André Brocatus was here...

IT IS HAPPENING AGAIN

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:32:45 +0100

lolbook on tumblr.

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:50:14 +0100

lolbook on tumblr.

The Best Free Fonts of 2009 | Web Design Ledger

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:58:13 +0100

The Best Free Fonts of 2009 | Web Design Ledger

philleif: “Frame for frame, ‘Tag’ is probably the most exciting...

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:47:56 +0100

philleif:

“Frame for frame, ‘Tag’ is probably the most exciting ad ever made. It had the drama of the chase scene in The French Connection. It won the admiration of the industry and a Cannes Lion Grand Prix.” An excerpt from anthropologist-economist Grant McCracken’s new book, Chief Culture Officer, is about ad exec Dan Wieden, who coined the slogan “Just Do It” for Nike in 1998, and directed the “Tag” commercial three years later. (via Grant McCracken on Nike | The Awl)

saar: The duo Zoe Miller and David Goodman designed this...

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:48:19 +0100

saar:

The duo Zoe Miller and David Goodman designed this blockgame. You can make your own crazy faces and forms. (via Tas-ka)

I love it!

"As a side experiment, my colleagues asked several experts in the company for their expert opinion as..."

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:54:00 +0100

“As a side experiment, my colleagues asked several experts in the company for their expert opinion as to what problems users would run into, and compiled them into a list. (These experts included the software designers, domain experts, and the people who trained users on the software.) Then my colleagues ran their study, observing sixteen people using this software for the first time, and made a list of the problems that users actually ran into. The result?

There was not one common item on the two lists.”

- Designing the User Experience at Autodesk: Design Values: Validated Data over Expert Opinion (via slantback)

via mikearauz: Eight ways to kill an idea

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:43:07 +0100

via mikearauz: Eight ways to kill an idea

whileyouwereout: hello world Straight out of a Douglas...

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:05:37 +0100

whileyouwereout:

hello world

Straight out of a Douglas Coupland novel

In Log in or sign up? Leah Culver recommends a combined...

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:14:11 +0100

In Log in or sign up? Leah Culver recommends a combined log-in/register form. I would totally agree and say this was a great design. If I was not using tumblr.

The tumblr homepage shows a signup form when you are not logged in. But if you are a tumblr user and fill in your name and password, the system logs you in directly. Why would you need two buttons? Tumblr knows you have registered!

Tumblrers you are my webdesign heros.

"“Wait, are you telling me they really released all of these bouncy balls down this big hill?” Yes I..."

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:39:40 +0100

““Wait, are you telling me they really released all of these bouncy balls down this big hill?” Yes I am. And if you have the choice, I think you should do it that way too.”

- Frank Chimero Via Frank: Faking It

via travors

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:08:34 +0100

via travors

"It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way."

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:52:47 +0100

““It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.””

- Rollo May (via psychotherapy)

“I came upon twin fawns in the display case of a mom and pop toy...

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:51:45 +0100

“I came upon twin fawns in the display case of a mom and pop toy and science store in Kansas City, Missouri. It took me two years to win the trust of the shop owner and save the money to buy them. A taxidermist spotted a dead deer by the side of the road. He stopped to properly dispose of the body and realized she was pregnant. He opened her and found near full-term twin fawns, he removed and preserved them.

Deer rarely have twins and the taxidermist retained the uterine gesture of their bodies. I built them a vitrine with a light blue base. Their prematurity exaggerates the delicacy of an incredibly sweet thing. The points of their hooves, the length of their lashes, the spots of their hides, nose to small nose in an ur-cartoonish realism … Viewers’ eyes trick them into believing the fawns are breathing. The tragedy of beauty is its transience.

The twins live forever in their own demise. They are sleeping beauties.They have been muses since I first saw them … We dress death in lilies and bronze the names of our dead sons on walls. We erect altars of toys and hold candlelight vigils to express hope. My twin fawns sleep endlessly on their baby blue block in my studio. The twins never opened their eyes yet their wondrous fatality evokes an acceptable alternative to death.”

— Peregrine Honig

via scout:

thedailywhat: Who better than Tim Burton to direct an animated...

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:28:39 +0100

thedailywhat: Who better than Tim Burton to direct an animated 30-spot promoting his upcoming MoMA retrospective? No one, that’s who.

The exhibition opens November 22, and will run through April 26, 2010.

via notemily

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:37:27 +0100

via notemily

whileyouwereout: fluffynotes: via people.brandeis.edu

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:28:05 +0100

whileyouwereout:

fluffynotes:

via people.brandeis.edu

"The seed ye sow, another reaps; The wealth ye find, another keeps; The robes ye weave, another..."

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:28:01 +0100

“The seed ye sow, another reaps; The wealth ye find, another keeps; The robes ye weave, another wears; The arms ye forge, another bears.”

- Percy Bysshe Shelley (via claytoncubitt)

"Piaget noted long ago, in his classic study of children playing marbles, that children acquire a..."

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:27:30 +0100

“Piaget noted long ago, in his classic study of children playing marbles, that children acquire a higher understanding of rules when they play just with other children than when their play is directed by adults. Adult direction, in formal games, leads to the assumption that rules are determined by an outside authority and are not to be questioned. When children play just among themselves, however, with no official authority present, they come to realize that rules are just conventions, established to make the game more fun and more fair, and can be changed to meet changing conditions. For life in a democracy, few lessons are more important than that.”

- Some Lessons Taught by Informal Sports, Not Taught by Formal Sports | Psychology Today (via notemily)

How to Have an Idea (via frank-chimero)

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:15:53 +0100

How to Have an Idea (via frank-chimero)

"Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose."

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:42:43 +0100

“Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.”

- Reblogged because it is a quote from Charles Eames, a hero of mine (I am sitting in one of his chairs right now) otherwise rather obvious, no? (via ronenreblogs)