Recent Highlights 90
+ Beautiful (visualisations of) computer viruses
+ Joge-e: Two-way, right-side-up, upside-down faces from Japan
+ The changing spaces of childhood (psst: kids, go play in the park!)
+ The design process behind the online Monocle
+ 'On the Beach': the home movie version
+ Telecom (now Telstra) introduces the concept of broadband in 1992
+ News for Young Gen-Y People
+ Douglas Coupland's Corporate Safety Blankets
+ Milestones of information design by The World as Flatland
+ The Australian Milk Bar Challenge (+ Orbit Oblique review)
+ The Canadian Design Resource
Beautiful visualisations of computer viruses by Alex Dragulescu.
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Joge-e: Two-way, right-side-up, upside-down faces from Japan.
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"The mental health of 21st-century children is at risk because they are missing out on the exposure to the natural world enjoyed by past generations." The changing spaces of childhood (psst: kids, go play in the park!).
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An exhaustive, in-depth post of epic proportions on the design process behind the online/digital Monocle. By Dan 'War & Peace' Hill.
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"Fred Astaire, Donna Anderson and Anthony Perkins sign autographs for patients from the Frankston Orthopaedic Hospital." 'On the Beach': the home movie version. Shot at Canadian Bay, Mount Eliza, with real stars.
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Telecom (now Telstra) introduces the concept of broadband in 1992.
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"We found that there are three key things that young people seek when they are consuming media. That they can participate, that they can express themselves and that if they contribute to the site, the prospect that they could become famous."
Fairfax launches the user-contributed Gen-Y news site The Vine.
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Douglas Coupland's Corporate Safety Blankets. Mmm... warm... not. Via Monocle.
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Milestones of information design by The World as Flatland. Thanks Mark Seggie.
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The Australian Milk Bar Challenge continues at Daniel Neville and His Theories of Nevolution and Intelligent Design (an Australian design and typography blog). A few good type-related links at that site too. I've not come across the Fontef Photolog before. There's also a review of the current Letterbox show too.
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The Canadian Design Resource. Thanks Mark Seggie.
That Monocle piece is exhausting. I had to sit with it for a long time. It's interesting yet not surprising of the length they went to when designing the site, magazine and system. Say what you will about the fashion fascist over and undertones of the magazine, they ARE getting it right.
Posted by: Daniel Neville | 18 April 2008 at 10:10 PM