A fascinating and fun day at the Digital Magazine Awards (#dma13) and the “Un-conference” before hand. Spoke to all sorts of interesting people about what is going on in the industry.
Here are some of the things we saw or that came up:
Archives for the month of: November, 2013
Last time I was in L.A. and had some time off I went to some fantastic shows that were part of the Pacific Standard Time season. My favourite was Eames Design: The Guest-Host Relationship. The quote pictured was on the outside of the A+D Museum on Wilshire Boulevard.
Read another wonderful architectural definition today. It was about how architects differentiate between items and space: “A figure is an element or shape placed on a page, canvas, or other background. Ground is the space on the page”
Running up Parliament Hill early this morning when a pack of runners doing a 10k ran the other way on the turf in “silence”. I say silence – their sound was actually incredible. About a hundred people not saying anything, feet hitting mud and grass, breathing in a sort of unison. It was only silence in a social sense. The actual experience of it was a sort of soft rythmic murmur.
This is the most succinct description of good design I have heard in a while. Rather typically it came from a book on architecture. If you can make something as simple as a logo achieve this or something as complex as a page use it as a principle that helps guide you through it you have really achieved something.
Just completed a fascinating two days of conferences in Brighton.
It started full of caffeine listening Susan Weinschenk’s talk on vision, hearing and the brain and did not stop being riveting.
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