Spring is here, it’s getting warmer, and there’s no end to the list of projects. This is 100% a problem of my own making. I’m OK with it, but it does sneak up on me at times. I’ll get a handle on it soon, I swear. For now–let’s tackle an easy one, more fun links
Graphic Design/Branding
Helions Brand Identity
Brand identity for a publishing house founded by the photographer Jack Davison.
Industrial Design
SUNNEI and Camper Launch PELOTISSIMA Multicolor Textile Sneakers
The perfect companion for a walking practice or just daily life, this fun shoe offers style and substance, with sustainability infused.
Sigma BF: The Beauty of a Simple Thing
…an uncompromising new vision for the digital camera. Stripped to the essence but packed with power, innovative yet rooted in the origins of photography
Design Thoughts
One step forward, two steps backwards
Even as we push forward with technology and better tools available everyday, we step in and purposefully “degrade” the outcome. None of this is by accident, it’s a deliberate aesthetic choice, a movement back to what feels more authentic, more tangible and perhaps more “real” to us.
Web Design/UX/UI
18f: aDe-risking Guide
This guide was written to give government tools to lower the high risk of failure for technology projects. It addresses two main challenges — how to choose a software solution and how to work with a vendor to build quality custom software quickly
We built UX. We broke UX. And now we have to fix it!
We didn’t just lose our influence. We gave it away. UX professionals need to stop accepting silence, reclaim our seat at the table, and design with strategic clarity, not just surface polish.
Architecture
Skaistakalnis Park / PUPA Life Over Space
New bridges and paths improved access to previously hidden areas, while new activity zones, refreshed greenery, and increased biodiversity made the park more enjoyable for citizens.
Typography
Font Spectrum is making futuristic typefaces that shift to make new forms
At this Amsterdam-based foundry, things go from readable weights to “decorative extremes” with imaginative methods of integrating motion.
Art/Sculpture
Blasting Books with High-Pressure Water, Guy Laramée Scales Mountains of Knowledge
Using a unique method of blasting antique books with high-pressure water and stripping them of their covers, he manipulates the bound text blocks into craggy cliff faces and rocky promontories.
Random
Infinite Mac
A collection of classic Macintosh and NeXT system releases and software, all easily accessible from the comfort of a web browser.