I’ve been wanting to get my kids' names tattooed on me for a while. After having a bad experience with an artist, I decided to use 99designs.com for one of them and the results are incredible. Can’t wait to show it off, once it’s tattooed on me.
I’ve been wanting to get my kids' names tattooed on me for a while. After having a bad experience with an artist, I decided to use 99designs.com for one of them and the results are incredible. Can’t wait to show it off, once it’s tattooed on me.
Frank Chimero has a nice, OCD write-up on how he manages music. I’ve been using Spotify more than Apple Music lately and this is exactly the kind of thing I needed to run across today.
Frank Chimero has a nice, OCD write-up on how he manages music. I’ve been using Spotify more than Apple Music lately and this is exactly the kind of thing I needed to run across today.
I’m a massive fan of the music and culture of Ghostly. They have an awesome new site. Really loving the design. They even have a blog post with the team that did the redesign that was super interesting. I particularly love the catalog numbers and archive feel of everything.
I’m a big fan of Jason and pretty much everything 37signals did and Basecamp continues to do. There are some great answers in this AMA.
AMA: Jason Fried, CEO and Co-Founder of Basecamp (formerly 37signals) – Designer News
The way to build a great anything — a product, a company, a book, a blog, an app, a service, a movie, anything — is not to obsess over not making mistakes. That leads to paralysis. Try to avoid mistakes, sure. But recognize that you’ll inevitably make some, and create a culture and work ethic where mistakes get identified and fixed.Source: Daring Fireball: Steve Jobs at WWDC 1997
It’s unwise and futile to try to shove iPhone interfaces and paradigms into the Apple Watch. Instead, design for what the Watch really is.
I find it odd that we still train students to think that they’re just going to make things, versus that they might make a few things, but maybe a lot of their career is going to be arguing why something shouldn’t be made but still get paid for.
Designers who can go deep in technology like a computer scientist, and who can also understand people like a social scientist, are the designers who can think and create at the scale of millions of users. They are the ones who can manage the shifting standards and technologies that seemingly change every week. They are the ones the world needs right now.
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We used to have a map of a frontier that could be anything. The web isn’t young anymore, though. It’s settled. It’s been prospected and picked through. Increasingly, it feels like we decided to pave the wilderness, turn it into a suburb, and build a mall. And I hate this map of the web, because it only describes a fraction of what it is and what’s possible. We’ve taken an opportunity for connection and distorted it to commodify attention. That’s one of the sleaziest things you can do.
A screen doesn’t care what it shows any more than a sheet of paper cares what’s printed on it. Screens are aesthetically neutral, so the looks of things are not a part of their grain. Sorry, internet. If you want to make something look flat, go for it. There are plenty of reasons to do so. But you shouldn’t say you made things look a certain way because the screen cared one way or the other.
What Screens Want by Frank Chimero
Finally getting around to reading this gem from the end of last year.
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It is time to put an end to useless products designed for people in crummy situations (via Everyone Deserves Great Design)
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The Serif Hand, a handwritten font from La Goupil Paris
Fanny Coulez and Julien Saurin of La Goupil Paris are specialists for nice handwritten fonts. The Serif Hand is such a font that offers a natural hand drawn look.
Buy the Serif Hand font family on MyFonts.com
Check out more information about the The Serif Hand by La Goupil Paris or discover other recommended fonts on WE AND THE COLOR.
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Love this one.
Bad design makes it out into the World not through malicious intent but through no intent at all.
A short film on Mike Langley, sign painter, for Vassilaros & Sons Coffee Co. From The Portland Egotist:
The attention to detail and steadiness of sign painting work blows our mind. You get that sense here in a very small dose, but if you have a chance be sure to check out Sign Painters because it will give you a respect and a healthy dose of inspiration for this unique section of the typographic fields.
(via John Boardley)
We opt for more instead of better. Better is better than more.
Mac Pro manufacturing and assembly processes
Yeah, I got a boner. So what?
When I was a kid back in the ’70s and ’80s I was really into hi-fi systems. I couldn’t afford much gear, but I could borrow copies of The Absolute Sound and read them cover-to-cover. In those days the general wisdom was to buy an amplifier with way more power than you could possibly ever use, because it would sound great at low and normal volumes.
That wisdom stuck in my head, and I think it applies to software
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Inspired by Peter Saville’s incredibly famous album art for Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures record, last night I made this JavaScript powered, touch-reactive ”pulsar simulator.”
Click (or touch) and drag to create spikes in the graph to emulate the last gasps of a dying star. Or, just watch it as it creates a randomized, wobbling, moving homage to one of my favorite bands.
OMG. Love this.
The Setup / Aaron James Draplin
I fucking love Aaron.
(via Bob Dylan´s HAND LETTERING EXPERIENCE)
Interface Design with a Homeless person
Be kind to everyone and don’t be so quick to dismiss people. You never know who they are or what you can learn from them.
I think the web is heading towards an age of anthologies, where users gain new ways to select, sequence, and publish the content they come in contact with online. Some of these will be automated like Flipboard or Facebook’s timeline, but I’m more interested in the design opportunities of the manual tools that require our attention to pass over what we’ve reaped from the web. These anthologies are more than a flat stream or cursory pass over an exhaust of data. They are experiences and content chosen by the user to be shared in a certain sequence for a certain effect. The arrangements have edges, and fly against the nature of the web, simply in that one may “finish.”
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I love topo maps.