Starchitects.
So, I’m checking out the Cooper Hewitt 2005 National Design Award nominees and lo and behold, one of them is my former landlord, Tom Kundig. How cool is that???
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Cool interface.
A great Flash interface at Design Within Reach (browse one of the catalogs). Found while looking for folding inspiration for the household vessel I’m creating for my industrial design class….
Design.
So, I was thinking I might start posting design observations here. My first entry will be about a bad, bad UI, one caused by human neglect, mostly. It involves Seattle’s Metro buses. I usually catch the 31 to get home from the grad studio and have missed it a
Tuesday, Sept 8th. The shoes I wore to meet the architect.
In my life, I have been told I resemble a prettier version of Allison Janney; easily passed off as Katharine Hepburn at a Halloween party; most recently been compared to Claire on House of Cards. Which is not to say that we’re doppelgängers by any means, but the concept
On being subtle but not small.
Subtle. The difference between a male and female jawline. The angle of the forehead, the curve of the brow.
There’s an algorithm for that: an electronic tongue taste differences in beer.
Minor. The delta between the girl and boy nutmeg trees. One bears fruit, the other, the flower. In
On Microsoft Excel, Big Software, and Brazilian Favelas.
I often telling people designing for Excel is more like urban design than anything else. Because like a city, big software is a messy, chaotic system that is constantly evolving with millions of opinionated inputs by passionate, feeling, needy inhabitants and feisty, exuberant, competent and just as often, incompetent (but
On touching data.
Touch interface design guidelines dictate that the more simple and limited the gestural language used to control a system, the better. Use only these gestures when designing for touch devices: slide, pinch, zoom, tap, double tap. The reasoning goes that first of all, there are little to no affordances in
Tuesday, January 13. The shoes I wore to meet the architect.
Design is about constraints. Technical constraints, physical constraints, financial constraints, political constraints. We are at the stage in our home design where constraints are converging from many angles.
The shoes I’ve worn to meet the architect lately haven’t been worn to meet the architect. They’ve been worn
Who made that Pantone 629M?
Robin’s egg blue is my favorite color. Luckily, it looks really good with brown. I’m getting ready to place my first straw order, picking the Pantone color for Bellflower Chocolate this week: 629U and/or M. Thank you, Lawrence Herbert.
Pantone Color Institute
How Tiffany’s Iconic Box
On how good design makes food taste better.
I never knew I was a foodie gourmande until I didn’t have access to good food. Misery loves company, and some of my first conversations with my friend Paolo, who moved to D.C. from the West Coast about a year or so after I did, were about how