Visual Communications

16 Jul 2008 0814H

Design Can Change; Interaction Design Supporting Sustainability

Maybe you all have seen this site, Design Can Change, from SmashLab in Vancouver, but I just tripped over it the other day. It’s a good read, and I think we’re all looking at ways to make changes as we can in the work we do.
A new society will require all kinds of people, [...]

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09 Jun 2008 0850H

Destroy the Web 2.0 Look and Feel

By way of my colleague Mark. Wholeheartedly agree.

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26 May 2008 0724H

Faces of the Dead

A remarkable memorial to the fallen.

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21 May 2008 2221H

Dropclock

One last thing before I pass out tonight: one of the developers on a team working adjacent to ours has this screensaver on his laptop and it’s been catching my eye for a few months now, but, have silently admired it from, uh, five feet away. I need no longer do so because of my [...]

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02 May 2008 0719H

Make my logo bigger

Hilarious.

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08 Apr 2008 0745H

On “Chinese Design Everyday”

Is there such a thing as Chinese design?
Of course there is design produced by Chinese, either Americans of Chinese descent or Chinese in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taiwan, or Singapore. That is Chinese design after a fashion. But is there a vernacular we can call Chinese design? What makes it so?
I would aver, as the exhibit [...]

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07 Apr 2008 0638H

Ellen Lupton’s Thinking with Type

While I’m busy processing my thoughts about the Chinese Design Everyday exhibit, now on its last days (closes April 13) at the Design Exchange in Toronto, I’ll throw this out there.
On a trek through that stretch of Queen St West in Toronto that’s been dubbed the Art & Design District I wandered into the tiny [...]

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28 Mar 2008 2027H

At last it’s come to this

With nothing more about the candidates to discuss, and, after the Diddy/Tupac fiasco, certainly no capability to discuss, the LA Times is focusing on the typefaces of the candidates’ campaigns. 

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19 Jan 2008 0909H

Homaru Cantu cooks raccoon

I know I promised to take the food blog stuff out of EID here, but, words cannot describe, so I’m just going to link to it and hope for the best. Monica Eng brings raccoon to Homaru Cantu, the engineer-chef of Chicago’s famed Moto, and he creates a miniature roadkill scene from it. Enjoy.

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19 Jan 2008 0900H

How to decipher your natural gas bill

Was going through a pile of newspapers the other day and found this really interesting infographic on the redesign of Cleveland area gas bills, thanks to the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s John Funk. The Cleveland Plain Dealer, believe it or not, kicks major ass when it comes to infographics. Check it out.

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