Observed | September 19
Remembering the Village Voice: Drugs delivered to the office, back stabbings, headlocks... [BV]
A brief history of
product sound design. (via Blake Eskin) [BV]
Observed | September 18
We know
music is pleasurable, but it’s incredibly difficult to discern just how this comes to pass. [BV]
Observed | September 14
Extraordinary gas stations From John Margolies’ archive of Americana architecture. [BV]
Spend some time listening this weekend:
Designed this Way explores design in India. [BV]
Observed | September 13
Goodbye to bits and atoms.
Uber has rebranded for the second time in less than three years. (via
James I. Bowie) [BV]
Observed | September 12
Congrats to Michael Bierut + Jessica Helfand!
The Design of Business | The Business of Design was named one of the 15 best graphic design podcasts. [BV]
How
the hardware store orders things, neighborhoods, and material worlds. [BV]
Observed | September 11
“Most pleasant to the ear”: W. E. B. Du Bois’s
itinerant intellectual soundscapes. [BV]
Observed | September 10
Anatomy of an AI System. (via Blake Eskin) [BV]
Observed | September 07
Laugh and the world laughs with you. But not everyone LOLs.
How people around the world laugh online. [BV]
What colors define historical periods?
Color Leap creates color palettes from 2000 BC to the 1960s. (via Blake Eskin) [BV]
Observed | September 06
Inside America’s
abandoned theaters: the curtains have been called. [BV]
Observed | September 05
Ken Kocienda: “I invented the
iPhone’s autocorrect. Sorry about that, and you’re welcome.” [BV]
How
magazine cover design may be more important than ever. (via
James I. Bowie) [BV]
The
Cooper Hewitt received the London Design Biennale 2018 Emotional States Medal for “Face Values”, curated by Ellen Lupton. Our very own Jessica Helfand is one of the participating artists. Congratulations all! [BV]
Observed | August 31
In Helsinki, a
new design museum opens underground. [BV]
From schools to sand piles:
In her new book, critic Alexandra Lange tracks how design has shaped kids and kids have shaped design. [BV]
Observed | August 30
Integral thinking:
design in four dimensions. [BV]
With ‘bookstagramming’ becoming a force in marketing, are designers making covers more colourful, bolder and cleaner, to stand out on our screens? [BV]
Observed | August 28
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints faces
a divinely inspired rebranding challenge. (via
James I. Bowie) [BV]
“When we talk about
queering design pedagogy we need to talk about reproduction(s).” [BV]
Observed | August 27
A look at
how to design for senior citizens: both in the macro scale of cities and the small scale of dwellings. [BV]
With her
elegant 3-D subway schematics Candy Chan joins a long line of graphic designers and artists who have tried to explore—and explain—mass transit systems through visuals. [BV]
Observed | August 24
An ode to the color gray. [BV]
Observed | August 23
7 reasons the design industry may have forgotten
Yves Béhar. [BV]
In the fight for net neutrality: Verizon under fire for
‘throttling’ firefighters’ data in California blaze. [BV]
Observed | August 22
Your afternoon moment of zen:
delicate paper robots. [BV]
The video game soda machine project is
obsessively cataloging video game “pop” culture. [BV]
Observed | August 21
Cartographers, rejoice. The world’s newest,
most gloriously designed maps. [BV]
