Rocket Powered Mice has updated: beautiful and intelligent use of Flash.
This is how things really happen inside the flash interface. Let the battle begin!
Forget Lorem Ipsum for filler text, this one does it better.
Brusseline is the custom typeface designed for Brussels’ public transport company STIB/MIVB.
Beautiful gallery of old 78 rpm record labels. In those early days, there was a lot of hand-lettering.
A gigantic archive of old-school hiphop flyers from the early eighties.
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.
David Byrne talks about Enrique Penalosa, former mayor of Bogota, and the revolutionary work he did there for transportation and urban living.
Forget the film, watch the titles.
Master Plan, about the power of Google.
Not something you see every day: Custom Verner Panton S-Chairs in a church.
Over-design is creating public spaces that people don’t want to use
In the thirties, William Bushnell Stout designed the egyptian-inspired and art-deco-feeling scarab automobile.
In the thirties, William Bushnell Stout designed the egyptian-inspired and art-deco-feeling scarab automobile.
Terrorist organisation logos
Record Envelope – the little library of factory sleeves.
Fascinating slideshow on the evolution of type for road signs in the US.
It’s Design September in Brussels.
How can branding help (or hinder) climate change?
Lucien De Roeck was responsible for a lot of well-known early Belgian graphic design including, among others, the Expo 58 poster.
The men behind the classic sugar shaker.
British engineer designs own heart valve implant, saves own life.
I’d love one. Probably way over my budget though.
Emmit Fenn's "Who Dat" video shows a pigeon with pretty impressive moves. Nice use of CGI by Patrick Jean.
A long read, but worth it, on how technology reviews have pretty much turned into design fetishism rather than proper evaluation of functionality. It's true that bad reviews have become exceedingly rare.
This report argues that consumer technology reviewers have failed their basic nominal purpose of critiquing tools. Instead, inspired by values introduced by Apple in the late 1990s, the tech review industry prioritizes aesthetic lust as the primary critical factor for evaluating objects. The reification of these values in their scoring system is transmitted to consumers and manufacturers alike. Like other prurient things, the objects designed within this paradigm are optimized not for usefulness but for photogenic and telegenic properties, a framework that finds its fullest realization in YouTube reviews and unboxing videos.
Nothing new here but this video is a nice clear explanation of how dark patterns work. They're everywhere, and companies using them don't realise how much goodwill they lose from their visitors.
This is a fantastic idea: integrating tactile maps on pedestrian crossing buttons to help sight-impaired people get a lay of the land. These exact signal boxes are used here, but I don't think I've ever seen the map module on them. That's a shame.
