design that resonates
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Why staplers run out before you’ve finished
These staples are free-standing so the image is extra mesmerising. There’s something about a full stack of staples – like a full tank of gas. You can take on the world when your machine is full. via: Daily Icon
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Victorian information design par excellence
Great collection of Victorian charts and graphics at BibliOdyssey. Also see Minard’s cartography and Flo Nightingales ‘Coxcombs’
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Indeed, ‘Design thinking isn’t enough’
I read this article in HBR: Why Design Thinking Won’t Save You by Peter Merholz and it stuck with me for two reasons: I kinda agree and respectfully disagree with elements. I completely agree that design thinking on it’s own is not enough. For the past year I have been working with a colleague with…
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Eight ways to kill an idea
Original work by Scott Campbell via: Fast Company
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Lord of the Rings and Napolean interactive marches
Top: Charles Joseph Minard’s depiction of Napolean’s losses during his ill-fated march in Russia Bottom: Randall Munroe’s (xkcd) depiction of Wizards, Men, Hobbits, Ents, Elves, Orcs and Dwarves adventure-filled march in Middle Earth.
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UFTN – not a kiwi way of saying ‘often’
But it is a kiwi’s way of thinking about my function as a Designer: Understand – we observe, we question, we associate sometimes disparate elements Filter – we analyse <> synthesis and repeat, we interpret, we framework Translate – we describe in words, in visuals, in protoypes (make) Navigable – so that for the user…
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Bugs vs Aliens
Nuclearly morphologically disturbed insects and Alexander McQueen Spring 2010