Tag Archives: Design

algorithmic art tools

We all know processing, but there are some other intersting tools out there for creating algorithmic art. Alice Hackety Hack Max/MSP/Jitter openFrameworks Processing Pure Data Scratch VVVV

Street Art

http://jalopnik.com/5137364/roadsworth-street-art-painted-on-actual-streets

The Grid System

Great resource here: http://www.thegridsystem.org/ Remember to break it so it retains it power. Here is a preachy little quote from the site, “The grid system is an aid, not a guarantee. It permits a number of possible uses and each designer can look for a solution appropriate to his personal style. But one must learn how [...]

Thoughtpile

Herman Miller’s Thoughtpile: http://www.thoughtpile.org My thought: cool concept, but needs a little restraint – trying just a little too hard…

Information Design = Complexity + Interdisciplinarity + Experiment

Great article by Gerlinde Schuller over at AIGA “Information design is explained in only three languages in Wikipedia. The term is not even listed in Encyclopaedia Britannica. This shows that the discipline is still far from having established itself, although its approach is as old as the cultural history of mankind. Information design focuses on [...]

Adobe Photoshop Express = Lame

I have a great idea. Make a crap web-app, call it photoshop express and confuse your existing and new users as to what Photoshop is or does. Heck you can even remove red-eye… ugh.

Steve Jobs on Paul Rand

Interview of Steve Jobs about Paul Rand.  We love Paul Rand.

Industrial Drawings from the Smithsonian

Some great drawings: http://www.sil.si.edu/exhibitions/doodles/cf/doodles_alt.cfm