Monthly Archives: July 2008
Differences between design disciplines
The differences between designers from different disciplines is not one of process or evaluation, or even the specific interests and abilities of the designer, but of constraints. Product designers work with the constraints offered by every day objects, graphic designers with 2D mediums and typography, interior designers with the relationship between people and space while [...]
End of 2D interface elements?
I‘ve been looking at ideas based around 3D information systems recently, as research for a project I might be working on this month. While I haven’t finished researching, one of the topics that has got me interested is the redundancy of interactive elements such as icons and scroll bars when navigating a 3D space. In [...]
Advertising and interactive inspiration
A cute and interesting animation based on generative programming so that every character that rides along the travelator is unique — celebrating the diversity of people seen at Heathrow T5.
TED Sphere creates a 3d space to navigate content from the TED conferences based on semantical compatibility. It’s a shame you can’t click and drag to move [...]
Emotional Design
Continuing from my last post hopefully I’ve made a clear point of how important it is to understand the reader when creating any form of graphic communication. A reader’s behaviour provides a strategy for creating successful design work. Design must evoke a response in order to communicate a clear and powerful message that resonates with [...]
Inspiration from future and past