Designers & consumerism
The evolution of graphic design over the past 100 years from purely aesthetics to meeting functional, cultural, social and production requirements has helped to develop the change and growth of consumerism.
Album covers — made in London
A collection of impressive Album cover designs all created by designers based in London, UK.
Adopting radical design
Radical new approaches to design are often controversial, especially if they challenge a ‘traditional’ model — where many are instantly dismissed by their potential audience as being ugly. I recently experienced this while looking at purchasing a new scooter. It’s an interesting process and made me wonder.. are we missing out on mass improvements within [...]
Light and texture
Dancing light, transformation, distortion, animation, blending tangible with digital, all these things fascinate me about projection — I especially love projected type. Recently I’ve come across a few inspirational examples of projection and also some really lovely wallpapers.
The amazing projection projects created by UrbanScreen.
Hirzberger Events: Digital Wallpaper.
Tobias Battenberg’s projected Akzidenz Grotesk.
Watermarks Project: Projecting Future Water Levels [...]
The most important thing I learnt from being a designer
Oen of the primary theories within design that became clearer to me as I progressed through my career was that visual rhetoric is personal to the reader, and is based on their previous experiences — with the medium, their culture, always a combination of the two and more than often includes other influences too. [...]
Review: my new PS3 slim vs my XBox 360