FAIL Design on the JFK AirTrain:
I had the opportunity to team up with the folks over at Drop.Io over the summer for a redesign and brand-study of their entire application and I can’t say enough good things about Chad, Sam and the entire Drop.io team. They’re a super-smart, super-passionate bunch of geeks and they deserve all the good things that [...]
When going to a trade-show it’s natural to feel hyped about the products on display. Every car show I go to I leave convinced that now is the right time to buy that 2-seater I’ve always wanted – but it never is – it’s just the hype. Trade shows have been honing the craft of [...]
They’re subtle, but they’re there. Google has finally realized that users need to be able to refine their search and manipulte the data-set they’re returned not just see one very long list. I’m currently working on Search/Research for a client and now that I see this through the lens of the requirements we’re working with [...]
Still Enjoying SF, originally uploaded by victor.brunetti.
Enjoying PTO in SF, originally uploaded by victor.brunetti.
(via Archinect) This ground-breaking symposium has been organized to address the role of urban design in the face of one of the most profound and important challenges facing global society: the need to re-imagine and rethink how cities are designed and organized in a future without the plentiful and abundant oil upon which prosperous urban [...]
I’m loving this guy’s blog lately and I encourage adding it to your Google Reader. Keep an eye on this one. Outside of his own design research blog Serial Consign, Greg co-curates and edits the digital arts publication Vague Terrain and is a regular contributor to Augmentology 1[L]0[L]1. He has also written and edited for [...]
How can we use the data visualization and information design resources to understand the processes governing contemporary cities and better manage them? What can we learn from studying traffic and pedestrian movement flows through the streets of Madrid? What would happen if we filled the streets with screens providing information updated each moment about water [...]
(thnx forz for pointing this out) A lot of designers regard the practice of infographics as dull and boring — but this is almost certainly because they’ve never tried it. The 10 we spoke to, and whose work we’ve used to illustrate this feature, love what they do and believe it offers as big a [...]