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Last week, we brought you news of Pentagram’s cutting-edge flash logo for an art museum in North Carolina. Now, designer Jeroen Krielaars of the Dutch firm Calango, has shared with us his new animated typeface Moshun (Mo-shun, ya' get it?) -- further evidence that multimedia is revolutionizing graphic design, from branding down to type itself.
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The Office for Metropolitan Architecture, the Rotterdam firm headed by super-starchitect Rem Koolhaas, has released conceptual plans for a massive arts district in Hong Kong. The scheme -- a competition entry -- is a tangle of museums, theaters, artists’ space, pedestrian bridges, and shops embedded in an impossibly huge public park. If it wins, it’ll be one of the largest examples of Koolhaas’s handiwork in one place, which for design junkies is like calling it Valhalla.
In an age of shaming gadgets that clock your appliance power draw and e-wallpaper that declares your wastefulness on a wall, it’s easy to feel like a jerk just for switching on a task light at work.
We've got some shocking news for you. Are you sitting down? Okay.
The very same politicians in Congress shouting that energy-policy reforms are tantamount to a fascist takeover also happen to be the same people taking the most money from the oil and coal industries to fund their political campaigns. Say whuuuut?!
The workplace of the British ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty in Shaghai feels like home. They've got a kitchen, a bathroom, a formal dining room, and a kids' room (complete with a laddered loft bed). It could almost pass for a quaint little cottage somewhere in the English countryside. There's just one hitch: The "cottage" looks like it was sawed clear in half.
This is the first piece in our PATTERNS series by IDEO. Read more about the series here.
How do you build a business in an unproven market? How do you figure out what customers need when you’re delivering an experience they’ve never seen before? You begin where service and software companies have begun, by conducting fast, cheap experiments that help you understand your customers. You build on what you learn. In short, you prototype.
Designers are natural pattern seekers. They instinctually notice details and pick up on emerging themes. They make sense of what they find, considering patterns in broader contexts or as moments of meaning. PATTERNS, both a tool and a website created by IDEO, attempts to codify these things--to frame them in a way (and in a place) that offers inspiration and insight.
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