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And watch her creation process:
Nagging Doubt “The Pull” from Dana Tanamachi on Vimeo.
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Design & Thinking – a documentary on design thinking
I’ve seen lots of books (both design and business) tackling the topic, but this is the first documentary I’ve run across. It will be interesting to see if they bring any clarity to this topic, or just pose more questions (eg: is it a tool, a methodology, a process, a POV, etc.) since depending on who you ask, you’ll get different answers to that.
Letterpress Prints made from Dice
My, yes, these are wonderful. I know that my letterpress friends may have some equally interesting experiments. What else have you all been printing with?
Dieter Rams’s 10 Principles Of Good Design, Revealed In 10 Clever Posters | Co. Design
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I can think of a few more… such as “good design is relevant” or “good design influences,” but that would change the neat simplicity of having only 10 principles.
Infographic Of The Day: The Best Design Tools On The Market | Co. Design
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“Drawn from a survey of 180 design pros, it shows the favored apps in their toolkits. At the very least, these charts will show you a few apps that you might consider: ”
I do see this mirroring my own workflow of tools in many respects. I will go on record and say that Evernote has changed my life in terms of keeping me organized (which is a big part of the battle in a creative environment – more time on big thinking and less time managing your tasks.)
“Typography Insight” iPad App Is Type Design 101
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“Typography Insight” iPad App Is Type Design 101, For Just $1.99
Now you can geek out over descenders and spans with your type geek friends, for one low, low price.I waxed ecstatic last week about a type-design program that had the courtesy to show beginners the ropes while they used it. Now comes Typography Insight, an even better (and at $1.99 in the iTunes App Store, much realer) iPad app that makes design literacy just about as fun and easy as it can possibly be without free ice cream thrown in.
It’s more like an exquisite museum exhibit than a musty textbook.
Typography Insight, as its name implies, is a pure teaching tool — you can’t build your own fonts with it. But for many type-curious amateurs, that would be too intimidating anyway; this app is for the bookworms out there who are happy just to learn about the history of typefaces (the app has all the greats, from Baskerville and Garamond to Futura and Helvetica) and also recognize details like slab serifs, ascenders, and ligatures. The app covers everything: even measurements and typesetting best practices are offered up in simple, go-at-your-own-pace interactive lessons. In a truly ingenious touch, the app includes a feature where you can lay two letterforms over each other in semi-transparency to compare and contrast all the little details that make them different.
But before you think this all sounds like homework more than playful exploration, rest assured that Typography Insight falls squarely in the latter category. Its designer, Dong Yoon Park, has savvily maximized the interactive, tactile elements of the iPad and downplayed the borderline-anal technicalities of his subject to create an experience that’s more like an exquisitely designed museum exhibit than a musty textbook. He’s thought about user experience, interface design, and all the other goodies that make an app actually fun in very, very exhaustive detail. Park aimed his app at fellow typography students (he developed it as his thesis project at Parsons), but anyone who loves books, words, history, or fine art — even in the slightest bit — will find Typography Insight as intoxicating as Wikipedia and as fun as a video game.
[Buy it here | via The Atlantic]
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OMG. Friskies Unveils iPad Apps Designed Just For Kitties | Co.Design
This whole iPad app business just jumped the shark. 
(but that doesn’t mean that I don’t want this!)
(but that doesn’t mean that I don’t want this!)
Starbucks in-progress packaging studies.
Got to use the new cup/logo at Starbucks today. Very, very green. Should I have saved it as a memento?
Your Digital Portrait, by ‘Personas’ at MIT
With every blog post and web page, you leave online trails of information for search engines to follow later. What does the sum of this trail say about you? Is this an accurate picture or just random data?
The Sociable Media Group at MIT Media Lab wanted to explore an answer to that question with a digital exhibit using “sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity.”
Translated, this Personas project shows how the Internet sees you. It’s easy enough to use, just type in your name.
Of course curiosity got the best of me and I had to try it. Just watching the program work is rather interesting – it’s a little transparent in the sense that you see the text being processed so it’s not so much of a data black box.
While interesting, it doesn’t seem totally accurate, at least to my eyes. I am certainly reminded that information without context is just data.
Since I am at an AIGA retreat this week, I thought it would be interesting to see what the system did with a little cheat, so instead of a name I typed in “AIGA the professional association for design” and this popped up:
At a minimum, I think I’m going to hang on to this colored bar and use the “dna strip” in a personal project somewhere. That alone should make for a good story!
Rear Window Timelapse on Vimeo
Rear Window Timelapse from Jeff Desom on Vimeo.
What a brilliant way to re-imagine this classic film.