Joe Pemberton // Designer, Mobilist, &c.
Posts tagged design
Design agency Edenspiekermann (cc @espiekermann) has strikingly simple statements of value. Any agency would do well to ask themselves: What’s holding us back from speaking so candidly about what we do, why we do it, and how we should be treated.
Why aren’t agencies always this candid about where they will be of value, and where they won’t? Because they are afraid: afraid of becoming irrelevant maybe, or afraid of offending potential clients. Edenspiekermann is a newish firm, but they speak with the maturity of principals who have been in business for decades. Four decades.
Data Lives! Cinemetrics are a visual fingerprint of movies.
“Cinemetrics is about measuring and visualizing movie data, in order to reveal the characteristics of films and to create a visual “fingerprint” for them. Information such as the editing structure, color, speech or motion are extracted, analyzed and transformed into graphic representations so that movies can be seen as a whole and easily interpreted or compared side by side.” – Flowingdata.com
“Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.”
– Thomas Edison
Edison understood this basic relationship of invention to utility and utility to human need.
Found it.
How to undo inadvertent Photoshop CS5 canvas rotation. (Why is this even a feature? And why can’t you simply Command-Z?) http://t.co/1UJHbRP7
In device UI design there is no substitute for viewing a design on the target display. Finally, with Google’s announcement of a real-time preview utility our designers can stop emailing PNGs to themselves.
Read the full write-up with download links at Punchcut.com
Font 005
In 2006 I art directed issues 004 and 005 of FontShop’s magazine, Font. I had forgotten how much fun it was to be given so much free reign in a publication. And I’m delighted to find a full PDF for download.
Oliver Weidlich’s (@oliverw) Continuous Experiences Presentation
Lecture by Charles Warren, User Experience Lead for Google’s Social Products discussing how the Google+ UX team used and evolved design principles to launch a useful product.
(Let’s ask him when we can expect Picasa to evolve past 2003-era web design.)
Andriod 4.0 ICS typeface “Roboto” gets a smackdown from Typographica
#Andriod #ICS typeface Roboto gets a #typographic smackdown from @stewf at @Typographica but designer @cr64 elucidates. http://t.co/A9GZKv9R
