Robothon 2009

For those of you who are interested in type design and technology, LettError has posted videos from the conference on blip here.

Spring Cleaning

I had fallen behind on maintaining the NADE blog so I decided to post several links in one post. I am still playing with the idea of doing larger weekly posts with fewer daily posts, we’ll see how it works out, till then enjoy the below.

NYT’s review of Vandal Squad event at PowerHouse Arena on Thursday.

Is Print Dead? Interesting commentary on e-Books and the future of print. In addition, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer moves from a print to strictly web presence.

A step back in terms of design on the web, the Readability plugin. Thank you Underconsideration.

A great insight on how designers solve problems and organize their thoughts, Sketchbook: Conceptual Drawings From the World’s Most Influential Designers, coming out in May. Thank you Design Observer.

Science meets Design Theory at SEED Magazine.

“Typography is the core of graphic design, but is often neglected. Supplement your design education with typographic tools and inspiration from FontShop.” A great resource for students, expand your design education at FontShop.

SVA MFA in Interaction Design suggested reading list. Thank you Kottke.

Brooklyn We Go Hard

Beautiful typographic treatment for the new Jay-Z video by Evan Roth.

Blog posting from Evan Roth here. Source code, yes source code, here.

NYC: Landscape Architecture Transformation

An interesting article on James Corner and his firm Field Operations describing the reclaiming of the abandoned High Line and the transformation of the Fresh Kills landfill, both into parks.

Read the article at Metropolis here .
(Link also includes a photo gallery of the High Line by Olef Wolberger.)

Corner’s firm Field Operations can be found here.

Sagmeister at TED

Carson + Hillman

Another short piece by Hillman Curtis, this time on David Carson, beautiful as usual.

Future of Web Design, NYC

“The Future of Web Design brings together leading talents from the world of contemporary web design to share their knowledge and insight. An audience of over 800 professional creatives will listen to the people who have designed some of today’s most successful sites.” – AIGA

Future of Web Design
November 3-4 2008
Roseland Ballroom
NYC

Speakers include:

Rey Bango (jQuery & Mozilla)
Hillman Curtis
Ryan Singer (37signals)
Nicholas Felton (Megafone)

A full list of speakers listed here.

Media of past events here.

Video also at Vimeo and YouTube.

Simplicity

Having just finished reading The Laws Of Simplicity and picking up Maeda at Media it was great to stumble across (thanks to swissmiss) the above video of John Maeda at the TED Conference.

Visit the The Laws Of Simplicity site to view all the laws.

Some excerpts from The Laws Of Simplicity book:

“”What program do you use?” is a question I often get about the slides I use to present my work. I have concluded that the proper answer to the question is to counter-suggest the asking of a different question, “What principle do you use?”"

“We all want to “wow” people from the beginning with the newest bells and whistles in an amazing new product, but sometimes “wow” can become “woah” and you need an aspirin to cope with the anxiety of the overwhelming aspects of the new.”

“The best designers marry function with form to create intuitive experiences that we understand immediately…”

“Good design relies to some extent on the ability to instill a sense of instant familiarity.”

“The opportunity lost by increasing the amount of blank space is gained back with enhanced attention of what remains”

“While great art makes you wonder, great design makes things clear.”

“Complexity and simplicity are two symbiotic qualities.”

“With an open system, the power of many can outweigh the power of the few.”

“…technology is an exhilarating enabler, it can be an exasperating disabler as well.”

“Life may be complex, but in the end, life is simple…”

Behind the curtain

Interview with Philip Apeloig on TypeRadio.
[link care of Swiss Legacy]
Philippe Apeloig’s work can be found here.

WIRED ran a nice short on the design process of the new Seagate extrenal drives here.

NYTimes slide show on John Maeda’s design process for one of their covers here.