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August 29, 2014
Architecture in Product Design
This is the first in a series of posts from Melissa Mandelbaum, designer at Percolate, about lessons to be found in architectural principles for product designers. Here she focuses on the notion of circulation within buildings as it relates to navigation within apps: a building’s given method of circulation—stairs, elevator—directly impacts how we use the…
Steven Soderberg’s Wilderness Years
The Dissolve’s Movie of the Week is Steven Soderbergh’s 1998 classic “Out of Sight,” a small, taut and unyieldingly charming adaptation of an Elmore Leonard novel—that also happened to reignite the director’s career. Its success put Soderbergh back onto Hollywood’s A-list, and in the decade and a half that followed, he went on to create…
August 28, 2014
Inspecting Yosemite’s Icons
Nick Keppol “dissects” the new design language of OS X Yosemite’s icons. There was a lot of speculation that icons in Yosemite would all be super-ellipses or circles. Thankfully that’s not the case. I think Apple’s designers have done a great job building a flexible system that allows for a clean look, but retains the…
Motion Design for iOS
Somewhat unexpectedly, many designers are now would-be animators too, thanks to the transformation wrought by native mobile apps. Mike Rundle’s new book, “Motion Design for iOS,” the latest installment in his “Design Then Code” series, offers the best yet overview of what it means to bring the magic of movement to what has until very…
August 27, 2014
Ikea Is Selling You a Pack of (3D-Rendered) Lies
Well, to be more accurate, they’re using 3D technology to render not only the product images in their famous catalogs, but also the exquisite, idealized and some would say unrealistic “photographic” tableaus of Ikea products in home settings, like this one. That’s right, that image was generated entirely inside some nerd’s computer. This fascinating article…
August 26, 2014
What Is a Card?
Even as the notion of cards as the next big software interaction paradigm continues to gain momentum, it hasn’t gotten much easier to explain to the uninitiated what, exactly, a card is. When asked this question, I find it hard not to ramble on at great length, and even harder to avoid using technical jargon,…
August 25, 2014
F37 Bella
F37 Bella, type designer Rick Banks’s beautiful riff on Didot serif typefaces and a 2012 Tokyo Type Directors Club winner, is currently on sale for half off at HypeForType. Bella comes in three weights—Original, Heavy and Stencil—all of which have luxurious, buxom curves and theatrical hairline (or basically invisible) serifs. In practice, it’s virtually useless…
August 24, 2014
The Illustrated Lauren Bacall
Adrian Curry, in his Movie Poster of the Week column that he writes for MUBI, posted this wonderful tribute to the recently departed film icon Lauren Bacall. Curry makes canny note of a phenomenon that, in retrospect, seems like a tremendous disservice to one of the most magnetic faces in cinematic history: For most of…
August 22, 2014
noPhone
A technology-free alternative to constant hand-to-phone contact. With a thin, light and completely wireless design, the noPhone acts as a surrogate to any smart mobile device, enabling you to always have a rectangle of smooth, cold plastic to clutch without forgoing any potential engagement with your direct environment. Never again experience the unsettling feeling of…
Paul Rand’s “Thoughts on Design” Back in Print
Chronicle Books has put legendary graphic designer Paul Rand’s legendary book “Thoughts on Design” back on bookstore shelves after a long absence. First published in 1947, the short, highly regarded volume has been out of print since the 1970s, and used copies have been very difficult to come by. This new release is priced reasonably,…
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