Multi-touch me, multi-touch you

Original photo by StrangrThanCandy
Multi-touch. It’s beginning to change how we think about interacting with computers and devices all around it.
In a land so young, what fruits can multi-touch bear for us? And are we ready for its ubiquitous debut?
Contextual feedback
So far the mass-market multi-touch screens we’ve seen in demos and on the street are all [...]

A Time to Kill Bad Slideshows

We’ve all been to grey old presentations where 1200 words are spat unto a slide in Comic Sans. Now’s the time to do something about it. Here are a few things I’m trying to spice up my slides.
 
 
MAKING SLIDES MEMORABLE
Use Text Sparingly

Original photo by dmodzelewski (cc)
The more and more I attend and give presentations, [...]

The Moment

The Moment, student short film for from Filmakademieby mikropikol
 
Adobe Premiere can do some swanky things like this. And here’s The Making Of.

Olnova Bold

For every Helvetica, there are clones like Olnova Bold. Olnova Bold is quite nice, though I’m on the fence on the e’s.. What do you think?

A sign of obsession

It appears I’m obsessed with signage. Just noticed recently. Blog post to follow soon. In the meantime, here are few of my favourite victims.

Best Catchphrase I’ve Read All Week


Five ring branding: Olympic posters through the years

With the Beijing Closing Ceremony playing away in the background, spare a few minutes to take a look at the Olympic posters of the past. A very nice retrospective of Twentieth Century design. Via Pat.

Scenes from a post-photowalk pub

So the Moo cards hit the table last Saturday in the Porterhouse after the photowalk, and I couldn’t stop thinking about this scene throughout. Of course, Eco Moos trump bone cards.

Blast from the past aka poster-making tips

I was digging around my old Photobucket account this morning, looking for a pic for a friend and I came across this blast from the past. Done in Fireworks too, with exact measurements so that the A2 would look okay. Lots of fun. Especially when trying to concentrate information into small but manageable chunks.
There’s a [...]

Banksy is a battleground for the classes

It seems that the London design fraternity is still going apoplectic over the identity of Banksy. It’s been a whole two weeks since the Daily Mail named Robin Gunningham as the man behind Banksy.
Banksy wants to stay anonymous for his own reasons. Perhaps it’s because he is a former ex-public schoolboy brat; a product of [...]

Sometimes the best presents are the smallest

Loving this little surprise gift that I got this morning. Who says big is best?

Could you solve a usability problem?

Developers, designers, technologists - we all harbour delusions that one day we’ll invent something akin to the light bulb for our respective industries, don’t we? Wouldn’t be nice to have a Tesla moment, where the future is inconceivable without that invention? Why not move in baby steps and solve a smaller piece of the puzzle, [...]

Socialism In Technocolour

I’m a sucker for old USSR propaganda posters. I love their brash colours and standout typography. Here’s a very fine Flickr set of them to flick through.