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doctor & mister

this is a new name to me: the italian firm ‘jekyll & hyde’ who have a nice array of projects and crafted design work

the see nothing project for example, with a book/calendar/website and expo…

m / 02-06-2009 12:03

here to be bad (yet another design defintion)

i’ve been collecting good and bad defintions for a while… this latest one i came across is from ‘tibor kalman’ (still badly missed by many)

"We have to be brave and we have to be bad. If we’re bad, we can be the esthetic conscience of the business world. We can break the cycle of blandness. We can jam up the assembly line that spills out one dull, lookalike piece of crap after another. We can say, "Why not do something with artistic integrity and ideological courage?" We can say, "Why not do something that forces us to rewrite the definition of good designí?" Most of all, bad is about recapturing the idea that a designer is the representative – almost like a missionary – of art, within the world of business. We’re not here to give them what is safe and expedient. We’re not here to help clients eradicate everything of visual interest from the face of the earth. We’re here to make them think about design that is dangerous and unpredictable. We’re here to inject art into commerce. We’re here to be bad."

m / 02-06-2009 11:58

revenge

paint, explosions and humour are everyday tools for sander & lernert who’ve updated their portfolio again…

m / 02-06-2009 11:54

subtraction: aspects of essential design

i love this book jacket by ‘alexander gelman’

m / 02-06-2009 11:51

dear american airlines

I redesigned your website’s front page, and I’d like to get your opinion.

interesting approach to getting a job and an anonymous response from the client, not sure if the overly angry – aggressive tone of voice is the right way to go about it though (thanks to ‘gius’ for the tip)

m / 02-06-2009 11:49