A giant 40-ft tall slide is being installed in the New Museum.
ahhhhhh….Carsten Holler. I’ll be visiting this with my Senior Seminar class in November. I can tell my colleagues that we are flying across the country to ride a giant slide (amongst other things.)
tumblr was a side project that David had created because he believed web publishing could be different. He believed publishing could be a simple and beautiful experience; holistic design of the publishing experience, from the post dashboard to the layout of every pixel, could be something simple and bold. I remember talking with David about the early forms of blogging and how tumblogging was emerging as a short variant. We talked about dashboards and how they should be integrated into the published experience (vs. a toolset that sits outside), and we talked about re-blogging and different tools and forms to amplify and syndicate posts. We also talked about reposting from other networks and how he wanted tumblr to retain the layout of posts vs. linking out.
tumblr’s blow out round | THINK / Musings
Random notes:
- Tumblr has become a multimedia experience in a way that Twitter has not, and no matter how complicated Twitter makes that little sidebar of theirs, it may prove to be very difficult to match Tumblr here. The attitude from this reflects that.
- I love how well integrated Tumblr’s experience is - every feature makes sense in the context of every other feature. I appreciate that, and strive for it in what we’re building at Teethie - it’s probably the thing I spend the most energy thinking about: “Does this create a holistic product?”
- Separately, I’ve been curious about the development of the reblogging feature on Tumblr - when I started on Tumblr, that reblogging feature wasn’t there. Most content was created through the bookmarklet (I guess/assume). Does anybody know more about that process?
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Glitched Book Cover Designs via new-aesthetic
Student enters design competition with book covers intentionally glitched:
“Design student Michael Kosmicki created this series of covers as an entry in the 2009 D&AD Student Awards competition. They’re based on the concept of intentionally producing a visual glitch using “an algorithm that translates the title and section into a distinct graphic pattern.””
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Soak, Dye in Light
“Dying fabric is a time-honored tradition of humankind. Local materials such as herbs, flowers, rocks, juice of animals or shells have been used through the dying process. Especially in Korea, people have deep affection toward the unique colors and textures of fabric dyed with traditional materials. Now in the age of new media, we tried a whole new way of coloring fabrics with the essential materials of new media, ‘light’ and ‘interactivity’. Also, as a meta-creative interactive installation, ‘Soak’ can be expanded for creating garments with personalized patterns or textile productions using today’s digital fabric printing technologies.”
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This is the wall design I made and had the interns paint at Hush.
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Great user experience example. This experience shows the most popular Digg’s headlines. Once I saw something like this for twitter. Great design from eighthourday.
Worth digging into.
Great video primer on resilience. Warning - fast paced.
A Key Concept for Sustainability: Systems Thinking
The design website Core 77 is running a series of videos under the title, ‘Sustainability in 7’. Each video features a leading expert in the field (e.g. William McDonough, Hunter Lovins & Janine Benyus) tackling a dimension of the sustainability challenge.
In the video above Nathan Shedroff tackles the concept of systems thinking, which Wikipedia defines as:
the process of understanding how things influence one another within a whole. In nature, systems thinking examples include ecosystems in which various elements such as air, water, movement, plants, and animals work together to survive or perish. In organizations, systems consist of people, structures, and processes that work together to make an organization healthy or unhealthy.
Systems Thinking has been defined as an approach to problem solving, by viewing “problems” as parts of an overall system, rather than reacting to specific part, outcomes or events and potentially contributing to further development of unintended consequences. Systems thinking is not one thing but a set of habits or practices within a framework that is based on the belief that the component parts of a system can best be understood in the context of relationships with each other and with other systems, rather than in isolation. Systems thinking focuses on cyclical rather than linear cause and effect.
In the video, Shedroff briefly introduces systems as a context and a perspective before explaining why ‘resilience’ is a logical successor to sustainability.
For a more thorough look at systems thinking you might want to check out Donella Meadows excellent book, ‘Thinking in Systems: A Primer’.
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Design Reading List
Needs some Ellen Lupton in that list. Such fantastic Design books, that woman has done.
Thinking with Type and Design: The New Basics are good starting points.
To see my list of design books that I’ve collated with your help, have a look at the new page of Design Think, solely dedicated to the Design reading list. Thanks very much to all those who suggested titles – see if you can find your recommendation on the list and feel free to let me know if I’ve missed any out.
A History Of Graphic Design, Phillip B Meggs
A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
A Smile In The Mind, Beryl McAlhone
A Technique For Producing Ideas, James Webb Young
A Type Primer, John Kane
As Little Design As Possible: The Work Of Dieter Rams, Sophie Lovell
Barbican: Penthouse Over The City, David Heathcote
Becoming Designers, Esther Dudley and Stuart Mealing
Blink: The Power Of Thinking Without Thinking, Malcolm GladwellA very generous list of design books! I’ve already own a few on there…
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Inventio Merus Nova: Control
In the mid 50’s, there was a guy named Roy Ascott (that’s him above), one of the first people to teach, write, and practice interactive design. He devised an educational program for design centered on cybernetics. Basically, what this meant was constructing governing systems in which the…
What designers do is they take revolutions that happen maybe in science or technology or politics, and they transform them into objects that you and I can use, that you and I can feel some familiarity or at least some curiosity about, so we can be drawn in and we can start a new life and a new behavioral pattern. And this idea of designers as the interface of progress, between progress and humanity, is what I try to stay with.
