Archive for the 'Design' Category

art and design

We just posted an interview with Matt and Sam of The Artist’s Guide on Hear, Hear.
A quote from Core77’s excellent interview with Rob Walker,
Of course, this is from me as an outsider, but the thing I hear from the design world is “we are artists who solve problems.” But the problem with that is the [...]

phone card designs

“Everyone is trying to make their (prepaid phone) card stand out,” Carson (Harvey Carson of Pentagon Graphics, not to be mistaken with Pentagram) says - and if that involves a design that some might consider rather didactic, or even ugly, well, so be it.
From an article by Rob Walker, who wrote about about the design [...]

fashion / design

One of my favorites things about NYC is its unlimited resources for designers. We have great museums, a lot of galleries, way too many hip bookstores, and weekly design conferences (or so it seems). This past weekend I went to an AIGA NY event, Body/Language. It was a full day of interesting [...]

zipsters news

I’m a big fan of Zipcar. Good idea, great service, and the people there seem to really care about the customer’s experience. Basically it’s a membership car rental service, but instead of renting for a full day, you get to rent for just the hours you need, and you get charged by the [...]

darfur wall

The numbers 1 to 400,000 cover the 40 panels of The Darfur Wall. Each number represents a person killed in Darfur. By donating $1 or more you can light a number, turning it from dark gray to brilliant white. As we light the wall, we acknowledge the importance of each life lost, [...]

hot or not? apple.com

Sahadeva sounds off: “I’m not one to criticize, but apple’s website, both its store and its general experience, pales in comparison to their physical stores in terms of experience.”
Apple’s website surely lacks that ‘omph’ (or ‘YO’ if you’re a Randy Jackson kind of guy) of their physical store. But I remember going on [...]

news around the web

Got a news update from Belgium web design studio, Group 94 this morning, announcing an update to their temporary homepage,

This is the second incarnation of their temporary homepage, with the same format of a video narration by their project manager Tamara Schauvliege. And as she talks about their new work, links appear over the [...]