Archive for the ‘Design’ Category
Smoking Titles
Friday, December 21st, 2007
I quit smoking in October after smoking a pack a day for 23 years!
There’s some great usage of fonts in the opening sequence of the movie Thank You For Smoking , done by the very talented Shadowplay Studios . Click the animation above to go see the entire opening.
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Landmark Web Design or how I learnt to stop worrying and just build the damn website.
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
A bunch of interesting articles/essays recently, that led to interesting discussions on the topic of timeless web design. All worth a read if you have any involvement in the wonderful wacky world of ‘design‘ and the web.
First Armin Vit writes an essay asking Landmark Web Sites, Where Art Thou? Essentially he asks why no individual web designs/sites have attained any historical significance worthy of being deemed landmarks that lead the way, such as Paul Rand’s IBM Logo.
Dan Saffer posts an interesting unrelated thought on Making Stuff vs Making Stuff Up a day later. He alludes to the problem of creation (thought) and production (implementation) for a designer.
Khoi Vin picks up on both and posts Something’s Missing in Web Design . The interesting points he adds are, “the very best designers are leaving behind the work of actually doing design…” and “that Web design is really boring…”
Joshua Porter picks up on Armin’s initial post and posts a response, Do Canonical Web Designs Exist? His point being, “It’s just that canonical design on the web isn’t as glamorous as some want it to be.”
They are all great reads and the ensuing discussions are absolute fun to read.
As to timeless or landmark web designs, there are many for me, most may not exist anymore, but they did leave a mark on me and is that not the point.
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Now this is a Raft!
Friday, November 16th, 2007
More photos of this Raft by Tod Seelie are here, I’m guessing this is the raft he and his friends are building/built?
This is one of the rafts built for Miss Rockaway Armada .
Art Down the Mississippi, is an article in the NY Times about this event.
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Among Other Things, I’ve Taken Up Smoking
Thursday, September 13th, 2007
Here’s a book cover that caught my eye, it actually makes me want to read this book.
It’s got a lovely sense of odd balance, with the points of the city focusing you downwards toward the serenity of the landscape. The cropping of the landscape as well is very interesting.
As my editor at Business Today, Anand Raman told me once, “If you can make them pick it up off the rack, your job’s been done.”
I’ve also been meaning to link to this website for a while now, if you have any interest in Book Cover Design this is a great resource and a very well done website. As they put it: Covers is dedicated to the appreciation of book cover design.
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Polish Movie Posters
Friday, August 3rd, 2007
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| Chien Andalou | Bachelor Life in a Foreign Country |
There’s 200 of them to view at A Gray Space , worth taking a look.
Dialup warning though they are all on the same page.
via Digg .
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