Some photos of selected pages of a British Rail Design Book from 1986 by the Danish Design Council by James Cousins. Links to large versions of each image in the thumbnails at the bottom of this post. Includes Way finding for food. Or, check the whole British Rail Design Book set on Flickr. British Rail [...]
28 Mar
We’ve seen this on buildings, but on a human face? Good work Samsung for producing this. Now make it dynamic and allow the person to move. Please. Posted via email from Mr.Spooner’s Posterous
28 Feb
Those clever chaps over at Microsoft Research have too much time on their hands. This augmented reality mirror and LCD screen work together to give us that Star Wars holographic projection experience we’ve been wishing to experience since we first saw it in 1977. The integration of another device, in this case a Windows Phone, [...]
22 Nov
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14 Nov
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09 Nov
Like a pause in a piece of theatre, space in design can speak volumes. We often hear from graphic designers about how the use of space allows content to breathe and I wondered if the same is true for architects. How do they approach the concept of space in a medium where space is the [...]
09 Nov
Mobile audio is difficult. Mobile audio has historically been painfully implemented. In this short film, record producer Gareth Jones talks about how he hears the world, the loudness war and offers up some advice on how to produce sounds that work well on small speakers of the kind we have in modern mobile phones. Posted [...]
09 Nov
Metro, the design paradigm behind Windows Phone is in part, a celebration of typography. In this short film, godfather of modern type, Erik Spiekermann talks with Elliot Jay Stocks about how typography is used in the digital domain and what digital designers can learn from traditional print techniques. Posted via email from Mr.Spooner’s Posterous
09 Nov
Metro is hugely inspired by the way-finding graphics that guide us round airports and railway stations. For this short film, I approached Tony Howard, the Managing Director of the London based Transport Design Consultancy to discuss his approach to way-finding signage. Having previously worked as Head of Design at British Rail, more recent projects include [...]
07 Nov
Given all the talk last week that we (the human race) had surpassed 7 billion on the counter I was reminded by this film from National Geographic. Key for me in this is that like anything, you have to look at it in context. Typical is always relative. Posted via email from Mr.Spooner’s Posterous
08 May