Tag: Design
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Industrial Design Animation from the 1970’s
A few weeks ago I found this cartoon from the 1970’s explaining design to the public. The film explains the importance of design and how it improves everyday life. It also explains the pitfalls of bad and impractical design. It’s interesting for me, that the ideas behind design haven’t changed that much since the 1970’s.…
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Fringe Poster Competition
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:…
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Dieter Rams
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…
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Melbourne Design Market
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:
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The goal of interface design is to get rid of the interface. – Aza Raskin
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Objectified
I recently found an interesting film about industrial design. It talks about how we have interacted with objects over the years and how it may change within the future as we draw away from archetypes. The documentry is interesting and worth a look if your interested in interaction. Objectified does bring up some good points…
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Type
Due to the huge amount of work I have this week I’m unable to do a proper post. However I have found some interesting examples of cities interpreted through type. Penguin books have adopted this idea in a small ad campaign shown here. Also there is a flickr set from insect54 that displays some of…
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HTML5 vs Flash
Since the announcement of the apple ipad there has been a huge argument over what is better HTML5 or Flash. While the ipad has had it’s fair share of bashing it’s not the real issue. Products improve with time and user testing. The ipad is meant for the average user or designer, not a technology nut. Which…
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“Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.” – Charles Eames
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Red Letter Media
I’m always interested in other aspects and disciplines of design. Although design as a whole is vast I can see there are similarities between disciplines and process. The other day I found an interesting review site called Red Letter Media. What sets this review site apart from other is the way the reviewer (with a…