June 14th, 2008 | by Tommy | published in Books, Business, Design
Well this sure looks like an interesting book:
There is no single methodology for creating the perfect product—but you can increase your odds. One of the best ways is to understand users’ reasons for doing things. Mental Models gives you the tools to help you grasp, and design for, those reasons. Adaptive Path co-founder Indi […]
June 7th, 2008 | by Tommy | published in Design
As a frequent user of ATMs since 1986 it has always amazed me how terrible, I mean horrible the interface designs are. I mean most seem like they are designed by a four-year-old. But saying something like that isn’t fair to most four-year-olds.
This doesn’t make much sense to me on several different levels. One, if […]
April 30th, 2008 | by Tommy | published in Design
The British Office of Government Commerce (OCG) recently paid more than $28,000 for a London design firm to create them a new logo. According to the Telegraph the objective of the logo was to convey “a bold commitment to the body’s aim of improving value for money by driving up standards and capability in procurement.”
Well […]
April 15th, 2008 | by Tommy | published in Business, Design, Technology
I’ve been a fan of Evan Williams for a long time. Evan is the founder of Blogger (sold to Google), Odeo (ran into the iTunes juggernut), and now the super hip Twitter. The above sketch neat in an of itself on many different levels, eventually became Twitter, got me thinking about an article I read […]
February 13th, 2008 | by Tommy | published in Branding, Design, Great Creative
Wired has a wonderful interactive story on how Google developed one of the world’s most recognized logos. The above is version 1.0. Good thing they keep tinkering.
December 10th, 2007 | by Tommy | published in Design
Jon Hicks has put together a wonderful slideshow of typography from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. His Flickr photo stream is here. Neat overview if you like this type of stuff.
October 16th, 2007 | by Tommy | published in Culture, Design, Technology
Pop! Tech, a very cool and unique conference is streaming live (Windows Media Player required) from October 18-20. The conference is unlike any I am aware of. Pop! Tech brings together more than 500 visionary thinkers in the sciences, technology, business, design, the arts, education, government, and culture. If you have a couple minutes over […]
July 19th, 2007 | by Tommy | published in Design
Exploring Design: Outstanding Start Pages is one of the better articles I can recall reading on the topic. It uses some pretty intelligent and insightful suggestions, followed by numerous examples which might be some of the most stunning layouts you’ll ever see. Smashing Magazines sums of the objective of this post better then I could:
Designers […]
July 18th, 2007 | by Tommy | published in Culture, Design
I flat out love books so this chair from Nobody & Co. is one of the neatest things I’ve seen in a long time. I’ve got an “empty” bedroom in my house where I’d love to have two of three of these. That would be neat. The only thing I’d change is the top row […]
May 5th, 2007 | by Tommy | published in Branding, Design
As I’ve gotten older I have slowly morphed myself into something of a pretty good chef. And as I’ve taught myself to cook, I’ve found that a lot of it is about having the right tools and quality, fresh ingredients. And one thing you should never skimp on is olive oil. So I really wish […]
March 8th, 2007 | by Tommy | published in Design, Great Creative
Jarratt Moody is awful good at time-based typography. For one of his classes there was a project where he was supposed to take some audio from wherever (movie, song, poetry reading, answering machine) and then represent that audio on screen using only type.
Jarratt chose a famous scene from Pulp Fiction as his subject matter. The […]
November 5th, 2006 | by Tommy | published in Advertising, Design
NewsDesigner has an interesting post on how newspapers, in an effort to stop their sagging ad sales, are moving to "Adscpaes." Newspapers are moving away from their traditional square and rectangle ads to something that is integrated more with the text. About time, but is it too late? Many more examples here (PDF file).
July 20th, 2006 | by Tommy | published in Design, Great Creative
Veerle’s Pieters personal blog is without a doubt the most amazing design I’ve seen on the web.
In addition to being an exemplary use of CSS and standards-based
web design, it explodes with creativity and stylistic
detail at every turn. Veerle is a graphic/web designer living in Belgium. She is also the CEO of a company she founded […]
