Nutrition Plate Replaces Food Pyramid
Via the Washington Post:
The new design, called MyPlate, was conceived as a crucial part of Mrs. Obama’s campaign against obesity, designed to remind consumers about the basics of a healthful diet.
The plate is split into four sections, for fruit, vegetables, grains and protein. A smaller circle sits beside it for dairy products.
I never had a problem with the “old school” food pyramid, but this is design is like 100 times better. I am sure the food pyramid makes sense to teens )when educated about it) and adults, but this highlights what food should be eaten each meal that even a young child should grasp. Very well done.
Edward Tufte Profile
Joshua Yaffa profiles Edward Tufte, one of my personal heros, for The Washington Monthly.
After the publication of Envisioning Information, Tufte decided, he told me, “to be indifferent to culture or history or time.” He became increasingly consumed with what he calls “forever knowledge,” or the idea that design is meant to guide fundamental cognitive tasks and therefore is rooted in principles that apply regardless of the material being displayed and the technology used to produce it. As Tufte explains it, basic human cognitive questions are universal, which means that design questions should be universal too. “I purposely don’t write books with names like How to Design a Web Site or How to Make a Presentation,” he told me.
Minimalist Package Design
Sometimes simple is in fact better. That is highlighted above and via Antrepo which has “mocked” up many more wonderful minimalist package designs.
Creative Facebook Profile Pics
With Facebook’s new Profile Pages folks are finding some pretty darn creative ways to use them. Mashable has a nice list of ten people using them in ways I bet nobody figured they would.
