I found this post by Andreas Markdalen (twitter.com/youthprojects) on Frog Design’s The Visual Design Dept. blog on design mind quite interesting. Here he discusses how design and design thinking can benefit from Chris Wallace’s (aka Biggie Smalls) creative process in constructing his raps. In his post, Markdalen outlines five areas that designers can use to create…More
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Updated Post: Film On Charles and Ray Eames and the Eames Office
Charles and Ray Eames are clearly two of the most influential designers of the previous century. This film looks not only at their pivotal work, but also looks at their personal relationship and how they collaborated on some the most important designs of the 20th Century. It can be seen in theaters and on PBS.…More
Designing for Mobile Devices (via AIGASF)
Designing for Mobile | AIGA SF Interactive Chats View more presentations from aigasf Great presentation by the SF Chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Artists last week. The demand for design for mobile platforms is growing at a lightening speed. There is a great need for those of us teaching in Multimedia Studies programs…More
Thanking Steve Jobs for “thinking differently”
Okay, here’s my tribute to the genius of Steve Jobs and thanking him for being a pentacle of the “think different” principle. By creating the Apple Macintosh computer, he and Steve Wozniak changed my life, turning me into a geeky girl, and moving me into the world of graphic design, which I easily added to…More
Design is About Solving Problems | Design Informer
One of my Twitter colleagues, Jan Jursa of Information Architecture Television (@IATV on Twitter) shared this interesting post by James Young on Design Informer (See link below) and I thought I would share it. It is always good to step back and reassess where one is in respect to the design process. This is a…More
Wim Crouwel in conversation
“I’m a little afraid of design as art, of moving away from the client and creating your own content. Rarely people are good at both. Design and art are in the same neighbourhood, but they should not be in bed together. But, I am also curious about this border crossing.” Sharing an interview with one…More
Nice pre-#w2e talk with Maria Giudice (@mgiudice) and Kaitlin Pike (@kcpike), sharing an overview of Maria’s 3/29 Web 2.0 Expo session.
It’s my second day at the Web 2.0 Expo here is San Francisco, and while on break, I listened to a pre-Web 2.0 Expo interview by Web 2.0’s K. C. Pike of Hot Studio’s CEO and founder, Maria Giudice who is talking about her Web 2.0 Expo session called: Don’t Go It Alone: Using Collaboration…More
Macworld SF Expo 2011: Disappointing, but . . . #apple #macworld #in
Yes, it was that time of the year again, and I made it to the Macworld 2011 Expo here in San Francisco, albeit the very last day. I have yet to attend any of the conferences. Here are my thoughts and highlights of the Expo. My compatriots were Cherie Carter and Jeanne Hendrickson. And I…More
Starbucks looks beyond coffee w/new logo design (via @fastcodesign) #in
Full article here: With Eyes on World Expansion, Starbucks Drops Its Name From New Logo | Co.Design. And a message from Starbucks. via erik spierkermann.More
Is A Revamped Brand Enough: The U.S. Postal Service Is Dying. Why Not Radically Rebrand It? | Co.Design
In this era of digital communication, one has to question whether revamping the U.S. Postal Service’s brand is enough. I think the designs Chase proposes are quite good, but are addressing the problems the postal services is dealing with that not only concern the prolific use of digital forms of communication that many of…More
Ayana Airakan-Mance | design : speak 