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100 Colors, 100 Writings, 100 Days | Design Observer
"Every day for one hundred days (from October 30, 2008 to February 6, 2009) I picked a paint chip out of a bag and responded to it with a short writing."
writing  design  illustration  story  designobserver  rachelbarger  from instapaper
7 weeks ago by blech
Marx at 193 | Interconnected
Matt Webb: "the Airblade, in order to achieve its own efficiency forces all of its users to adopt identical movements, removing autonomy from millions to save money for the owners of the establishments in which it is installed. I have been roboticised."
marx  marxism  dyson  airblade  design  robot  surplusvalue  economics 
7 weeks ago by blech
mncaudill/3bitdither | Github
"This demo currently uses two different error-diffusion dithering algorithms: Atkinson's and the Floyd-Steinberg algorithm. Error-diffusion means that the algorithm goes pixel by pixel, rounds the individual R, G, and B channels to either 0x00 or 0xff, and then distributes those differences (which the algorithm calls the "quantization error") in differing amounts to pixels further down the line. It being a 3-bit dithering means that your red, blue, and green channels are represented by a single bit (off or on), giving you a total of 8 colors."
newaesthetic  design  code  javascript  image 
7 weeks ago by blech
The pxl effect with javascript and canvas (and maths) | Rev Dan Catt
"As part of a bigger project I wanted to generate an abstract background image/texture." "Recently the pxl app for iPhone has filtered through my friends. It allows you to apply a variety of abstract compositions to your photos, a popular one turns an image into a collection of triangles, a general effect that should work well, and allow us to create a large background image out of a relatively small source image." Nice work there.
newaesthetic  design  code  javascript  image  twitter/capture  via:@revdancatt 
7 weeks ago by blech
The Digital↔Physical: | Craig Mod
Subtitled "On building Flipboard for iPhone and Finding Edges for Our Digital Narratives", this is a great essay on the process of building things digitally, documenting it, and what's left behind of art.
design  digital  flipboard  book  publishing  record  archive  twitter/capture  via:@shashashasha 
8 weeks ago by blech
Watercolor Textures | stamen design
'@stamen's Geraldine writes about "a mix of the hand and the computer" behind creating textures for the watercolor maps'. There's been a whole week of posts about the various maps that's fascinating.
map  mapping  design  art  stamen  from instapaper
8 weeks ago by blech
Time and Place. Foundations for a new blog. | Ben Ward
"In extracting these buried fields and denormalising them into my post files I was able to think—as a purist—about how posts should be represented online. Especially for my circumstances. I have opinions, y'see." Timezones, pagination, and flow. Good stuff.
place  time  timezone  data  metadata  blogging  aesthetics  design  information  twitter/capture  via:@BenWard 
8 weeks ago by blech
Thoughts on Pagination | Nolan Caudill
"Having a pagination scheme that closely models how a stream is sorted can give you both the casual browsing experience that the numbered pagination provides, as well as powerful navigation abilities that the numbered pagination can't provide." Yes, this.
web  design  pagination  navigation  archives  nolancaudill  from instapaper
9 weeks ago by blech
You Can't Fuck the System If You've Never Met One | Casey A. Gollan
I don't really know how to describe this free-wheeling post about systems, games, and so on, so perhaps you should just go and read it.
caseyagollan  system  systems  design  games  technology  from instapaper
9 weeks ago by blech
Fold It | Pen & Think
"Using a special PNG as a mask for an img element with a background-image property, you can turn flat-looking static maps into nifty skeuomorph-ized paper objects."
css  design  map  image  web  via:migurski 
9 weeks ago by blech
The London Terminals: Kings Cross | London Reconnections
"The opening will not mark the final completion of the Kings Cross project – that will not come until late 2013 when the green canopy that currently hides the impressive facade of one of London’s oldest stations will finally be removed. It will, however, arguably mark the biggest point of change for passengers – because from Monday the way-finding through Kings Cross will change significantly." The usual worthwhile look at a public transport project.
london  kingscross  railway  engineering  architecture  design  londonreconnections  via:iamdanw  from instapaper
10 weeks ago by blech
The Future According to Mead | The Architect's Newspaper
Craig Hodgetts: 'Joining the throngs of the faithful as they jostled for a better view of his paintings, and searching in vain for even one fellow architect, one could not help wondering why the place was not swarmed by young designers. And one was reminded once again of just how insular the architects of the “Me Generation” had become. On display were images depicting cityscapes and buildings that might have been snatched from the most recent international competitions. Lustrous metallic surfaces, twisting towers, parametric volumes, all hauntingly beautiful, and all bearing dates—wait for it—from the early 1970s and ’80s!'
sydmead  sciencefiction  images  architecture  design  art  future  from instapaper
11 weeks ago by blech
maraid's stuff tagged with olympics | flickr
Matchbox labels celebrating the Olympics: "Matchbox labels from around the world but the majority are Eastern European from the 1950s and 60s."
flickr  images  olympics  matchbox  illustration  design  art  topost 
11 weeks ago by blech
The Right Fit | Los Angeles Review Of Books
"By taking the space suit as a topic, then, de Monchaux stakes a claim for architecture as a wider pursuit — one that does not presuppose buildings. In the same period as the Apollo space suit’s production, architecture was undergoing changes of its own. Technical professions like engineering came to develop more and more of what might be thought of as the real machines for living: standardized components, HVAC systems, tempered glass — the real architecture." A good review of my favourite book of last year.
book  review  spacesuit  architecture  design  space  technology  human  from instapaper
11 weeks ago by blech
A Case Study In How Infographics Can Bend The Truth | Co.Design
How you slice the x dimension of a graph of, say, tax take can massively change the way people perceive the result. (I'm tempted to suggest that the only good way to do it is income deciles, but there's probably a case when there's a reason not to do that.)
design  graphics  infographics  politics  economics  via:@tomcoates  from instapaper
11 weeks ago by blech
Railway engineering: the nuts and bolts of hidden beauty | The Guardian
Sarah Bakewell: "Once I saw merely bridges, tunnels and stations, and mostly I didn't even notice these, so busy was I rushing to get over or through them. Now, I see a delicate ecosystem of rivets, cleats, plates, gussets, joggles, spans, arches, ribs of attenuated iron and steel. Scholars can already study railway archives in repositories all over the country, but Network Rail has just put part of its beautiful archive of Victorian and Edwardian infrastructure diagrams on the web."
uk  railway  design  engineering  victorian  illustration  plan  drawing  guardian  via:@joemoransblog 
12 weeks ago by blech
Two Kinds of Gestures | Phillip Bowden
"Anointing a group of gestures as “First Class” implies that there’s at least a second class. These are the gestures that shouldn’t be used a primary interface mechanism. Second Class Gestures seem disconnected from their resulting action or state change. They seem arbitrary and opaque in much the same way as keyboard shortcuts on the desktop. They usually require a reference or tutorial to learn, and even then after some amount of repetition." Good thoughts here on designing gestures for interaction on touch screens.
design  interaction  ios  touchscreen  mobile  from instapaper
12 weeks ago by blech
How to make custom maps? Learn by doing | Alastair Coote
"Every time I wanted to show the user’s current location this ridiculously bright Google Map showed up and ruined my carefully cultivated style. Something had to be done." Alistair Coote tells you how to do it.
maps  mapping  design  development  from instapaper
february 2012 by blech
Design Perfectionists at Home | NYTimes.com
The captions on the photos are hilarious, and there are some good laughs in the first few paragraphs, but there's a good deeper point in this post about minimal and perfect homes.
architecture  living  design  culture  perfectionism  minimalism  nytimes  from instapaper
january 2012 by blech
The Rise of the New Groupthink | NYTimes.com
"Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place."
nytimes  work  employment  productivity  creativity  thought  office  design  workplace  from instapaper
january 2012 by blech
The Very Model of a (LEGO) Architect | Architectural Record
"Tucker, who designs stone-faced architecture sets for Lego in his Arlington Heights studio and has created 11 kits so far -- from a 546-piece replica of Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House in Plano to a relatively modest, 208-piece Guggenheim Museum -- had delivered, as promised, another retail-friendly Lego interpretation of iconic architecture. In fact, it was his biggest, most ambitious set yet.
lego  architecture  design  toy  building  via:antimega 
january 2012 by blech
The best American wall map, by David Imus | Slate Magazine
"So what makes this map different from the Rand McNally version you can buy at a bookstore? Or from the dusty National Geographic pull-down mounted in your child’s elementary school classroom? Can one paper wall map really outshine all others—so definitively that it becomes award-worthy? I’m here to tell you it can. This is a masterful map. And the secret is in its careful attention to design."
map  cartography  design  us  tobuy?  from instapaper
january 2012 by blech
Apple's aesthetic dichotomy | Made by Many
"My question is: why does this approach not extend to the devices themselves? Why not make a wooden case for the iMac, like those hideous Sony TVs from my childhood? Or why not a case that makes the computer look like a typewriter? And why, when we have these beautiful, clean, efficient devices, do we put up with this horrific, dishonest and childish crap?"
apple  design  skeuomorphism  iphone  ios  interfacedesign  from instapaper
december 2011 by blech
cityofsound: Journal: Passport Control to Pimlico
Dan Hill on Pimlico. When I worked just over the Lambeth Bridge I got to wander through the area a bit, and I was lucky enough to do a walking tour looking at the various social housing with Owen Hatherley. There's a good section on second housing, too.
london  housing  architecture  design  living  danhill  from instapaper
december 2011 by blech
#walkshopping (winter edition) | Matt Edgar
"We made a walkshop! At sunset on Tuesday, undeterred by George Osborne, high winds and torrential rain, 17 of Yorkshire’s finest designers, technologists and geographers gathered to walk and talk, to see Leeds in a new light." Sounds good.
leeds  architecture  environment  cities  design  from instapaper
december 2011 by blech
You Say You Want a Devolution? | Vanity Fair
"For most of the last century, America’s cultural landscape—its fashion, art, music, design, entertainment—changed dramatically every 20 years or so. But these days, even as technological and scientific leaps have continued to revolutionize life, popular style has been stuck on repeat, consuming the past instead of creating the new."
newaesthetic  design  technology  culture  via:stml  from instapaper
december 2011 by blech
The Design of Symbols | NYTimes.com
Reviews of Otto Neurath, Symbols and Ex Libris, a collection of bookplates. Useful if your coffee table needs a refresh, probably.
books  review  nytimes  design  infographics  from instapaper
december 2011 by blech
The Unlikely Event, Avi Steinberg | Paris Review
"For those of us who occupy that metaphysical middle ground between the in-flight magazine and the barf bag, there’s the airline safety card." "A [1960s] Air France card directs passengers to the closest axe—no further directions are given." A delightful piece about safety instructions, how they've changed, and their parallels with art.
transport  aeroplanes  design  art  safety  instructions  via:straup  from instapaper
december 2011 by blech
from @jwheare | Exquisite Tweets
"An API is a valuable cure to the stagnation of growth." Thoughts on large service API design.
twitter  api  design  evolution 
december 2011 by blech
The point of Twitter | Infovore
"I signed up for this product because it made mass-texting people when I was in town easy, and led to lots of serendipitous drinking and hanging out when I was in the city. On the radio last year, I heard someone explain Twitter as “a tool for following famous people and seeing what they’re up to“. It’s interesting how the product described in the new app feels like the product described by that radio pundit: a consumption tool."
twitter  tomarmitage  service  design  from instapaper
december 2011 by blech
You Aren’t Who You Hang Out With | Mike Industries
A fine suggestion for recommendations based on similarity of taste, not on who you know.
design  recommendations  taste  from instapaper
december 2011 by blech
Dencity | Fathom
"What does seven billion look like? Dencity is a map of global population density as the world reaches this important milestone."
map  data  design  cartography  population  poster  tobuy? 
november 2011 by blech
The Sketchbook of Susan Kare | NeuroTribes
"the artist who gave computing a human face" says the subhead, and it's not far off being true. There's some lovely pixel work here.
illustration  design  pixels  susankare  macintosh  history 
november 2011 by blech
A Point of View: The euro's strange stories | BBC News
"With the euro in turmoil, writer and academic Mary Beard explores the odd tales from myth and history told on the currency's coins." The rape of Europa by Zeus and other stories.
bbc  news  comment  marybeard  coins  currency  design  culture  stories  from instapaper
november 2011 by blech
A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design | Bret Victor
"This little rant isn't going to lay out any grand vision or anything. I just hope to suggest some places to look." "Are we really going to accept an Interface Of The Future that is less expressive than a sandwich?"
design  future  interaction  ui  ux  bodies  via:tomtaylor 
november 2011 by blech
Kenneth Grange - Making Britain Modern | Design Museum
"Kenneth Grange is Britain’s leading product designer, his prolific career spans over 50 years and he is responsible for designing some of the most iconic and familiar products and appliances that shape our daily lives." Closes 30th October.
london  design  museum  todo/gone  from delicious
september 2011 by blech
UC Planners Envision “Bay Line” Park | Streetsblog San Francisco
Speaking of the High Line, this proposal for a new urban area on the Bay Bridge is somewhat interesting, very Gibsonian, but utterly impractical. Still, that's kind of the Bay Area all over.
sanfrancisco  sfba  baybridge  bridge  park  design  architecture  planning  from delicious
september 2011 by blech
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bruces: http://t.co/D9oAWQU *The elite among urban "stuffed animals" #GothicHighTech #Chic #NYHighLine
newyork  newyorkcity  highline  park  urbanism  design  architecture  from instapaper
august 2011 by blech
Design Firm Seeks to Humanize Technology - NYTimes.com
Alice Rawsthorn on BERG, in the IHT (and on the NY Times site).
berg  design  nytimes  from instapaper
august 2011 by blech
The diverging diamond interchange | Slate Magazine
Tom Vanderbilt on a new kind of intersection that's being used a lot for new roads in the US, where drivers apparently have a morbid fear of having to either stop, or wait for more than a single phase change. Still, it's interesting.
us  traffic  transport  road  design  infrastructure  via:iamdanw  from delicious
august 2011 by blech
What the Home Front posters of WW2 still mean for us today | Quad Royal
"There were a huge number of posters produced during the war, and so the relatively few we pick out end up telling us as much about ourselves and our present day anxieties as it does about the war." A really good essay at Quad Royal on WW2 posters and what they mean to us now. (I'd love to see a similar post for the US, too.)
uk  poster  art  propaganda  society  austerity  modernism  design  via:mondoagogo  from instapaper
july 2011 by blech
DesignWorks USA / BMW Fleet of the Future | BART
"DesignworksUSA is the design-consulting division of BMW Group. In collaboration with BART, it will conceptualize the next generation of BART trains from the inside out, conveying a style, shape and functionality that reflects the needs of customers and the future of transportation in the Bay Area."
sanfrancisco  sfba  bart  train  design  bmw  from delicious
july 2011 by blech
The nytimes they are a-changin' | phillmv
"Due to an errant cron task that ran twice an hour from September 2010 to July 2011, I accidentally collected about 12,000 screenshots of the front page of the nytimes.com." "As a rule of thumb no one is storing their frontpage layout data. It's all gone, and once newspapers shutter their physical distribution operations I get this feeling that we're no longer going to have a comprehensive archive of how our news-sources of note looked on a daily basis."
newspapers  nytimes  video  design  time  from delicious
july 2011 by blech
55 Broadway's Future Under Review | London Reconnections
"The continued occupancy by London Underground of 55 Broadway, its iconic headquarters, is currently under review. The Grade 1 listed building, which includes St James Park station, is widely regarded as one of Britain’s finest pieces of architecture – one of the lasting legacies of Frank Pick’s time at London Underground." Sigh.
london  underground  architecture  design  history  heritage  from delicious
july 2011 by blech
Henry Beck Rules, not OK? | Max Roberts
A 27 page PDF by Max Roberts studying how - and how not - to design a diagram of a railway system. Given the "London Tubemap" that's been doing the rounds, tl;dr types should skip to page 14: "The arbitrary breaking of the single-angle rule introduces an disorder into the design with no payback." It also contains some of Beck & Roberts' alternatives, such as the attractive 60 degree version on p12.
london  underground  maps  design  history  tube  pdf  commentary  via:tomc  from delicious
june 2011 by blech
Week 315 | BERG
Somewhere between eight and four years ago, Matt Webb took the single-minded focus of the geek and applied it to learning how to run a business. This is the result (except 'result' is the wrong word, because as this post makes clear, it's still a process). It's fascinating, and slightly daunting, but well worth reading.
design  business  berg  studio  from delicious
june 2011 by blech
The Faux-Vintage Photo: Full Essay | Cyborgology
"We have associated authenticity with the style of a vintage photo because, previously, vintage photos were actually vintage. They stood the test of time, they described a world past, and, as such, they earned a sense of importance."
photography  design  culture  art  hipstamatic  atemporality  nostalgia  from delicious
june 2011 by blech
The Gorge - Electricity Pylon Design
Flash Bristow's guide to the changes in British pylon design over the last eighty years or so. This was the best bit of another Jonathan Glancey Guardian piece: http://gu.com/p/2p972/
uk  design  architecture  infrastructure  electricity  energy  guide  pylons  from instapaper
may 2011 by blech
On Pylons | Exquisite Tweets
Various architecture critics on Twitter debating pylons and classic modern design.
twitter  commentary  architecture  design  pylons  electricity  via:mondoagogo  from delicious
may 2011 by blech
Could pylons ever be pretty? | BBC News
The BBC, starting from a false premise (that pylons aren't pretty already) and going down a complete blind alley (some unbuilt, anthropomorphic, and awful designs) before revealing a couple of interesting nuggets (like the name of the chap who designed the UK's current pylons). Still, overall worth a read.
uk  infrastructure  energy  electricity  pylons  design  via:candacep  from delicious
may 2011 by blech
TermKit | MetaFilter
MetaFilter's commenters do a very good job of pointing out why TermKit, much as it's pretty, is actually a pretty bad idea.
unix  terminal  design  philosophy  critisism  from delicious
may 2011 by blech
erik spiekermann. the face of type | bauhaus-archiv
If I were any closer to Berlin than I am, I would be making an effort to visit the city just for this. As it is, this is somewhere between a recommendation and a lamentation. Ah well.
berlin  exhibition  events  todo/done  typography  fonts  design  via:mattb  from delicious
april 2011 by blech
Automatic Generation of Destination Maps | Visualization Lab
" Handdesigned destination maps include only the most important roads in the region and are non-uniformly scaled to ensure that all of the important roads from the highways to the residential streets are visible. We present the first automated system for creating such destination maps based on the design principles used by mapmakers." Interesting, and similar to LineDrive (which I only found out about yesterday).
maps  mapping  directions  design  from delicious
april 2011 by blech
Finding Music With Pictures | storify.com
A nice collection of some of the visualisations that Paul Lamere's SXSWi talk on music and discovery covered.
sxsw  design  music  visualisation  graphics  notes  from delicious
march 2011 by blech
new ways to see and communicate | Bloom
The obligatory link to the new thing by Ben Cerveny, Tom Carden and more. Originally I didn't notice there was more stuff further down the page, so do scroll down.
data  design  infographics  visualisation  html5  from delicious
february 2011 by blech
Priority for the Cyclist | Design 1973 Journal, VADS
I'm amazed that I haven't bookmarked this before: a 1973 article in Design magazine, from the London College of Communication. "In their blind devotion to the interests of private cars and goods vehicles, Britain's traffic planners have forgotten the pedal cyclist."
london  history  design  bicycle  cycling  from delicious
february 2011 by blech
Tiny Useful Things: MyTravelMaps | designswarm thoughts
"I’ve been using Google MyMaps for about 4 years now, mapping out the cities I visit and live in with pins that often relate to food and culture. ... They do however feel like the lonely Google project noone cares about. I think there is so much they could do with it if anyone cared about the implications of those maps during a travel experience. They have the data, it’s only a question of layout and a little intelligence. So I thought I’d try designing what clicking “print” should give you." This is good.
maps  google/maps  printing  printondemand  design  everyoneiknowisdoingawesomeshit  from delicious
february 2011 by blech
Travel Journal | Joseph Johnson
"New York / London / San Francisco 2010 is a self-initiated publication documenting my travel during 2010. The aim was to communicate my experiences to others by outlining my daily activities and exhibiting my photography." Looks interesting (particularly the map design and the London photos).
book  photography  travel  design  from delicious
february 2011 by blech
Isotype: international picture language | Victoria and Albert
While I'm listing exhibitions in London that I can't go to, in the hope some of my friends will, this roundup of the work of the Isotype group was one of the highlights of my visit to MAK in Vienna last summer. It's small, but worth a look, particularly for the book covers by Marie Neurath.<br />
Closes 13 March 2011.
london  exhibition  art  design  infographics  information  history  from delicious
february 2011 by blech
Shape my language | Design Museum
"Located in the Design Museum cafe and atrium, the Shape My Language installation combines a display by renowned type designer Bruno Maag, from the typeface and logo design agency Dalton Maag, with images from his work on the Ubuntu font project" I wanted to see this in Vienna, but I got there a week too late. Now it's in London, and I'm not. If you are, you should go. (If necessary, you can sneak in to the shop without paying.) <br />
Closes 28 February.
london  design  designmuseum  art  typography  ubuntu  from delicious
february 2011 by blech
On River Maps « somethingaboutmaps
Lately I’ve been working on a series of river maps, done in the style of Harry Beck‘s famous London Underground design.
maps  cartography  geography  rivers  design  via:iamdanw  via:straup  from instapaper
january 2011 by blech
Redesigned | BART Ticket Kiosk
"We redesigned the BART ticket kiosk. Our goal was to improve the user interface software within the limitations of the existing 8-button, ATM-style physical interface. We believe our design offers major usability advantages, especially for infrequent riders." Interesting.
design  bart  usability  interface  transport  via:iamdanw  from delicious
january 2011 by blech
Scott Pilgrim vs the World | The Art of the Title Sequence
I think it was only at the third time I watched this that I realised how nicely each of the film-scratch sketches map out the characters. It's a really good sequence (and, with a lot of the other things in the movie, surprisingly subtle).
movies  animation  design  interview  from delicious
january 2011 by blech
Railway Alphabet by Kinnear and Calvert | Quad Royal
Spacing rules for Rail Alphabet, discovered recently. Lovely.
uk  design  typography  railways  poster  from instapaper
january 2011 by blech
Judith Schalansky: Atlas of Remote Islands | Asylum
"Here is one of those books which defies the current bookworld gloom." This sort of sums up what I'd write about the book.
book  design  geography  cartography  maps  germany  from instapaper
january 2011 by blech
"Funny Games" Poster Designer Akiko Stehrenberger | MUBI
"I was thrilled to get an email this week from Akiko Stehrenberger, the designer of my favorite movie poster of the last decade. She had been told by friends about her chart-topping appearance and agreed to do an interview for this column." There's some good bits in here about fighting back against "more is less" thinking in poster design.
design  film  poster  interview  from instapaper
december 2010 by blech
Doyen of type design: The most-read man in the world | The Economist
"Mr Carter sits near the pinnacle of an elite profession." On type design.
economist  typography  design  from instapaper
december 2010 by blech
Utopia | Charlie's Diary
"It seems to me that one of our besetting problems these days is that there's a shortage of utopias on offer." To summarise the post would be to drain it. Just go and read it.
sciencefiction  design  future  utopia  via:preoccupations  from delicious
december 2010 by blech
Analysing a Touch-to-Desktop UI port | Daniel Kennett
"Someone came out with a Mac OS application that’s clearly a touch UI crowbarred into a point-and-click universe. And it doesn’t work." A good post by Daniel Kennett using Fitt's Law to start explaining why "touch UIs typically simply don’t work in mouse-driven environments", in the light of a bunch of Mac App Store ports by iOS developers. <br />
(Of course, Apple fans have spent the last few years deriding Windows tablets/slates/things for trying to go the other way with insufficient work. We'll see if they're resistant to the inverse.)
apple  macosx  ios  development  ui  interface  design  via:rentzsch  from delicious
december 2010 by blech
My iPad Magazine Stand | Subtraction.com
"I couldn’t email, blog, tweet or quote from the [New Yorker iPad] app, to say nothing of linking away to other sources — for magazine apps like these, the world outside is just a rumor to be denied." It's good to see influential people continue to say stuff like this. (See also http://notes.husk.org/tagged/ipad for previous witterings on this topic.)
ipad  magazine  publishing  internet  design  digital  via:celia  from delicious
october 2010 by blech
Design Research Unit 1942-72 | We Made This
A review of the Design Research Unit exhibition at the Cubitt Gallery, London. Sounds small (it doesn't look like it covers the Victoria line design work, which I've lamented before is woefully underdocumented) but also interesting, if you can get to it. As with the Guardian article, check out the accompanying photography.
london  design  exhibition  history  from delicious
october 2010 by blech
Design Research Unit: the firm that branded Britain | guardian.co.uk
"You may not have heard of Britain's most successful design group, but signs of its work can still be seen on streets, pubs, railways and tube stations – quite literally" Make sure to check out the gallery, especially the crazy South Bank architecture plan.
guardian  britishrail  design  history  branding  uk  article  alsopostedon:ffffound  from delicious
october 2010 by blech
Processing.A4 | Basil Safwat
A version of the Substrate Processing code to paper, from Papercamp 2 in London.
papercamp  processing  design  programming  code  paper  via:blackbeltjones  from delicious
october 2010 by blech
Charles Holden's Designs for LT | Time Out London
The V&A doesn't have a page for this, so: "A display about the work of Charles Holden and his architectural practice Adams, Holden and Pearson, focusing on the designs they produced for London Transport. Featured are designs for stations created for the Northern line extension during the 1920s and the refurbishment of Piccadilly Circus station, London Underground's headquarters at 55 Broadway and the iconic, Art Deco stations Holden created for the Piccadilly line extension."
london  architecture  design  londontransport  charlesholden  v&a  exhibition  from delicious
october 2010 by blech
Styled Maps Using Google Maps API Version 3 | 41Latitude
"Perhaps the best feature of Google Maps API V3 is that you can now remove select map elements. Why is this API V3’s best feature, you ask? Well, because it allows you to remove map elements that are not particularly relevant to your mashup. " This looks like a very useful guide, with examples.
google/maps  maps  design  google  json  development  api  from delicious
october 2010 by blech
Fixing the Bus System | Artsy Techie
"As a puzzled, stressed and curious newcomer, whether I quickly and fully embrace a system, or whether I avoid it for a long time is an interesting measure of how “usable” the system is." An interesting look at some issues that put people off buses. (I'd say London does reasonably well on these, assuming you speak English, but it's far from perfect even so; nobody knows about the five bus maps you can get, for example.)
transport  technology  bus  cities  urbanism  design  via:antimega  from delicious
august 2010 by blech
The transformer: principles of making Isotype charts | Hyphen Press
"The visual work of Otto Neurath and his associates, now commonly known as Isotype, has been much discussed in recent years. This short book explains its essential principles: the work of ‘transforming’, or putting information into visual form."
design  information  visualisation  isotype  ottoneaurath  marieneaurath  book  tobuy  toread  from delicious
august 2010 by blech
Variety of American Grids | Discovering Urbanism
"I wanted a nerdy planning-related poster for my wall (other than the periodic table of city planning), so I made one this week. I scoured Google Earth and measured that quintessentially American grid in about fifty downtowns around the country." There's a surprising variation in block sizes across the cities.
cities  us  design  architecture  planning  urbanism  via:zimpenfish  from delicious
june 2010 by blech
001 London | Outline Editions
"The big city through the eyes of Britain’s leading graphic artists. View and buy the work on this website or visit our pop-up gallery, 7 Marshall Street, London W1 7EH." Closes 3 July, 2010.
london  art  exhibition  gallery  todo/gone  design  illustration  from delicious
may 2010 by blech
NY Subway System Is Getting a New Map | NYTimes.com
"Next month, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority will unveil a resized, recolored and simplified edition of the well-known map, its first overhaul in more than a decade." First reaction: it's a lot less cluttered. Looking back, the MTA's subway map has veered a lot more since '68 than the London diagram, but this is way better than the '79 nadir.
nyc  newyork  mta  subway  underground  maps  diagram  design  transport  information  from delicious
may 2010 by blech
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