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Tokyo Arteria A 3D Model of Tokyo’s Underground Metro System
Tokyo’s subway system is arguably one of the most complex in the world. The map itself can be an immediate turn-off for any unfamiliarized straphangar.
But exactly how do all these lines run underground, overlapping as they carry hundreds of thousands of passengers each day?
Tokyo University graduate student Takatsugu Kuriyama decided to answer that question be recreating an accurate three-dimensional model of Tokyo’s lifeline by using multi-colored tubes strung with wire.
Different color liquids pulsate throughout all 18 lines, creating a staggering picture of what goes on below the streets of Tokyo every day.
Matt Groenig’s artwork for Apple. Circa 1989.
For anyone unfamiliar, Apple hired Groening to produce illustrations for a brochure about Macs that was aimed at college students.
At the time, Groening was best known as the artist of the comic Life in Hell, as The Simpsons has not yet premiered.
The brochure was titled, ‘Who Needs a Computer Anyway’ and interspersed Groening’s Life in Hell style illustrations with standard information on Apple’s Mac computers.
It apparently was distributed amongst college bookstores and was obviously trying to use Groening’s cachet as an underground comic artist to attract hip, young co-eds.
A Version of events: Social Design. The New Backbone.
I love social. I love its honesty and humanity. Wrong social gets caught out very quickly.
Right social is effortless - trying too hard stands out like a sore thumb in what is, essentially, an extension of peoples’ lives.
Design. I keep coming back to it at the moment. A noble, professional craft, mindful of people and their lives.
Experience design, visual design, service design, information design, communication design and, now, social design.
No flim-flam. No smoke and mirrors. Just graft and empathy. A bit like being a vicar without the supernatural stuff.
Infographic: Jonathan Ives’ T-shirts Point The Way Forward
Poring over footage from Apple’s iPhone 5 announcement, pundits see a link between Apple’s elongated iPhone 5 form factor and lead Apple designer Jonathan Ives’ trendy neckline. Analysts correlate the link between current v-neck trends and what might ahempoint toward Apple’s future for the iPhone.
When asked about whether skinny jeans indicate the impetus behind the rumored iPad Mini, Sir Ives had no comment.
A Version of events: Advertising is dying. Long live design.
Advertising should become another part of the design resurgence: factual, demonstrative of design, pointing to deeper, online experiences, indicative of behaviours and reality. Sure there’ll be metaphor. Sure there’ll be bluster, probably for ever. But good advertising will be part of a bigger whole, an ecosystem of design that surrounds consumers and products.
I’d think of advertising now as Communication Design. To be done carefully, by considered professionals with a balanced view of the bigger marketing picture. Not at the heart of the ecosystem but in its margins.
Design, design, design. If your marketing company isn’t built around it then your days are running out. If you’re getting into our business now, look for the companies that have design at their core.
Design, creativity and technology.
Bob Dylan Subterranean Homesick Blues - A HAND LETTERING EXPERIENCE.
There are 66 cards done in one month during my spare time using only pencil, black tint pens and brushes.
The challenge was not to use the computer, no retouching was allowed. Getting a letter wrong meant starting the page over.
Sentence Drawings, designed by Stefanie Posavec, maps the text of Kerouac’s On the Road line by line, with subjects categorized by color.
Typeface design and lettering is imbued with subtleties.
During the process I drew many variations exploring different stroke finishes, joins, terminals, contrast and weight.
A small detail in a single letterform can be nice, but collectively details can change the tone of the logotype and become distracting, so I had to be careful.
The Dominant Colors of Common Website Qualities
Choosing colors for your website is no easy task. With so many colors and color combinations to choose from, where does a designer begin?
The color of your site is important because it influences how users feel about your site. Choose the wrong color, and you’ll repel users from your site. Choose the right color, and you’ll attract them to use your site.
To find the right color, you have to know what qualities you want your site to exude. Then you have to know the dominant colors that are strongly associated with those qualities.
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