the macbook finally gets a rest for once, todays weapon of choice is a drill and a pencil; the drill refreshingly doesn’t have an ‘undo’ button…
me news
better than making something
the wonderful ‘daniel eatock’ talking about ‘temporary alignment’ and ‘what design cannot do’ at the first ‘wdcd’ conference in amsterdam earlier this year… more uploads are being added on their vimeo page as we speak…
graphic 19
a shiny copy of the new ‘graphic’ magazine, issue #19 entitled: what a beautiful book is arrived in the post from korea this weekend, the magazine focusses on several of the (many) international and national ‘best book design’ competitions; including the dutch version and i was asked to submit a piece regarding the ‘dingen’ childrens books which have now been selected amongst the winners for the previous two years (three separate volumes)
the text from the article can be read in me stuff and finally many thanks to project editor ‘jinah min’ for sending me the magazine… it looks great
human interface
this is fun… it reminds me a lot of roel wouters’ fabulous zzz clip (in terms of the basic idea) although a bit less well done… (via ‘ronnie b’)
40 – you ok with that?
…the result is a truly modern breakthrough in road safety, designed specifically to grab the fly-like attention span of the people most likely to mow you down while texting about some shit they’ve just seen on Youtube, OK?…
british design magazine ‘blueprint’ recently asked a number of designers to reinterpret the classic road signs, as usual the contributions varied form the serious to the silly, amongst the better ones were these offerings from ‘modern toss’ who chose to do what they do best: make some modern toss…
all of the other complete sets can be seen here via blueprint