Category: Design
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Lateral Thinking
A few weeks ago we were introduced to the term “lateral thinking”. As a student I wrote down the term and forgot about till I watched last week’s episode of The Gruen Transfer where the term had come up again about toothpaste. I felt this term needed more exploration. Lateral thinking is a term coined…
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Affective Design
For my essay I was asked to research intuition, I came across the website for affective design. It has some great essays on how to meet a positive emotion for the end user. As designers it’s always important for us to consider the end user and what mindset we will invoke. Without the end user…
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Designer’s Portfolios
There are some designers / coders out there you just sit there and wonder if they were born with a genius gene? Well most likely not, they are more than likely hard workers and are passionate about what they do. The fact that they are allowed to show the company work on their own personal…
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Blue Moose Ltd
Can’t think of a name for your design company? Then have no fear, the breadline design naming company will do it for you. Though be warned you will probably get a name you don’t like such as Blue Moose Ltd. I was having a look at interfaces that are intuitive and found this site to…
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Braid
During the holidays I found a fantastic game called “Braid”. In a gaming world full of 3D generated games it’s nice to see a 2D puzzle games still has it’s place in the world. What sets this game out from others is not just it’s fantastic game play but also the wonderful design. Everything in…
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Inspirational Packaging
Despite the saying “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover”, people do judge products by the packaging. I was quite impressed when I saw this blog post on abduzeedo. Although most of the work are student designs, it shows how much consideration and care is taken when designing the final product. No matter what the…
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Volll
I happend to catch this site on the Princss site. Funnily enough I was doing a promotional product for BMW and this site had several, since BMW were their clients. I actually enjoyed this site though I did find it confusing to work with at first. However that’s okay it’s a site that is meant…
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Rundle Lantern Update
Some people might remember this post about the Rundle Lantern in Adelaide. I’m happy to say that the Rundle Lantern will be running on the 24th of October 2008. People should go see the light up it promises to be an exciting event in Adelaide. For more information on the Rundle Lantern please visit these…
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Rundle Lantern
I found out about this project a last year but thought it had not gone through cancel. I was a surprisedthat it’s not being made. Adelaide is not really know for it’s architecture triumphs (which is a real shame in my opinion), but that could change with this project. The Rundle Lantern is designed for…