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Category: Design
Helmets deserve design, too
Les Ateliers Ruby celebrates the 90th anniversary of BMW Motorrad.
Tragedy in architecture
The New York Times | Photographs of the Old Penn Station. The razing of New York’s Penn Station still ranks as one of the city’s great architectural disasters. At the time, The New York Times wrote, “We will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed”. The original Penn Station opened on Sept. 8, 1910 and was torn down in 1963. If only we could turn back time…
Simply Swedish and spectacular
Under the dust jacket, Ingrid Frostell designed covers for M. M. Kaye, House of Shade, 1963. Tom Stobart, 1960. Alexander Klein, 1958.
Painting (or illustration) an impactful picture
Illustration SPOTTED. Andy Potts| illustrator & motion designer. Andy Potts is a London based illustrator and motion designer, originally from Kingswinford in the UK. His career has encompassed image making, graphic design, animation and art direction including 7 years as lead designer at Abbey Road Studios. Andy has worked for a wide variety of clients in advertising, publishing, design, music and film and his eye-catching images have appeared in many international newspapers and magazines. Clients have included Business Week, Conde Nast, The New York Times, BBC, Bloombury, Economist, Random House, Der Spiegel, McCann Healthcare Worldwide, IBM, Harvard Business Review and Warner Music. His versatile style is a contemporary fusion of traditional and modern techniques mixing drawing, hand-crafted elements, digital collage and vivid color. Distinctive and thought-provoking…
And a happy, healthy, prosperous new year
The new world is flat
It’s goodbye to faux wood, felt and metal as Apple unveils a sleek new UI design for iOS 7 under the direction of celebrated Apple design chief Jonathan Ive. The new iOS 7 was unveiled today at Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference in San Francisco after months of speculation that Ive and team was about to ditch its increasingly outmoded attachment to skeuomorphism and move to a clean, flat color version already taking the industry by storm (i.e. Microsoft Windows 8 prodded along by superstar design firm Pentagram). A new tech minimalism is definitely well on its way. These may sound like small tweaks, but they combine to make iOS look elegant and grown-up. The design now feels like it belongs on a touchscreen. As Apple states, the higher purpose is to create “an experience that is simpler, more useful, and more enjoyable”. New features such as Control Center (organizes your most used apps), AirDrop (send photos faster vs. having to text or email), enhanced camera capabilities, better photo management and smarter multitasking were also announced along with the redesign. It’s all good but, should be interesting to see how this translates to the next generation of mobile devices (they have to have something up there well-endowed sleeves). Gotta love all the big boys embracing simplicity. Now, all we need is a cooler phone. We’re rooting for you, Jony…
More on Saul Bass
Title Champ: Short documentary that brings to life the extraordinary work of Saul Bass. Through interviews with directors such as Martin Scorsese and Guillermo del Toro, this short film reveals why Bass is still considered film title design’s greatest artist. Great perspective on this gifted man…
The Bass Effect
Anatomy of a Murder (1959): One of Saul Bass’s earlier and most celebrated title sequences for the classic Otto Preminger film. Innovative musical score by Duke Ellington. What’s not to love…
Product photography in focus
Curated basics. Kaufmann Mercantile is an online store for carefully selected, long-lasting, and well-designed goods. Think your favorite hardware store meets the hippest of Scandinavian emporiums (natural, simply constructed, minimalist, sometime ingenious, etc.). Simply designed no-frills site, amazingly curated product line, fair pricing for the most part. Product photography is perfectly clean and crisp mixed along with some simply styled environmental shots and vintage photographs. If logic prevails and these folks do their part in marketing all this great stuff, KM should fare very well. Dutch gardening tools for everyone…
