one.point.zero - Colin O'Brien's weblog
February 12 2008
Lucien De Roeck was responsible for a lot of well-known early Belgian graphic design including, among others, the Expo 58 poster.
January 21 2008
What do you know, the Google logo was actually designed. I thought they’d just typed it in photoshop and played around with the bevel effect.
October 14 2007
How can branding help (or hinder) climate change?
September 11 2007
It’s Design September in Brussels.
August 17 2007
Fascinating slideshow on the evolution of type for road signs in the US.
August 09 2007
Record Envelope – the little library of factory sleeves.
July 09 2007
Terrorist organisation logos
July 08 2007
Tube ticket redesign
Some great ideas in the tube ticket redesign competition at The Serif. I particularly like the one below.
Brussels’ tickets could seriously do with a redesign too.
May 22 2007
An interview with Peter Saville“I have no opinion of Coldplay. I'm 50. I didn't ask my dad what he thought of Roxy Music. I'm more interested in Newsnight than the V Festival.”
April 30 2007
Why Apple is bad for design.
April 28 2007
In the thirties, William Bushnell Stout designed the egyptian-inspired and art-deco-feeling scarab automobile.
April 25 2007
Over-design is creating public spaces that people don’t want to use
April 15 2007
Not something you see every day: Custom Verner Panton S-Chairs in a church.
February 12 2007
Master Plan, about the power of Google.
January 20 2007
Forget the film, watch the titles.
January 09 2007
Attention to detail on Apple's iPhone“I actually have a photographer's loupe that I use to look to make sure every pixel is right”
October 27 2006
The crazy 35km cooled bicycle path in Qatar.
October 19 2006
David Byrne talks about Enrique Penalosa, former mayor of Bogota, and the revolutionary work he did there for transportation and urban living.
September 30 2006
Pingmag has an enlightening article about design for blind people online and in Tokyo. There are similarities to some of the devices I’ve seen deployed in Brussels but they seem several steps ahead over there.
September 23 2006
A gigantic archive of old-school hiphop flyers from the early eighties.
September 09 2006
Beautiful gallery of old 78 rpm record labels. In those early days, there was a lot of hand-lettering.
September 03 2006
Brusseline is the custom typeface designed for Brussels’ public transport company STIB/MIVB.
June 14 2006
Forget Lorem Ipsum for filler text, this one does it better.
June 08 2006
This is how things really happen inside the flash interface. Let the battle begin!