Category Archives: design

Lovepixel

Beautiful, huge and fun-to-explore pixel town -if you happen to be a financial analyst or a stockbroker with 4 fancy flashy wide-screen monitors sitting on your desk, this is the time to use them!

Best of Tokyo Design Week 2007

PingMag has selected the best 20 ideas of thiis year’s edition of the Tokyo Design Week. I really love two of them:
> Abake’s ‘Limo typography’

‘limo typography’ is, at first glance, a simple black screen with several slots in it. But when you and your buddies jump behind it, you can stick your arms through the […]

Lies, lies, lies

Top ten lies told to designers
1 “Do this one cheap (or free) and we’ll make it up on the next one.”
2 “We never pay a cent until we see the final product.”
3 “Do this for us and you’ll get great exposure! The jobs will just pour in!”
4 On looking at sketches or concepts: “Well, we […]

Spanish ‘creativity’

The Spanish Government has a new logo: that one of the German Government.

Check it out at Spiekerman’s blog and here.
PS: The name of the father(=designer=’imitator’, but breaking the proportions) has not yet been disclosed, though he already has €12K in her/his pocket.
**Update: Juan Repollés of the Design Agency ‘Margen‘ is the author of the ‘clone’ […]

Japanese posters in Berlin

I’ve just read in BerlinDesignBlog that the Kunstbibliothek am Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz hosts an exhibition on Japanese posters until Sept. 2nd. -Damm it, I didn’t see it till now.
First thing to do on my return in mid August.