Degrees of Publicness directly links to privacy on Facebook. Its the people with completely public profiles, for the world to see. These are the extroverts. Then the middle group, those who have maybe 5-10 photos available to view without a friend request. You can see their name, where they are mutual friends, and usually their…
David Nuff – Canadian Designer
David Nuff, who simply goes by Nuff, is a Toronto based designer and artist with experience in design branding, illustrations, and interactive art, among other hobbies. Though he has a Bachelor’s in Modern Languages and Fine Arts from St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, he has been designing for over ten years. His clients…
Devices of the Future
This is how I imagine John Scalzi’s futuristic device looks like + his BrainPal
Computing Demo
Englebert and his team really changed the way people interacted with their computers. I think the most profound idea is the mouse. The made the option available to go back to any point in a document with one easy motion. You could also use it to navigate in different ways. It made the drag-and-drop feature…
Early design techniques
The great early designers such as the Eames, Gerstner and Sutnar were so good at what they did because they used the iterative process to create designs that put human functionality before form. They also wanted to design ways to bring quality at an affordable price. The Eames chair evolution was evidence of this. Using…
Ada Lovelace – The First Programmer
Ada Lovelace was the daughter of the well-known poet Lord Byron, born in 1815. Though it was very unusual in her day for women to receive an education, Ada studied science and math from a very young age. Her parents did not want her pursuing the arts, and always supported her love of science. She…
El _ Memex Reflection
The Memex, designed by Vannevar Bush was the first way to “link” information through a machine. Bush envisioned a system where one could pull up two different sources of information, and digitally link them. This was the first hyperlink, which later became a staple of the internet. In the early 2000’s, blogs were blowing up,…
El – Manifesto
Art should be for everyone, regardless of class or economic status. Design should help with this. Design should be focused on redesigning what is broken before designing new systems just to patch up the old. Design should focus on how to design less products. How do you redesign waste and disposable mindsets? Design should be…
Movable type
It’s important to understand how print design, which is the grandfather of webpage design, got started. And that all stems back to moveable type on the printing press. This really solidified the design-by-grid method that has become a staple. Whether it’s become a staple because it’s good, or because we are used to it, I’m…
Bibliography- Early Cave Paintings turned Modern day Icons
Early cave paintings are some of the first marks we have found left by humans of long ago. Whether they were used to tell stories, give information, as art, or all of it, they remain a fascination of designers today. How do you convey so much information with just the few simple lines of an…
From Old World Icons to the Apple Music App
I looked at the apple music app for this exploration. I thought it was interesting how they seem to go back to basic human emotions for some of their icon, while others adhere to a much more recent set of iconography. Their use of the sound bars for radio and the triangle for play are…