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 […]
Jun 08
Visual Rhetoric
From ten years of working in communication design (specialising in digital and interactive) and thousands of dollars spent on universities, books and conferences I think one of the main things I’ve learnt and now base my work on is that visual meaning is personal to the reader, based on their previous experiences — whether that […]
May 08
Bob Greenberg’s D&AD lecture
Bob Greenberg, co-founder of R/GA spoke at a D&AD lecture last night that I attended with a few friends. Bob spent the first half of the lecture giving an overview of what R/GA is and the history of the company, then played some videos of case studies, most of which I had seen before. I […]
Feb 08
Communication Design And Commodification
(republished from 2005) The evolution of graphic design from purely aesthetics to meeting functional, cultural, social and production requirements, helped to develop the change and growth in consumerism. Even in its early days graphic design helped advertise and separate products from one another, benefiting consumerism. Graphic design then brought in product innovation so more products could […]