Khoi Vinh's Blog, page 72

Glaser Stencil

British designer Rick Banks, founder of Face37, based his new typeface F37 Glaser Stencil on this poster designed by Milton Glaser in 1967. I’d be the last to deny that Glaser is a paragon of the design industry but some of his more flamboyant works, like this poster, leave me less thrilled than others. Nevertheless,…

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Only Fish Fall from the Sky

One of my favorite illustrators, Leif Parsons, has written and illustrated his first children’s book: “Only Fish Fall from the Sky.” The book is a fantastical dreamscape in which “a boy wakes from a marvelous dream to find the world is not quite as he left it; raindrops are falling from the sky, instead of…

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Why iPad?

Last week I questioned whether Apple is a good steward for the iPad platform, but one thing seems clear: the Apple marketing team is working harder at differentiating the device than any other group in the company. In spite of what I would call relative indifference on the part of the software and hardware teams,…

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The State of Design Tools: An Unscientific Survey

Last week, along with a few of the folks from Adobe with whom I’ve been working on Adobe Comp CC, I visited a handful of design teams at companies here in New York City. The original inspiration for the meetings was to share some of the thinking that’s driving Adobe’s new creativity software (like Comp…

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100 Days of Fonts

Each day for one hundred days, designer Do-hee Kim is designing and coding a creative showcase for two or more Google Fonts. This is the kind of project that many designers set out to create for themselves, but they often fall short on developing the actual content they’re designing with. Kim appears to be using…

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Music Was Better Back Then

Spotify engineer Ajay Kalia did an analysis of individual listening data from U.S. Spotify users and combined it with artist popularity data from audio analytics company The Echo Nest (also owned by Spotify) to determine when people stop listening to contemporary mainstream music. What he found was: …while teens’ music taste is dominated by incredibly…

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No Shame

Spanish advertising and design agency Lola created this incongruously—maybe even inappropriately—elegant package for ten “iconic” porn movies as a self-initiated side project. I asked them over email what inspired the project and their answer was simply: “The boundaries of shame.” I’ll leave it to others to parse the semantics of this project, but it’s hard…

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iPad Sales on a Downward Trajectory

When Apple released their quarterly estimates earlier in the week, the thing that stood out for me immediately was the revelation that iPad sales declined about 23% from the same quarter last year. Later in the week, two blog posts, one from Dr. Drang and one from Kieran Healy, applied some statistical expertise to show…

Nicole Jacek for Adobe Comp CC

This video shows German-born, California-based graphic designer Nicole Jacek using Adobe Comp CC to design a cover for Good Magazine. Jacek begins the project with her iPad on a flight, right on her tray table (with room to spare), and then, back at her desk, sends the work to her desktop, where it opens up…

Getting Your Demo on the Screen When on the Road

After a long spell of mostly sticking to my desk, lately I’ve found myself doing demos again at various speaking engagements, meetups and workshops, showing off both Wildcard and Adobe Comp CC. Going on the road and making presentations at various offices and conference rooms was something I used to do quite a bit, back…