Interaction Design In The Cloud
Smashing Magazine, a great resource for designers, published an interesting article about services that solve for prototyping and wireframing. Both are elements within my process that feel clunky. I’m hopeful that in the future Adobe Muse may ease some of the frustration I encounter. But, I’m not sure if I’m going to take the dive ...
Saul Bass’ Bell System Pitch
This video was produced by Saul Bass to pitch the brand executives the Bell System logo redesign. The first 13 minutes of the video provide a great primer on identity design. The actual pitch starts around 13:00. I really appreciate how Bass presents his work and explains why he made the choices he did. He briefly ...
Breakfast, Interrupted
Every year the Marlin Network host a breakfast during the National Restaurant Association Show. Breakfast, Interrupted is a video invitation for an artful interpretation of the meal we know as breakfast. The event will take place May 21st at 8:00 in the Chicago Art Institute. The creative folks at deep dreamed up the idea behind ...
Coca-Cola’s 125th Anniversary Design
Coca-Cola is 125 years old. They are celebrating by giving their packaging a makeover, the result is a beautifully nostalgic design. The new can features the glamorous Varga girls of the 1940s. Kudos to Bulletproof for the great work.
9 tips for Mobile Optimization from Opera
Bruce Lawson is an Opera web evangelist. Today at SXSW Interactive he gave a presentation about “Web Anywhere.” Here’s a list of things Bruce mentioned as a good rule of thumb for any mobile site deployment. Don’t use tables. Tables do not work well on limited screen sizes. Give image dimensions in HTML This is ...
SXSW Interactive 2011 Visual Notes
Ogilvy & Mather has a team of skilled graphic recorders that are documenting the key elements from each session or panel during SXSW Interactive 2011. The wonderfully visual notes are being created by visual notes leaders Heather Willems and Nora Herting of ImageThink, supported by Ryan Robinson, Sunni Brown, Lisa Sorsa and Stephanie von Dressler. ...
