Dieter Rams, designer - Cold War Modern on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Really nice little documentary (clip) about Deiter Rams. This man did wonders for product design and his work can be seen as the major inspiration for all Apple products after 1997.
Fantastic online exibition summary of the New York Transit Museaums ‘The Future Beneath Us” exibition. Interesting read, especially for someone who longs for an underground in manchester.
The Personal Cost of Designing on Spec
A great article on designing on spec.
IE NetRenderer - Browser Compatibility Check
I found this wonderful site the other day. I only use a mac, and have done for the past few years, so I never get to see what web sites I work on look like to the majority of users. This site allows you to get renders of what your site looks like on Internet Explorer 5.5 - 8.
After pumping www.alastairogle.co.uk and www.thearcashed.co.uk through this service I was able to realise that most people were viewing something really ugly. However I was able to use this tool to reformat the websites to make them appear as intended.
Fantastic tool and I would highly recommend it to any web designer who uses a mac or someone who doesn’t have multiple installs of Internet Explorer.
Very pretty electric motorbike designed by fuseproject.
Great wrapping paper but even better, it’s from lovelypackage.com which has inuendo written all over it.
Fontifier - Handwrite your own font
Yes, I am a fan of fonts it has to be said and I am usually against script fonts but having your own handwriting in a font does seem appealing. I will hopefully be making my own illegible font tomorrow!
Update:
I have tried to create a font and it is not pretty, maybe I will try bitfontmaker instead.
Post Architecture Magazine
An interesting read to any architypes. The publication appears to be yearly too which might sound a little unambitious, however they are 50 pages of good content.
The PDF downloads are easier to read and recomended, but the online flash pager viewer does look nice and pretty and might be more usable on a large monitor.
Interesting talk on Comics and its adaption to new media. While I am not a big comic fan I enjoyed the discussion about representing time, sound and space within comics. I can not help but feel that there is an architectural lesson in this somewhere…
Recession in charts
While a bust will always follow a boom, I hate the way that this recession appears to be the worst and one that could have easily been avoided.
