Jewish Memorial, Berlin, Germany.
Jan 2012
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My design process for the new shirt “Don’t Just Stand There”
At the Jewish Museum, Berlin, Germany.
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There’s just a tremendous amount of craftsmanship in between a great idea and a great product. Designing a product is keeping five thousand things in your brain and fitting them all together in new and different ways to get what you want.
And every day you discover something new that is a new problem or a new opportunity to fit these things together a little differently.
Steve Jobs
The best web design of recent memory.
Wall sculpture and random music stand at Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Deutsche Oper Berlin spray-painted on some equipment backstage.
Lietzensee, Berlin.
Move over IMDB
“Letterboxd is a social site for sharing your taste in film.”
This is the direction that IMDB should have taken: a way to make movies social for movie-lovers. (And who’s not a movie-lover these days?) Instead, IMDB continues to glop up their site with ads and other distractions. The biggest eyesore of all being their outdated design.
The user interface of Letterboxd alone has me hooked in a time when it’s hard to handle even one more social network.
The day a thermostat wowed the design world
How bad do you want one of these thermostats? I’m waiting until we get home to Connecticut so I can see if we’re able to install one. Oh, and the Nest website is a thing of beauty as well: http://www.nest.com/
There’s a great article in the NYT about the company, formed by ex-Apple execs.
Don Carlo, Oct 23rd @ Deutsche Oper
A Chevy in Berlin
What We Believe
- That it takes a whole lot of effort to make something seem effortless.
- That your identity is more than a logo, a typeface, and a color palette.
- That if you buy quality you only cry once.
- That, in an ideal world, you should be able to judge a book by its cover.
- That you have to work hard in order to get it right.
- That you can always learn more. And you should always try to.
From Alexander Isley’s “What We Believe”
Listen to Debbie Millman’s Interview with Alexander Isley on Design Matters.