It’s like OneLaptopPerChild (OLPC) meets some ultra-thin net book. This web book functions as a laptop and a folded easel, and offers a ton of different usage scenarios, as well as simple sleek interface. Pentagram’s NYC shop designed everything form the GUI to the packaging. Droolzzzz!! In fact, the lead creative director is Lisa Strausfeld [...]
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Advertising’s New Mantra: ReDesign the Experience
“You cannot NOT have a user experience.” — Lou Carbone We experience the digital world as timely, relevant, useful, and personable. I can find out exactly what my friends are doing as they do it via Twitter or Facebook. Or grab directions to a restaurant and concert tickets on the go through my mobile phone. [...]
The Best Of Annoying Design, Part I: design
This blog called “Annoying Design” is three years old now, which in internet years is an adult dog. I use this site as sort of a professional diary — a place for thinking, and focusing on what I have to offer the world. I’ve decided what I have to say is more broad than just [...]
Good Design is…
If you own an iPod you’ll know Dieter Rams’ work by absorption. He was the head of design at Braun, the German consumer electronics manufacturer, and influenced Johnathan Ives, who designed the iPod: His “ten commandments” for good design focuses on simplicity and minimalism. This is a list a lot of industrial designers know, but [...]
Using Existing Infrastructure For Clean Energy
[Image via S. J. Alexander] Great designs thrive within constraints, and this is why I’m so in love with a French design team’s idea to place wind turbines within existing electrical towers. Because with this design idea, they’ve overcome some of the biggest hurdels that wind power faces: how do you make room for large [...]
Using Tools to Structure Creative Efforts
Zeus Jones is one of my favorite marketing groups because they realize that advertising by itself is annoying, but that design, social content, and tools are useful — and the best way to reach an audience. In their own work they use tools as well, to help structure creative efforts. It’s really interesting how this [...]
