February 2012
3 posts
£25 for a logo?! →
Like many other products and services, it’s never going to be too hard to find a cheaper option. But, as the painfully obvious saying goes, you get what you pay for. Buy a cheap car, it’ll break down more often. Buy a cheap meal, it won’t taste very nice. Buy a cheap haircut… you get the idea.
But is there a place in the industry for logo design being sold in this way? Unfortunately, we think...
December 2011
2 posts
Inspiration vs. Imitation →
Fantastic piece on unintentional copying by the super-awesome @jessicahische.
November 2011
7 posts
Paul Shaw on The Kerning Game →
The first time I tried KernType I didn’t realize what the “rules” were until I had failed at several of the test words. But even after that my scores were often pathetic. I think I only got four of the ten test words right. However, when I looked at the solutions that MacKay proposed I didn’t feel so bad. I disagreed, sometimes violently, with them. My failed scores began to look like a badge of...
Apple's aesthetic dichotomy →
When Steve Jobs first introduced the iPhone - perhaps his greatest product presentation - he joked that the iPhone was an iPod with a rotary dialing system on the front. It was deliberately absurd, and the audience duely delivered the anticipated laugh. (I’m reliably informed that an early prototype of the phone actually did feature such an interface.)
But no one laughs when Apple delivers...
“Individuals do not seek satisfaction from products, from their actual selection,...”
– Campbell (via ieatshampoo)
The Tweaker — the real genius of Steve Jobs. →
Jobs’s sensibility was editorial, not inventive. His gift lay in taking what was in front of him—the tablet with stylus—and ruthlessly refining it. After looking at the first commercials for the iPad, he tracked down the copywriter, James Vincent, and told him, “Your commercials suck.”
“Well, what do you want?” Vincent shot back. “You’ve not been able to tell me what you want.”
“I don’t know,”...
October 2011
3 posts
“Market research is what you do when your product isn’t any good.”
– The Man Who Inspired Jobs
September 2011
18 posts
“Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long”.”
– Kenzo Tange (via beingeclectic)
The Dark Art of Pricing →
The Phraseology Project →
Pretty ace hand-lettering of user-submitted phrases by Drew Melton, Ray Brown, Pat Perry, Geoff Holstad, AJ Paschka and Jeremiah Britton.
“Learn from the past, think of the present, dream of the future.”
– Massimo Vignelli (via designboom)