Monthly Archives: January 2008

The 3 C’s of Good Design

By admin | Published: January 17, 2008

(via Maeda’s blog in the Technology Review) Content: There needs to be a message or meaning. Everything needs a reason to exist, otherwise it shouldn’t. Context: Content doesn’t live in a vacuum. A Chanel bag sitting on a shelf at Wal-Mart will only confuse. Contrast: An element is made stronger when a counterelement is offered. [...]

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Nitro Group Killing It

By admin | Published: January 12, 2008

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: “Every interactive designer should know Papervision, and every Creative Director should be aware of its capabilities and limitations”. Case in point: Nitro Group. The Nitro Group site creates a beautiful infospace with a great sense of typography. Navigating the site really gives the user a sense [...]

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Oldie But Goodie

By admin | Published: January 12, 2008

With all of the interviews I had been going on in search of my new post, I had been referencing the magic of Blaise Aguera y Arcas’s TED 2007 talk. And each time I mentioned it, his demo got more complex – the classic “I once caught a fish syndrome”. Well I finally found it [...]

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New York’s Soul Survives

By admin | Published: January 8, 2008

New York’s Soul Survives: dailysession.com, a new online media source for New York’s underground music culture, helps reestablish the city’s collective soul. Dailysession is NISE Music’s newest venture. NISE is one of the most talented DJ/Producers in NYC right now and he’s devoting himself to fostering and promoting underground music culture in NYC. Download the [...]

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Maeda on Being Creative

By admin | Published: January 8, 2008

(from Maeda’s Simplicity Blog) So it dawned upon me how important it is to be a creative. Because it means you have within you infinite capacity to experiment. You are unafraid to go somewhere new because you are creating a new thought process about your own creativity. You know that if you stop and no [...]

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AEOLAB

By admin | Published: January 2, 2008

As I was looking through Maeda’s SIMPLICITY blog, I saw a post of Holiday Cards from his former students. The best was from aeolab. Upon checking out theirÂ site – they have some really cool projects for some really cool companies/brands. Check them out.

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The Year-End Mega Matrix

By admin | Published: January 2, 2008

Check out NY Mag for the end of the year Mega Matrix for 2007.

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Sad Times for ‘The Times’

By admin | Published: January 1, 2008

The New York Times recently made the decision to hire controversial Neo-Con pundit and PNAC (Project for the New American Century) member, William Kristol. This decision is wrong on so many levels but none more more than this: Kristol has consistently disregarded the truth while using his megaphone at the Weekly Standard, FOX News, et. [...]

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