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Rhetoric of Design Patterns
Persuasive Design Patterns Posted on March 24, 2010 by Lloyd Morgan|Jump To Comments The Design with Intent toolkit is a guide to help you design systems to influence a user’s behaviour. The author, Dan Lockton, has subtitled the toolkit 101 Patterns for Influencing Behaviour Through Design. Categorised into the following eight ‘lenses’ (ways to look…
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Create Denver Week 2010
Create Denver Week, April 10 – 17, seeks to personify the claim that Denver is the Creative Capital of the Rocky Mountain West. Create Denver Week kicks-off with the 5th annual Create Denver Expo on Saturday, April 10. With the help of the creative community, Create Denver Week will: Showcase Denver’s talented and dynamic creative…
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Tracing Dieter Rams influence on the work of Jonathan Ive for Apple
When you look at the Braun products by Dieter Rams—many of them at New York’s MoMA—and compare them to Ive’s work at Apple, you can clearly see the similarities in their philosophies way beyond the sparse use of color, the selection of materials and how the products are shaped around the function with no artificial…
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HELVETICA | Independent Lens . PBS
HELVETICA | Independent Lens . PBS http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/helvetica/filmpage.swf Helvetica Helvetica. It’s everywhere: this typeface spells out tax forms, labels, street signs and company logos. More than half a century old, this ubiquitous font emcompasses the worlds of design, advertising, psychology and communication. HELVETICA explores the places, people and history of the font, revealing a new and…
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Julian Bleecker and Design Fiction
Julian Bleecker “Design fiction” (Lift Asia09 EN) on Vimeo (via Vimeo) Design fiction: facts about science and designJulian Bleecker who works at Nokia Design is imagining the near future, creating “design fictions” and prototypes of networked artifacts such as objects that blog about their interactions with the environment. This presentation is about the relationship between…