Posts tagged design
What is the marker of good design? It moves. The story of a successful piece of design begins with the movement of its maker while it is being made, and amplifies by its publishing, moving the work out and around. It then continues in the feeling the work stirs in the audience when they see, use, or contribute to the work, and intensifies as the audience passes it on to others. Design gains value as it moves from hand to hand; context to context; need to need. If all of this movement harmonizes, the work gains a life of its own, and turns into a shared experience that enhances life and inches the world closer to its full potential.
Kind of a cool idea - “Designed by Audun Ask Blaker, the Lineær clock initially looks like any other clock, but upon closer inspection you find out that the time is written on a continually rotating scroll, emphasising that time is in perpetuity.”
Matthew Graham let us know that Chris Wallace included us in his three laws at Lift - we’re honored!
We’ll admit it - we’re bursting at the seams about the launch of our new Harvest for Mac today! Get in on it now: http://www.getharvest.com/mac
This was a nice find by our own designer Kim Ku - nice!
blackklungs: Minimal Mac keyboard by Daniel Gray
Famous logos and how they’ve changed over time - and where they could go in the future (as envisioned by the Huffington Post).
Graphic designer Ruth Tsang illustrates how she spent her idle time, from 2010.
real touch feedback, cool idea.
This Thermometer Lets You Actually Feel The Temp OutsideThe Cryoscope Haptic Weathervane, created by Robb Godshaw of Syyn Labs, conveys the temperature by allowing you to experience it. Syncing with Wi-Fi to online weather reports, you can touch this aluminum cube to actually feel the outside temperature rather than simply reading about it through numbers or whimsical sunshine icons.
This watch stops time. Well, sort of. Designed by Chinese industrial designer Tao Ma, the “Play & Stop” watch utilizes a play/pause button in its center that, when pressed, stops the movement of the hands, or allows it to resume at the current time. Remove the distraction of racing against the clock!
Thank you “Executive Jewelers” - why sure, it DOES seem important to know the time on both Earth and Mars!
via superpunch2: Watch keeps track of time on Earth and Mars. Via.
Apple through time - woah.
via curiositycounts: Every Apple design ever, in 39 seconds. (via)
This book, Cartographies of Time: A History of the Time Line, looks amazing. Among the many images, it includes the above timeline, which we’ve always loved:
Published in 1869, this endures as Charles Joseph Minard’s most famous graphic, featuring two diagrams that depict the size and attrition of the armies of Hannibal in his expedition across the Alps during the Punic wars and of Napoleon during his assault on Russia. The faded-red color band indicates the army’s strength of numbers, with one millimeter in thickness representing ten thousand men. The chart of Napoleon’s march also includes a measure of temperature.
“Waste Not a Moment” watch by Tibor Kalman/M&Co (via Kim Ku)
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