Favourite things: September
A round up of the designs, ideas and debates that have interested and inspired me during the month.
This is the first in a series of monthly round-ups designed as much for my own benefit as yours, dear reader. It’s a means of reminding myself what has been spiking my interest and inspiring me over the last thirty days and maybe provide a little insight for you too along the way. It’s a combination of saved posts from my RSS feeds, Delicious bookmarks and favourited tweets.
Without further ado, here’s September’s list.
Sushi & Robots Another fabulous re-design from Jina Bolton, making the extremely complex look elegant and easy. Lovely.
EveryBlock via Adam Greenfield, EveryBlock shows some of the immense potential of filtering available hyperlocal information sources.
Second And Park A lovely balanced design for Tiffani Jones, combining great typography and visual restraint. The copy is, of course, beautifully crisp and crafted.
What the F**K is Social Media: One Year Later Marta Kagan on the ubiquity of social media and the art of conversation
Memorial. Period. Brand New reviews Landor’s exceptional work on the 9/11 Memorial with Hoefler & Frere-Jones’ Verlag used to great, and rather moving, effect.
‘When pitching to a client, remember that rough layouts sell the idea better than polished ones’
Paul Arden
(via swissmiss)
Networked urbanism: From constant to variable Adam Greenfield‘s summary of the key themes from his inspiring keynote at dConstruct ’09. I’ve written up my own thoughts on the day elsewhere.
Four seconds of silence Those clever people at Cooper on the power of silence in interviews.
‘Bad design is frequently the consequence of mindless dabbling, and the difficulty is not confined merely to the design of logos.’
Paul Rand
Doug Bowman’s rather elegant and pointed response to Yale’s decision to drop its iconic Rand logo from its publishing arm.
Eye Tracking gives you evidence of what people look at. Not whether they like it understand it or want it Understanding the difference between impression and intent, Harry Brignull on eye tracking. Both provocative and true.
What’s broken about wireframes and how can we fix them? Agree with every word here – a niggling everyday frustration at the moment. A topic I plan to return to…
The Story of a Beautiful Failure informationarchitects.jp wonderful piece on applying the principles of digital user experience offline to a redesign of Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger