Design links: Prettily creative kids’ crafts’ site; Hiroki Nakamura, my style icon, fun typography features and manufactured-ly “vintage” design
1. MiniEco.co.uk Aaargh, visually arresting site for crafting with kids! I love the rainbow sprinkles-popcorn feature and all the rainbow objects! 2. Hiroki Nakamura and VISVIM This man is one of my style icons. Not all his products really, but more of how he carries himself. And how he’s able to pull off green bead necklaces … Read more
5 bits of amazing design: A typography dating game, early Mac icon designs, an iPad visual declutterer, metaphorical digital installation art and Fallingwater
1. Susan Kare’s Sketchbook Susan Kare was an artist who was asked to design fonts for Macintosh, back in the day when there were no screen icon design apps. The featured excerpts of the sketchbook where she drafted initial ideas for user interface icons are just an interesting glimpse into sometimes overlooked bits of web … Read more
10 Finds for the Day: Web design (theories, ads, global samples, info visualization)
It was a good browsing day. Just one great find after another. 1. First up were Smashing Magazine’s helpful features. I loved their global web design articles. The cultural patterns and design lessons from the different countries gave a certain “flavor” of insight that you can’t see just looking at a hodge-podge of primarily Western/American … Read more
Grab bag: Design and architecture
Still cleaning up open tabs. This will end someday and I will get around to actual writing. Soon, soon. Accurate fake sunlight. Beautifully practical Japanese objects. Friends of Type. Mon Zamora photos. A graffiti motion capture program. Andy Baio essay-article on the limits of intellectual property in design. Design documentaries. Business card design. Brand memory … Read more
Around the net: things I liked looking at
Really vague. But just trying to collect all these links I came across and enjoyed these past weeks. 1. I didn’t even know there were trailers for books. Cool. 2. Great playground design by Sofia Petersson’s German lanscape architecture firm Annabau. 3. Apparently, the world now has an illustrated version of Strunk & White’s The … Read more
