Wednesday, August 24, 2011

logo design: iEventfoto

I don't know if they'll go with this design, but I am really liking it.

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

A blanket

I really want this blanket so much - I want I want.




















beautiful design. : ) Sometimes I really love things at target.

Friday, August 12, 2011

Slow Design Manifesto

I believe in this - thanks gavin, for the share: via nineteenthirtyfour

Designer Callie Neylan was fed up, like me, with deadlines too soon, designing too fast for clients too unhappy. The question "why can't you design any faster?" really weighs on me. And, as Callie says, heaven forbid they pay you what you deserve, or what you ask for....

She has taken the Slow Food Movement from Italy and modified it for Slow Design. Enjoy:

01 Our forefathers of design, who first designed under the tenets of modernism and in response to an increasingly fast-paced world, nevertheless spent years of slow, careful consideration perfecting and codifying the design disciplines we know today: architecture, industrial design, graphic design, and today, interaction design.

02 With the advent of the information age, we are enslaved by speed and have all succumbed to the same insidious virus: Fast Design, which disrupts our vision, pervades the aesthetics of our workplaces and homes and forces us to look at ugly things.

03 A firm defense of good, well-thought out design and opposition to cheap templates, bad typography, malignant form, easy solutions, and unappreciative clients is the only way to oppose the universal folly of Fast Design.

04 May suitable doses of guaranteed visual pleasure and slow, long-lasting enjoyment resulting from a slowly-designed, well-designed thing preserve us from the contagion of the multitude who mistake frenzy for efficiency.

05 Our defense should begin in the studios and design schools with Slow Design. Let us rediscover the fruits of thoughtful concepting, adequate rounds of revisions, and respect for our discipline and banish the degrading effects of Fast Design.

06 In the name of productivity, Fast Design has changed our way of looking and threatens our user experiences and visual literacy. So Slow Design is now the only truly progressive answer.

07 That is what real culture is all about: developing taste rather than demeaning it. And what better way to set about this than an international exchange of experiences, knowledge, projects (are you with me, fellow Good Designers)?

08 Slow Design guarantees more beautiful, pleasurable, useful communication and objects.
So amazing.... with a Massimo Vignelli quote at the end: “The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.”

On to some more very slow, careful design.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

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