This average (and two-minutes-too-long) remix by Ocelot of Robyn’s pseudo-hit from 2005 gets a new video that really packs a whallop midway through - some interesting camera work, some hopefully contractually obligated participants, one pink boxing glove, and some ungodly fast shutter clicks later, we have a music video that mostly has me wondering about what professional boxers must be enduring over their professional careers.
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Legendary designer Philippe Starck — with no pretty slides behind him — spends 18 minutes reaching for the very roots of the question “Why design?” Along the way he drops brilliant insights into the human condition; listen carefully for one perfectly crystallized mantra for all of us, genius or not. Yet all this deep thought, he cheerfully admits, is to aid in the design of a better toothbrush.
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Do I still have write anything for this? Its just awesome and sexy!
Anyway its aimed at protecting the Xingu river from pollution…
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This article, plain and simple, blew me away. Presented at the ATypI Conference (Brighton, U.K., September 2007) by Joe Clark, a Toronto-based Accessibility Consultant, designer, and writer, this well-researched and comprehensive dissertation on the triumphs and foibles (but mostly foibles) of the inconsistent use of signage throughout Toronto’s city-wide transit system opened my eyes to so much happening around me (and I don’t just mean in regards to the TTC).
Everything from information design, accessibility, clarity, font usage, and branding comes into question throughout the article, taking into account history, opportunity, hegemony, possibility, and bureaucratic politics. It’s a bit of a long read, but I promise you’ll learn something.
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“A lot of rich qualitative user research loses its soul by the time it’s been squeezed into conference and journal submission formats and in addition, work involving concept generation tends to remain confidential. So what you see here scratches the surface, nothing more.”
And that quote is about right, but do not think that it’s not very interesting. There are a lot of odd tidbits that are worth knowing. They traveled to 11 cities, interviewed over a thousand people and have the pictures to prove it. If you have any interest in how hand held devices, any hand held device, may change in the future, these presentations may give you a little head start.
I enjoyed the blog format of their travels coupled with the PDF files that explain what they found. I guess the questionnaires must have been an exercise in information design by themselves, how do you ask a guy from Kampala about the interface design issues he’s been having? The writer posts some interesting thoughts from the cities, like this one, ‘ “What happens when everything is transformed into ‘experience’ shopping? And the experience shops are clustered in close proximity? Is it possible to experience, well, ‘experience fatigue’?” Some of them sound like he’s a bit jet lagged, some are relevant musings from a good scholar. It’s a blog, dammit.
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Later this week I’ll be heading to the Cannes advertising festival in France, and the last thing I want to bring with me is a laptop. So this past weekend while I was in New York, I dropped-by the Nokia flagship store at 5th & 57th and walked out with a skimpy little number that I can frollick around with on the beach.
Behold the Nokia n800 At first glance, I figured “this’ll do until the iPhone comes out” but after having played around with it, I’m not so interested in the iPhone anymore. Don’t get me wrong, I love Apple, but the only reason why the iPhone may dominate the market is because of its sexy marketing … the n800 is a linux-powered workhorse with upwards of 250 applications already developed for it (at the time of this post), including Gizmo Project & a Wordpress client to name a couple.
The iPhone may be slick and shiny, but Nokia’s got some serious development on their side. I look forward to reporting from sunny Cannes from my new wireless device.
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Michael Beirut has written a bona fide Soprano’s missive that gives all creatives some timely and astute advice. From Client Relationships to Aesthetics, Beirut finds the lesson in The Sopranos.
On commitment:
“I came home one day, shot her four times. Twice in the head. Killed her aunt, too. I didn’t know she was there. And the mailman. At that point, I had to fully commit.”I heard this back in design school, and I still forget it every now and then: if you’re going to make something big, make it really big. If you’re going to make it simple, make it really simple. Or really small, or really fancy. If you’re going after a project, if you’re trying to win a competition, if you’re serious about getting the job done, don’t bother unless you’re willing to fully commit.
Well written, brilliantly spotted and impeccably researched. Read Don Beirut at Design Observer.
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If you’ve taken a ride on the subway recently (or even if you haven’t) you may have seen Diesel’s latest campaign. Sporting the so-trendy-it-hurts slogan “Global Warming Ready” Diesel has jumped on the climate change bandwagon, but in a completely un-Aldo way. Rather than simply using the brand to bring further awareness to a hot topic (like Aids), Diesel has ensured that it can still get some ROI from the increasingly wonky weather. Needless to say the campaign has sparked some debate as well as some healthy outrage. I guess I’ll just sum up by quoting Tom Arnold: “Ballsy. Stupid, but ballsy.”
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This may take a minute to load. But once it does, you can watch all 30 SuperBowl commercials all in one place, thanks to the miracle of SplashCast.
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