Paula Scher gives a proper defense of serious play.
“Hi” is by Multitouch Barcelona, a design group dedicated to the communication and interaction of people and technology. The reality of life is that we are people who interact with technology everyday. We are particularly fond of Multitouch’s visual approach to this day-to-day interaction. Multitouch is also in relation with Suprb (Andreas Pihlstrom of Stockholm), a graphic designer producing clean work and typography.
There are always people behind the technology we use, sometimes, quite literally.
It’s safe to say you’ve done something right when Jonathan Ive, Senior VP of industrial design at Apple, starts copying is influenced by your visual vernacular. Dieter Rams served as head of design at Braun for 30 years (retired in 1998) and emerged as one of the most influential industrial designers of the late 20th century. I’m particularly fond of his 10 Commandments of Good Design:
Good design is innovative.
Good design makes a product useful.
Good design is aesthetic.
Good design helps us to understand a product.
Good design is unobtrusive.
Good design is honest.
Good design is durable.
Good design is consequent to the last detail.
Good design is concerned with the environment.
Good design is as little design as possible.
Back to purity, back to simplicity.
Jacek Utko is a Polish news designer with some interesting thoughts (and numbers) on the re-design of printed news.
Via Iso50.
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CHUCK ANDERSON
OurThreeThirty is an open exploration of the monotony and magic that happens mid-afternoon. Take a photo everyday at 3:30pm and post it here.
