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16 June 2008 – 1:00 pm
StrangeHarvest.com::Desktop Study: The Strange World of Sports Studio Design
'The BBCs Euro 2008 studio is a glass box overlooking the rooftops of Vienna… But it's the table that's of primary interest. It displays the unusual usual tropes of that tiny genre of design: football tournament desk design.'
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3 May 2008 – 9:08 am
Moving On Up!
Via Pharyngula: Jack Chick explains evolution. Which is weirdly fascinating.
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Japanese Matches - Too Cute To Burn
‘It is hard to believe they are real matches and not little edible sugar-candies. Of course that isn’t likely as it wouldn’t go over well with parents, but, on the other hand, [...]
‘Breaking the Rules’ at the British Library
28 March 2008 – 4:50 pm
I realised that Breaking the Rules: The Printed Face of the European Avant Garde 1900 - 1937 was about to close, so I popped in today for a quick gander. As ever at the BL, the range of material was impressive: they really do own a lot of stuff. Eliot, Bretton, Man Ray, Lorca, Mayakovsky, [...]
New iTunes icon for Leopard: Aphex Twin
15 December 2007 – 1:37 pm
Some time ago I made a whole set of icons for iTunes based on old 45s because I think that the Apple one just looks a bit cheap and tacky. I’m now using Leopard, the latest version of Apple’s OS, and Leopard uses super-large icons so that they look good in coverflow mode. So I [...]
Helvetica, the movie
10 September 2007 – 8:44 pm
I went to see Helvetica today. It is, as the name suggests, a documentary about the typeface, which is 50 years old this year.
I enjoyed it. My usual feeling with factual-type documentaries like this (as opposed to narrative-type documentaries like, say, Spellbound) is that they are very slow; that given the same amount of information [...]
Site Redesign
4 September 2007 – 1:10 pm
I’m itching to do yet another site redesign—I have a pretty good idea of what I want and a working test version of it, allowing for a bit of tweaking—but I think it makes sense to wait until the release of WordPress 2.3 so I don’t have to worry about any compatibility issues. I’m considering [...]
The Elements of Typographic Style
31 July 2007 – 10:35 am
I’ve been reading The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst. When I ordered it, I noticed the mild coincidence that the author has the same name as the chap who translated the poetry of the Haida (the native inhabitants of the Queen Charlotte islands in the Pacific Northwest). As it turns out, though, it’s [...]
‘Surreal Things’ at the V&A
10 June 2007 – 10:17 pm
Last week I went to ‘Surreal Things: Surrealism and Design‘ at the V&A. It explores the influence of Surrealist art on design, and demonstrates how quickly surrealist imagery was recycled as a design style; initially in very chic and expensive contexts and then in mass-market commercial design. And demonstrated in the process that it’s a [...]
London 2012 logo reactions
6 June 2007 – 2:16 pm
As regular readers probably know, I’m an enthusiastic supporter of the London Olympics. But I’ve always had my own particular private worry about them. Not transport problems or cost overruns; no, what I’ve always had a nagging worry about is the opening ceremony.
There have been two big international sporting events held in the UK in [...]
Parakeet feather on Moleskine
13 April 2007 – 12:14 pm
Parakeet feather on Moleskine
I bought a new notebook yesterday for my upcoming trip to Crete. This is the previous one, with a feather I found near the birdfeeders, presumably from a parakeet. I do like Moleskine notebooks. I’ve used masses of different notebooks of various kinds over the years both for birdwatching and poetry, but [...]
The Campaign for Better Smilies
4 April 2007 – 1:36 pm
Smilies used to really irritate me. But I’ve been persuaded. So much online communication now is chit-chat, banter and small talk. And informal conversation is driven as much by tone of voice as by actual words. A real example. Someone leaves a nice comment on this blog, and I don’t really have anything to say [...]
Worst product design EVER!
17 January 2007 – 10:01 pm
OK, not the worst ever, but the one which is currently annoying me: screw-top beer bottles. You know the ones, which look like traditional crown caps but actually screw off.
You can see why someone thought they were a good innovation; they look the same (which is important, because what kind of girlie-man drinks beer from [...]
I could have told them that.
29 November 2006 – 8:00 pm
“A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Treasury Department is violating the law by failing to design and issue currency that is readily distinguishable to blind and visually impaired people.”
Speaking as a fully-sighted person, when I was in Ecuador (where they use US dollars) I found the near-identical designs of different denominations really annoying; [...]
FSotW: matchbox labels
18 November 2006 – 10:28 am
Flickr set of the week is matchbox labels by Maraid - who is in fact Jane McDevitt of Maraid Design in Yorkshire. I particularly love the tapir.
FSotW: USSR Posters
21 October 2006 – 12:24 pm
Flickr set of the week is USSR Posters, an absolutely staggering collection of 1,469 “Russian and/or Soviet propaganda & advert posters [1917-1991]” put on Flickr by bpx. I’ve only had a chance to dip into them, but here’s a few to give you a taste:
The same person has an even larger selection of WWII posters [...]
New new iTunes icons
22 September 2006 – 6:28 pm
I thought it would be fun to make a whole set, with different record labels. I’ve added Trojan, Upsetter, Chess, Apple and Sun:
You can get a zip of them as .icns files here.
FSotW: Good Decorating
16 September 2006 – 3:41 pm
Flickr set of the week this week is Good Decorating by MikeLove. This are “examples of good decorating from the Practical Encyclopedia of Good Decorating and Home Improvement (1970)”.
Yet again with the iTunes icons
13 September 2006 – 7:24 pm
I decided that while the coloured vinyl was ok on its own, the addition of a coloured note was just too garish.
The anti-aliasing round the note needs tweaking, but I think it looks pretty good. Better than the original:
EDIT: OK, I’ve tweaked it. Here’s the final version:
For Mac users, there’s a zip of those [...]