This Nutty iPhone & Mac UI Concept Wants To Replace iCloud With Gorilla Arm Syndrome

Transferring files from your Mac to your iPhone is supposed to be an easy process thanks to iCloud, but sometimes the lack of a physical connection between your devices can make the process feel daunting.


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Inspiring Collage Artworks

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Typography tutorials: 50 clever ways of working with type

This round-up of typography tutorials has a central theme of experimentation. Learn how to design a headline typeface, create isometric 3D lettering and to smelt your favourite font.

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HELSINKI: World Design Capital 2012 - NOW!

Open Helsinki: Embedding Design in Life

The news came on 25 November 2009: Helsinki had been appointed the World Design Capital for 2012. From the start, our application had emphasised openness, continuity, collaboration and the social dimensions of design. These same themes remain the basis for all our activities.

What is the World Design Capital?

While there are many awards that recognise individual accomplishments in design, the World Design Capital (WDC) designation is unique as it aims to focus on the broader essence of design’s impact on urban spaces, economies and citizens.

The Organisation

The World Design Capital initiative promotes and supports the cultural, social and financial uses of design. The title is assigned every other year by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid).

Open Helsinki - Open City

Like every city in the world, Helsinki exists for its people. An enjoyable urban culture is the result of many factors, perhaps the most important of which is openness.The concept of Open Helsinki is literal – a city where information, ideas, thoughts and people can move freely without unnecessary creativity-hampering obstacles.

Global responsibility: the new role of design

Design can be old or new; large or small. Pretty or controversial. Visible or invisible. Design often also has a social or public dimension. For example public transport, municipal and private health care, political systems or schooling would not work without proper design.

Roots of the new growth

The term 'embedded design' is one of our points of departure. It means expanding the realm of design from products to various systems and public services such as healthcare. Embedded design also focuses on taking users' needs into account from the very initial phase of design.

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The Evolution of the Geek

Flowtown - Social Media Marketing Application

Brilliant!!!

The Pringles Package Sucks. This Chip Can Blooms Into A Bowl

Young designer Dohyuk Kwon encountered the same problem we all have before: He was enjoying a package of Pringles potato crisps until, suddenly, he found the chip level had sunk to a critical expletive-laden stage just below the reach of his fingers. “So I sketched a more convenient package of chips,” he tells Co.Design. Read on here...

Here's to the crazy ones...

The Car Guard Song - Derick Watts & The Sunday Blues (Eminem feat. Rihanna Parody)

The Most Astounding Fact (Neil DeGrasse Tyson)

FRIDAY ON MY MIND

 Here are some pictures in which people are holding suitable album cover to create an optical illusion. You have to be precise while taking such photographs, put album cover in a perfect position and dress like artist in the album cover.


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COMMON PITCH

Submissions Open for COMMON Pitch South Africa from COMMON on Vimeo.


COMMON and Design Indaba, one of the world’s leading design events, are excited to bring COMMON Pitch: “A party to fix the world” to Cape Town, South Africa on February 29, 2012. Featuring 10 selected entrepreneurs teams pitching their innovative concepts for social enterprise live on stage at City Hall, COMMON Pitch: South Africa will celebrate the freshest business + design solutions to some of the biggest opportunities in Africa today - with the winners taking home a combined $25,000 US (R200 000) in prize money to launch their business.


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Red Eye - A visual diary documenting a flight from New York to Berlin (with a layover in London)

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'I FINK U FREEKY' by DIE ANTWOORD

This Is How You Sell Products Now: Low-Budget, Heartbreaking Stories

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LINOTYPE - the film

"Linotype: The Film" Official Trailer from Linotype: The Film on Vimeo.

Just the trailer thus far.

The Humans are Dead

We Use Way Too Many Fonts - MASSIMO VIGNELLI

Transcript

Question: Why have you argued against the proliferation of new fonts?

Massimo Vignelli: Well you know, you have to know a little bit more about the history of typography, or type, and how it came about.  You know, it was invented at the end of the 1400’s, you know, the Guttenbergs, so to speak, and then for 200 or 300 years, it went with very few different type faces.  You know, very elegant, and that’s it. Some publisher had the type and printer and publisher was all one thing.  And there were very few also because it was very difficult to cut type, you know, it was cut by hand and not tools besides the chisels, so to speak, and the type was this small, so it was a very refined kind of operation to do.  And because it was refined, it was quite elegant. There was no room for vulgarity to get into it.  So, the basic typefaces done in those years like Garamond, like Baskerville and so on.  They were quite elegant—very elegant, actually, typefaces. 

Then the Industrial Revolution comes about and then you can do the type in an industrial way and with the help of machines, and so on and so forth. And then because you could do it, people start to do it.  The foundry started to do more type and therefore they had to sell it, to offer it.  And they found the right victim in the advertising people, which they thought that they should use a different typeface for every different client.  They should not have two clients with the same type.  God.  And so that went on and on and that became a business just wallpapers, you know, it became a business to make typefaces.  And then because of that, you’ve got typeface designers, people who got into the business, they like it and the create nonsense type, things that were totally useless and things of that nature and on and on and on and on. 

And so eventually, you understand, that the reason that there are a lot of typefaces is just because there’s a business, not a need.  So, you begin to sift, sift, sift, sift, and you begin sifting to see which one are appropriate for one use or another and basically, as you know, the typefaces are divided into two categories, which are called serif, the one with the feet, and sans serif without the feet, the straight one.  And between one family and the other family you begin to pick out the best, and at the end when you pick out the best, you wind up with about a half a dozen, or a little more of typefaces.  And those are good, those are good for everything.  Each one of those families are very large, you know, so they are of the same typeface you have are very thin or very big, they are straight or italic, which inclined, and things like that.  So yes, there are only a good maybe a dozen.  I’m very generous today since I think they – but there’s no more than a dozen, actually I don’t use much many more than three or four in my life.  That is the thing. 

However, exceptionally sometime I might use some other too.  But not really much more than that a dozen of good typefaces and the rest you can really trash it from a design point of view.  However, it’s a business that keeps a lot of people alive and what do you want to do, what would they do otherwise?  So, let them do type if they like it.  The only thing that is important to understand is when to use it and when not to use it, or what to use.  And a good designer can come to it, you know.  And they can really very well along with a few typefaces.  Every good designer doesn’t use more than a few typefaces and when they’re less good, the number increase.  And if they’re worse, then use all of them.

Question: Having starred in the documentary “Helvetica,” were you surprised by its success?

Massimo Vignelli: Yeah, definitely, I was surprised and very, very, very pleased too.  But it’s incredible by how many people really liked the movie.  People that had nothing to do with design, and how useful it has been.  You have no idea the amount of people that mentioned this movie to me, everywhere in the world.  I got email from everywhere in the world talking about it.  I don’t say many things. 

In the disc, if you get the disc, at the end there are extras, which are better then the whole movie, really.  It was terrific.  So, if you get the disc is fun.  Any how, what is clear you see, Helvetica was born in 1957, around that time, you know, 1955, for the very precise reason I remember, before Helvetica, I was using similar typefaces and cutting together close, because we like the type to be closed.  But typefaces, they came with shoulders at that time, and the great invention of Helvetica was to be make the shoulder very, very tight so you could put the type – and it’s the only type that had that, that’s why. 

When we had that type that we could do that; that was B.C., Before Computer.  Now with computer, you can even do that. You can do anything.  But at the time, it had to be done by cutting.  And so I lost a lot of type ****, a lot of letters by cutting and gluing and so on.  But when Helvetica came about, that could be done fine and that is why it was so successful.  And I started to use it and use it and the more you use it the more you learn how to use it, it’s just like a piano, the more you play it, the more you learn how to play it and the better player you become.  And so it is with the type.  And it is a great typeface, it will last forever.  You know, there are others, some people like other variations of it.  I’m happy with it.  And I think it will last hundreds of years, you know.  And there are people will write with this.  Along with the ... along with the Garamond, along with the few of the great classic typefaces.  And that’s it, until we [stop writing] those faces will be around, I guess. 

Early Typography - pre digital

Bleisatz Video Tutorial from Lukas Loss on Vimeo.

Student protests turn violent

Students and security guards at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology’s city campus clashed on Tuesday as a protest about registration fees turned violent.

Students were pepper-sprayed and one collapsed after inhaling it. She was rushed to hospital and her condition was not known at the time of going to press.

The trouble started at about 10am when about 35 students affiliated to the SA Students’ Congress (Sasco), gathered at the campus to protest against the R5 000 registration fee.

Security was called in to disperse the group. The students refused to budge and the security guards, who numbered about 10, pepper-sprayed them.

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