Instructions:
1. Stare at the red dot on the girl’s nose for 30 seconds.
2. Turn your eyes to a plain surface (your ceiling or blank wall).
3. Blink repeatedly and quickly.
(Source: nevver)
Apple and Google as Creative Archetypes
“The Google model relies on rapid experimentation and data. The company constantly refines its search, advertising marketplace, e-mail and other services, depending on how people use its online offerings. It takes a bottom-up approach: customers are participants, essentially becoming partners in product design.
The Apple model is more edited, intuitive and top-down. When asked what market research went into the company’s elegant product designs, Steve P. Jobs had a standard answer: none. “It’s not the consumers’ job to know what they want,” he added.” nytimes.com
I’ve always felt that Google was only successful (at first) with this way of working only because it “designed” by simply avoiding it almost entirely. If your interface is nothing, nobody can dislike it. At the same time, it had great engineering behind that nothingness.
No Title Required by Robert Ryman - Google like results? Nobody can hate it. What is the it?
Apple, to its own detriment, sometimes messes around too much in the interface area then stalls and ignores problems. But the combined consistency of interface and hardware is the key. By its very nature, Windows could never match the hardware on various levels. Design being, an important one.
Boby Trolley by Joe Colombo - a clear idea, functional results, likely zero customer feedback in its design.
All three approaches are certainly valid for doing business. But I would not call Google’s approach a “creative archetype”. There is little creative in it.
Nice Web Type
Nice Web Type is one place for web typography, following experiments, advancements, and best practices in typesetting web text.
Typedia: A Shared Encyclopedia of Typefaces
Pretty handy.
Apple’s Massive Numbers And Some Context
“At over $400 billion, Apple is now worth more than Greece”
TechCrunch
Graphic designers do not charge enough!
Independent designers need to think like lawyers, tax preparers, doctors, and plumbers do when it comes to charging for our services. We need to be capitalistically professional about it and charge for every minute we do anything for a client.
If a job takes 40 hours, what does it cost a designer to live for a week, plus expenses, insurance, healthcare, retirement savings, emergency savings, plus a small profit?
This is a business that provides value to the client. We live in a country that is business obsessed and we need to be nice but also steadfast on this.
Get that contract signed too.
If we all did this, designers would be a lot healthier, a lot wealthier and the value of design would increase.
Your Resume vs. Oblivion - WSJ.com
A must read. The new totally horrible reality of sending in a resume to a company. This HR nonsense at corporations must miss some spectacularly terrific candidates that don’t match the brain dead computer’s desires on paper but who would be the next Steve Jobs or other great innovator at a company. Insanity!
The World’s Most Exclusive Condominium
“A condominium is a territory jointly administered by two or more countries, often (but not necessarily) a territory on the common border between the parties involved.”
Four open questions about iBooks Author
Even more important questions about iBook Author being crippled by Apple.
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