers Lella and Massimo Vignelli. It starts a week-long run this Friday at the IFC Center in New York City.
Learn more about the movie and watch its trailer at its companion Web site or buy tickets.
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October 3, 2013
Lego Calendar
There is a long history on the Internet of novel, post-adolescent Lego creations, but I find this one to be particularly nifty.
“Created by Vitamins Design, The Lego calendar is a wall mounted time planner that the team invented for their studio. It’s made entirely of Lego and while others have used Lego to visualize complex logistics systems in a simple and tangible way, Vitamins’ solution allows you take a photo of it with a smartphone; all of the events and timings are synchronized to an online, digital calendar.”
I imagine it must be kind of inconvenient to have to physically update the calendar, but these sorts of Lego creations are rarely about the practical.
Read a write-up of the project here.
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October 2, 2013
The Architecture of Density
German-born photographer Michael Wolf’s photograph of Hong Kong urbanism are beautiful and horrifying. They are architectural abstractions of the city’s towering apartment buildings and the endless pattern of windows that cover them.
His entire portfolio is stunning, really. See it here.
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October 1, 2013
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