4 posts tagged “design”

Design within constraints: No one belongs here more than you. That's a new way to sell a book, eh?

And, I'm learning new words:

Saks’s chopped-up logo is the latest and most visible example of what graphic designers call a dynamic visual identity. That’s design-speak for a logo that looks different each time you see it — like MTV’s graffiti-esque initials or the customized symbols with which Google celebrates Thanksgiving and Valentine’s Day — as opposed to the old-fashioned corporate ones, which always look the same.

Via Waxy and 37 Signals.

The Moleskine City Notebook. This would be a fun thing to carry around and jot notes in and really capture my personal notes about a city, particularly a city I call home (though I know it to be highly unlikely that a Phoenix edition will appear in this series soon).

And this! The Ambient Clock.

"the clock's actual display is based on data from Google Calendar, so that events become intuitively glanceable. for instance, the background color changes depending on pending appointments, while the black bars on the outside signify scheduled activities & the small dots show the according 'drive-times'."

Oh hecky yah. The clock is still under review, and the design team is soliciting feedback. You can test drive the clock with a widget on your personalized Google homepage. Very cool.

I have read about Jane Jacobs for years now, but I am only now finally reading Jane Jacobs. Tonight my introduction was the Introduction to The Life and Death of Great American Cities.

"Price tags are fastened on the population, and each sorted-out chunk of price-tagged populace lives in growing suspicion and tension against the surrounding city."

When I was younger and I knew less, I liked shopping at Urban Outfitters. That company finds some really cool stuff.

But over the past year or so, I have learned that they like to jack designs from exactly the sorts of artists I dig. They are pissing in the pool.

So, I'm just a bit older, and a little bit wiser, and now I won't shop at Urban Outfitters. It's too bad. They had a good thing going.