I‘ve been to loads of conferences and workshops where a speaker will demonstrate new features of software with a quick tutorial. Of course they are always artificially happy, and make it all seem really easy. Maybe that’s why I find this so funny, but I can’t stop laughing. Here’s the latest episode, if you like […]
the wanderlust.net by Anthony Stonehouse
Feb 2008
Geeky movies, mmm, tasty
Gotham (designed by Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones) is a typeface I’ve been quite fascinated with lately. I’ve used it for the title graphic of this blog, and for a recent branding project I designed. It’s almost like a modern version of Eurostile (another of my favourites), with it’s geometric structure and dominate, almost industrial, […]
Feb 2008
iPhone UI review
Edward Tufte reviews the iPhone interface in this 56mb m4v video. He generally seems to think they’ve done a good job, especially as they’ve managed to remove most of the ‘computer administrative debris’ on content sections and provide rich information thanks to the high resolution screen and zoom-able interface. It avoids a deep hierarchy of […]
Feb 2008
Great inspirational lectures
TED (which stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an annual conference held in California. It features several lectures by industry leaders within those fields. They publish shorter, edited versions of the lectures on their site. One of which is Sagmeister’s happiness lecture. I saw Sagmeister give a 2 hour lecture in 2004 in Melbourne, very […]
Feb 2008
Structural elements of graphic design: Typography
This is one of six articles I’ve written on the structural elements of graphic design. It is based on my research and intended to give a broad explanation of the basic concept of each element, this one being type. The biggest change in typography, after the development of the letterpress and hot metal type, has most […]
Feb 2008
Codification
Design needs to make use of codes in order to form communication, whether it follows traditional codes or breaks them it is still making an association with certain values, attitudes, beliefs, assumptions and practices held by the reader. A lot of these values are not controlled by the reader, but rather by social and cultural beliefs. […]
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