Archive for the ‘design’ tag
Susan Kare’s Iconic Icons
Not all design needs to be about creating attention grabbing campaigns for huge corporate brands. Good design lies in the almost invisible; small, subtle details that are noticed only when they are absent. Susan Kare’s seminal work for Apple shows that sometimes design’s goal should be to simply make things easier. To learn more about her work be sure to check out Steve Silberman’s piece over at PLoS Blogs.
– Via Jared Erickson & kotte.org
On Counter-Design
A while ago I stumbled across this photo taken by Zara AKA CommandZed of Punchcut in SF, which shows a sadly typical gay-bashing* message we would expect to see adorning a placard waved by a bigot. The truly curious aspect is the rather delightful hand crafted – presumably – constructivist influenced typography. I decided it was unfair that such negative message have sole use of such typography, and crafted a counter-poster in retaliation! Read the rest of this entry »