“For love is divine, and then most divine when it loves according to needs and not according to merits.”George MacDonald, Unspoken Sermons
Kiva now has teams. How about a North Temple team?
This just brings a smile to my face.
“Does this bother anyone else? I feel like an embarrassed second grader who just pooped his pants.” – me
My instant reaction after viewing jQuery’s recent redesign
Armin is digging this new HP logo, but I’m pretty baffled at why. The shading is anything but subtle, and the glowing orb and lighting on the HP seems logistically impossible. Wouldn’t the glow from the orb (can an orb glow from the inside?) reflect on the shiny HP? It’s cliche, easy, and about 10 years too late. Maybe if it were spinning, I might feel a bit different..
Nikon’s announcement of D-Movie makes flickr’s video potential a little more interesting. Yet another reason you shouldn’t have bought a Canon :)
case study
Designing in a Team:
Skills, Attitudes, and Success
Last week Cameron sent an e-mail to gather some ideas about how to succeed as an in-house designer. Aside from the more obvious (and individual) necessities of technical skill, graphical ability, and general smarts, how do you succeed in a team environment, where people have different ideas, biases, and approaches to meeting the team’s common goals?
Just 1 of 200 daily monster videos by Stefan Bucher : I think it’s rad.
Matt Brett launches his new do. Call me a girl, but pink is in right now, and I’m not afraid to love it. Nice chocolates too, and lots of nice little touches. Matt’s always been reliable for great design insight and plenty of the gaming nerdery I’ve been known to indulge in.
Wired covers the Red One camera used to film the skateboarding footage linked to earlier on this blog. (if you haven’t seen the skateboarding footage, its in this article as well.) Awesome.
Ubiquity is an “experiment into connecting the Web with language in an attempt to find new user interfaces that could make it possible for everyone to do common Web tasks more quickly and easily.”
It is very alpha stage level stuff, but pretty cool looking.
For Pete
“There could be wisdom in something stupid.”John Dilworth (in our team Design Review today.)
Jamie Wilkinson chats about his internet fame course at the Parsons New School for Design in New York City, where he grades his students based on how famous they become during the semester. (via The Graphic Student).
Communication Arts Interactive 14 is now available online. The screen above is from FirstBorn. I love the layout and typography of the titles. So simple. They also have Vision Street Wear on the list this year. No website can top that at the moment.
“In typography neither the old style nor the new style matters; quality does.”Jan Tschichold, On Typography (1957) — Jason Santa Maria provides a nice little piece about Tschichold’s change of heart, from his youthful days of san-serif only typographic rebellion in Nazi Germany to his latter years of classical inspiration as the head designer for Penguin Press. Tschichold’s writing and design work is something that every designer should be familiar with.
“1 million design students will graduate this year in China, the United States will graduate 40 thousand.”
On September 9th, Christopher Liechty from the AIGA XCD (Center for Cross Cultural Design) will be presenting findings from a recent field trip to China. The presentation will take place at the Art institute in Draper (121 W. Election Road) at 7:00 pm ($5 for AIGA members, $10 for non-members).
This sounds like a great opportunity to get a look at the state of design in China, especially after seeing all the great design and work from the Beijing Olympics.
Additional request: Can someone please fix the SLC AIGA web site? I’d love to link to some official information, but can’t find anything about this particular event online.