On Saturday, Adelaide Fringe announced the competition to the Fringe Festival open. During the years of the Fringe there have been some great designs and anyone can enter!
This year’s entries are allowed (or encouraged) to use a range of mediums such as animation, sculpture, photography etc.
For more details on the Fringe go here: Fringe Poster Competition
I never use this term: Form follows function
- Dieter Rams
Dieter Rams is an industrial designer whose works in closely associated Braun. Rams explains his designs though one term “Less, but better“. While studying at TAFE I had learnt if you could explain your ideas and design philosophy through one sentence, it is a mark of a truly great designer.
Perhaps it is time to break out of the mediocrity shell.
Dieter Rams explains his design philosophy through 10 simple design principals:
More on Dieter Rams:
“Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures”
- Harvey Pekar (writer of American Splendor)
While away in Melbourne a week ago I was fortunate enough to visit the Melbourne Design Market. Although the layout and though are pretty similar to Adelaide’s Bower Bird Bazaar it was interesting to see what is popular in other states.
While there I picked up some business cards with great typographic examples:
Because sketches are faster, require less overhead, and by their nature are perceived to be less ‘done,’ they are better suited to the task-artifact cycle of design exploration. They should be considered an effective modeling process for designers to be able to conceive and predict the consequences of certain design arguments during the design ideation phase and subsequently leading to better design.
Who could say no to a man singing about code on the piano? I really enjoyed this TED talk from David Pogue. He talks about some of the worst offenders of interface design but also points out the positives of some their designs.
It’s interesting as web designers we’re facing an old problem which has somehow become new.
Whether you are a web designer or developer I can’t stress how important it is to check, double check and then re check again. As a designer it’s important to be paranoid about the work going out for publishing. After all one mistake and it’s your reputation that could be on the line. I have to admit I have made a few mistakes in my career due to my carelessness. However it is important to learn from these mistakes rather than make them again. After all making the same mistake twice is liable to get you fired.
As an example to avoid uploading a pricing page to the company website, I have come up with a checklist (as with most things I do) to make sure I don’t upload the wrong page or upload a page where a dealer / importer could change the prices. A typical checklist could look like this:
Although it’s only a small job, if gotten wrong it could potentially cost the company thousands of dollars. It’s developing checklist like these that help avoid mistakes. The idea is to gain as much control as possible over the project or task. If I know what is happening or where it could go wrong and if it does I know where to look back.
They are time consuming but once understood can save you time on costly mistakes.
It’s an interesting question, since sometimes I don’t know what motivates me to get up in the morning. It use to be learning something new. Now it’s developing a portfolio for future employers or to start my business.
This video explains what can motivate us into doing a good job. I do agree with some points, since I tend to think if I didn’t have to work I could a lot done. If you have a spare 10 minutes it’s definitely worth a watch, and it’s entertaining too!
We need more designers that understand the web and can push it forward. Design is no longer about applying the corporate color palette and making it look pretty. There’s a growing need for designers to take the lead in shaping the way we get information. Designers need to realize the role the Internet will play ten years from now, and trying to jump on it then will be much harder than starting now.
- Matias Corea
Taken from his Design Droplets Interview:
http://designdroplets.com/designer-qa/matias-corea-chief-designer-behance/