Joanne Mackellar

Tag: Design

  • Are computers intuitive?

    Early last year I wrote an article on intuition. I went into some detail on what is intuition and how it is used on interface design. I will post the article on this blog at a later date. The other day I was watching “Cloudy with a chance of meatballs” and this clip: Although it…

  • Quote

    “The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.” – Victor Papanek

  • Quote

    “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” — Steve Jobs

  • Textures

    It’s been one of those hectic years, still studying tafe, getting a full time job halfway through the year and somehow I’ve neglected this blog. To finish off the year I would like to post some texture I’ve found during a visit to the old red brick company. I hope by the new year I will be back…

  • 24 Ways

    It’s Christmas time again and to my surprise I found an online advent calender for graphic designers. Instead of chocolate there are articles which include web design. There are some great articles on this site that are worth having a look at. Some posts move back to the basics of web design but I feel…

  • Alex Fisher

    One of my first post in this blog was about manhole covers in Japan. Alex Fisher has taken what I noticed in Japan one step further by getting charcoal impressions of the manhole covers. Although manhole covers aren’t something you would look at everyday from a designers point of view. It’s interesting to note the…

  • Apple Tablet

    I read in the news recently that apple were thinking about making a tablet computer that can play ebooks, music and movies. I found this interesting since our last project was based on a digital jukebox which incorporated ebooks, music and movies. While talking with my team mates we thought it would be interesting to…

  • Lovely Packaging

    Some lovely packaging from around the world. Some of these works are inspirational. Like everything in design the packaging is well considered. I wish some websites were like this, though web development is relatively new to the design world. For a link to the site: http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/05/50-beautiful-and-effective-package-designs/

  • Ballistic’s Report

    On feburary 11th we were requested to attend an industry visit to ballistic media. For this visit we are required to answer some questions: Ballistic’s media has been around since 2003 and have a world wide audience. Their demographic are mainly from Western Europe and the USA. However they have a growing market in South…