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.
the wanderlust.net by Anthony Stonehouse
Sep 2009
The most important thing I learned about design
One 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. This […]
Nov 2008
Classic information design
Here’s a few beautiful older interfaces in the form of gauges, switches and buttons that I’ve come across while undertaking some preliminary research for an upcoming project. There aren’t many interfaces in production now that reach this level of craftsmanship. JVC HR-3300 (1976) Jaeger Le Coultre compass camera (1930s) Corvette (1958) Nakamichi 700 Tri Tracer tape deck (1973) Sinclair wrist […]
Jul 2008
Games lead UI movement towards complete diegetic interfaces
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 […]
Jul 2008
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 […]
Jun 2008
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 […]
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