Font Swatch.
Wow, this is cool. Saw it in the latest issue of Dwell Magazine, but you can buy it on Amazon.
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Design Studio 108 B.
They say those who can, do and those who can’t, teach. I say that’s bullshit, based on my own experience with designers in the “real” world. Those who should be doing, but don’t. Can’t, actually. Even if they wanted to. On the contrary, the design professors
Cities, urban interfaces, and consequential strangers.
I heard a piece on WYPR the other day on consequential strangers and how important they are in our daily lives. I then found this article in Time Magazine:
If you look at the relationship continuum from stranger to soul mate, consequential strangers fall in that vast territory just beyond
Theatre Sofa.
Saw this sofa at DWR the other day. I loved it! Especially the color: robin’s egg blue. Will thinks it’s too modern, though.
How a pretty thing inspires me to write.
It’s always winter when I write. Beautiful, calm, soothing white winter.
As a child growing up in Colorado, there’s a very unique, comforting, secure sense of being snowed in. If you’ve never experienced it, I really can’t explain it to you. But may I recommend a
Urban pattern libraries.
In the morning the city Spreads its wings Making a song In stone that sings.
In the evening the city Goes to bed Hanging lights About its head. - Langston Hughes
How to navigate a city? Let me count the ways. In some cities, there are many more ways than
Masters of Design.
It’s that time of year, time for Fast Company’s Masters of Design edition. Yves Béhar is on the cover, one of my faves. But I wonder when they’ll finally put a woman on the cover??
I don’t think they’d ever put a graphic designer on
Rethinking the Remote.
Wow. This is interesting to see given that one of my class assignments with Axel was to rethink the remote. Introducing The Loop. Interesting….
On Kant, aesthetics, and consumption.
I’ve been bantering back and forth with designers about aesthetics in design, via this fascinating discussion. Someone suggested that if aesthetics is so important (which it is), then design students should study the philosophical origins of aesthetics. I completely agree (why isn’t this already a given in design
The Art of the Title Sequence.
I just found this really cool website, via A Very Short List: The Art of the Title Sequence. An archive of title sequence design. Yummy.