August 2009
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“Getting an iconic logo or strapline from a pitch process is akin to winning the...”
– Chris Heathcote, lights of London, talking about the branding for London exercise I mentioned earlier.
The whole thing is worth a read, and is a much more coherent take than the one I posted earlier. Of note is the fact that Chris properly conveys that Moving Brands are just one of many...
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Branding London
teflon:
A Brand for London
Moving Brands are pitching for the tender for a new brand for London, and are making their development work an open process via this blog.
Well, it’s a nice site, and none of the suggestions make me reel in horror, but: why does London even need a brand?
The about page has this image:
which apparently means we need a I♥NY style identity. Why, though?...
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IKEA abandons Futura for Verdana
lonelysandwich:
From Typophile:
IKEA abandons ~50 years of Futura and Century Schoolbook for Verdana. In an interview with Swedish design magazine CAP&DESIGN [translation here] the reason for the change is to be able to use the same font in all countries, including Asian countries. Also they want to be able to give the same visual impression both in print and the web.
I’ve never been a fan...
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“One New Change has been a particularly sorry project, because it involved the...”
– Jonathan Glancey: The Carbuncle Charles row is a gift to concrete mixers (previously)
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“Twitter feels like conversation, ephemeral, written on water, designed to fade...”
– russell davies: written in water, written on paper (via ruminant)
It took me three years to realise that ephemerality on Twitter was generally regarded as a feature.
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“The scientists said that [the women] were better suited than men to go into...”
– Jess McCabe in a mini-review of She Should Have Gone to the Moon for The F-Word. The comments mention a BBC documentary, Right Stuff, Wrong Sex, available at the BBC Archive site.
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What I Did On My Holidays: Galleries
I’ve taken a week off work, and so I had free reign to spend a day wandering around London, taking in art galleries. I managed to visit over a dozen yesterday, and so I thought it was worth recording what I saw, and what I thought of them.
Hayward Gallery - Walking In My Mind ★★★★☆ / Deceitful Moon ★★☆☆☆
The only paid show I saw all day, I was pretty impressed with Walking in my Mind....
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“Cracks – literal and figurative – are appearing in Poundbury, the heir to the...”
– Steven Morris and Robert Booth in a report in the Guardian: Cracks appearing in Prince Charles’s dream village in Poundbury (via)
In other words, it turns out the problems with housing are to do with cheapness and people, not modern architecture. I’m sure Charles will learn from this...
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“Generally speaking, Glasgow’s multi-storey blocks are solidly and economically...”
– Miles Glendinning in Red Road - Architecture in Detail.
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Tumblr Staff: Introducing Tag Channels →
Whenever I have a tag field, I use it, and I try to be consistent. So Tumblr finally having some sort of global support for tagging is nice. Because I was away today, I first noticed it when looking at other people’s posts on my dashboard (although this example is one of my own):
My first thought was “why the fuck are they using a hash in front of the tag? This isn’t bloody...
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Charles Windsor vs Jean Nouvel
iamdanw:
Prince of Wales tried to topple architect over St Paul’s
This story from yesterday’s Guardian hits two of my points of interest. First, there’s yet more of the heir to the throne’s meddling in urban planning. As the article notes, and the longer commentary piece makes clear, he’s done it before in that part of the city:
In 1990, he waged a successful...
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“Many of Apple’s products are ridiculed by tech geeks when they’re announced, but...”
– Marco Arment, following up Neven Mrgan, on people’s disdain for new Apple product.
The thing I note here is that the initial revision of the iPod was somewhat rubbish. It was the third generation, which had USB - and, probably more importantly, Windows - support that it became a mass-market...
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“Ironies and politics pile up in Agnes Denes’s 1982 work Wheatfield - A...”
– Liz Else, in the New Scientist review of Radical Nature at the Barbican (previously).
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Achievements Unlocked →
vexappeal:
I’ve started a new project to keep track of life and encourage activity, called Achievements Unlocked (pictured), inspired by a friend who suggested I “make a list of what you’ve done, rather than what you haven’t.” It’s a small, private Tumblr-blog that I let myself post on anytime I do something new or interesting.
What a good idea.
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“I wouldn’t be alive today if it weren’t for the NHS. I have received...”
– Stephen Hawking, quoted on Talking Points Memo: he likes his “Death Panel” Health Care just fine, thanks.
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“200 times as many COBOL transactions take place each day than Google searches –...”
– Stephen Kelly, COBOL – Still doing the business (via, via)
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“There might even have been an underground station called Selfridge’s....”
– David McKie in a piece on Comment Is Free: Your brand goes here.
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Simon Willison's Twitter client
I went through pages of history so you don’t have to. Sounds like it’d be pretty easy to copy.
Finally broke down and wrote my own stupid twitter client on the train… it does groups! (July 3rd) @rboulton as a matter of fact I did :) mongodb + about 100 lines of Python (July 3rd) Having your own Twitter client that saves tweets to a persistent store is AWESOME - group support,...
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Twitter and friend-only searches
Roo Reynolds posted a pair of photos (1, 2) to highlight a feature he says Twitter needs: searching the updates only of people you follow.*
I don’t disagree, but Twitter might find implementing followed-only search difficult. This is because Summize (the acquired company that provides their search functionality) is somewhat disconnected from Twitter proper: it still has own domain (which...
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“When users delete a post on Twitter, it disappears from their user profile but...”
– Tweleted: Making Mischief on Twitter in Time Magazine. I think I’ve remarked on this before, but it’s probably worth repeating.
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WatchGrant Hamilton’s trailer for Time Zero, his film about the last year of Polaroid instant film.
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Flash vs ffffound
Hey! Designers! You know how you like using Flash, because it stops people “stealing” your work?
Doesn’t work.
It does mean all of the attention ends up on some other site where people know how to use command shift 4.
Oh yes, it also annoys people who want to link directly to the source.
I’m sure that’s what you wanted.
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