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Job Opening Spotlight on Digg

This is the second installment in my ongoing series highlighting interesting job openings for designers. (See the first one on Toca Boca’s opening for a design director here.) This spotlight focuses on the social news site Digg, which in its hey day was a breakthrough hub for news discovery that drove tremendous traffic. By the…

The International Flag of Planet Earth

Swedish designer Oskar Pernefeldt’s graduation project for the Beckmans College of Design is an impressively professional proposal for a single flag to represent the entirety of the world we live on. His design for the flag is smart and quite plausible, but the reasoning he puts forth for it, outlined in the video above, is…

Guillaume Kurkdjian’s Electronic Items

Various devices charmingly rendered in isometric views by Guillaume Kurkdjian, who also produces a Tumblr of weekly animated GIFs. Though they’re focused on very different subject matter, are executed in an entirely different medium, and are animated instead of static, their warm color palettes and understated presentation remind me of the work of painter Wayne…

Offscreen Magazine No. 11

Kai Brach’s Offscreen, the defiantly print-based magazine “about the people behind bits and pixels” has just announced its eleventh issue, which includes an extensive interview with yours truly. I initially demurred when Brach asked to me to take part, but after we exchanged some emails, I relented when he assured me that it would be…

We Had a Logo and a Brick Wall

…and so we painted the one on the other. That’s my colleague Stephen Meszaros, by the way. He’s going to give a comprehensive talk about how we designed Wildcard next Tuesday evening at the New York Digital Product Design Meetup. You should join us! More info at meetup.com. + Share Facebook Twitter Google+

UI Reel for Avengers: Age of Ultron

London-based creative agency Territory Studio created “more than 200 screens and 80 minutes of unique animations across all 11 sets” for this year’s won’t-be-denied cinematic blockbuster “Avengers: Age of Ultron.” Their hypothetical user interfaces are elaborately constructed and intricately animated, and they’re clearly higher in quality than similar AfterEffects projects that can be had for…

Interview with Nikki Sylianteng About Her Parking Signs Project

A little more than a year ago I posted an article about designer Nikki Sylianteng’s To Park or Not to Park project, in which she undertook a guerrilla campaign to bring her reworked, demonstrably clearer versions of real parking signs to the streets of New York City. At that time, the project was already attracting…

Illustrator Michela Buttignol

I’m a fan of the work of Italian-born New York illustrator Michela Buttignol. Her aesthetic is spare and contemplative, though not cold or impersonal. Her simple, rough-hewn tableaus feel to me like stills from a stop-motion film that Fellini might have directed with Matisse’s paper cut-outs. More at michelabuttignol.com. + Share Facebook Twitter Google+

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Reader Comments on The State of Design Tools

Last week I published a post titled “The State of Design Tools: An Unscientific Survey” that summarized some of the trends I saw on a mini-tour of five design teams here in New York City (plus one public event). It generated a lot of interesting comments, both about the trends and tools I mentioned and…

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Young Feathers

Stunning video of daredevil and inventor Yves Rossy and skydiving champion Vince Reffet soaring over Dubai and environs via jetpack. I said via jetpack. More information at jetman.com. + Share Facebook Twitter Google+

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