charlie francis
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Code is poetry
With a corporate bank there are many conflicting sources of design and creative direction. So having gathered the users needs, understood the sites objectives, discussed the functional specifications and content requirements the project has to navigate through the corporations design culture. This culture is always changing, like a river.
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Tom Sachs – Bricolage
I don’t know this artist Tom Sachs at all, but I came across his model of a NASA Hasselblad camera. The low-fi real but not real aesthetic of it appeals. Its not a copy, but, too crude to be a facsimile. I am never quite sure what a Jean Baudrillard’s simulacra means, but it our mixed up world…
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Uniform Wears
Went to Lords today and watched the English cricket fans, watching England bat against India, and was struck by how uniform what they wear is. Clothing featuring pastel colours, baby blue or salmon, and a lot of panama hats. A lifestyle culture, an urban tribe?
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Megan Boyd
After a very hectic day at work my nerves were soothed by ‘Kiss the Water’ a very peaceful documentary on Megan Boyd, who spent her whole life tying classic and traditional Atlantic salmon flies. She lived most of her adult life in a small cottage in Kintradwell, near Brora. Considered a friendly eccentric by her…
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Matisse at the Tate Modern
Went to the Tate today without the kids, as they refused to see an exhibition about paper cut-outs. Not unreasonable as they spend all day making paper cut-outs.
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Pastel Dystopia
Not good bad Place is how my google search defined dystopia. Having just finished reading Dave Egers ‘The Circle’ and watched ‘her’ with Joaquín Phoenix, it seems that we are going to be over run with an appealing, useful, ubiquitous, user experience, which masks a more threatening reality. Seems rather sad.
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Material Designs
Google has announced a new design language for Android’s UI design. Matias Duarte, the head of Android design at Google, talks through Android L design features, creating a new design language called Material. I have pulled out my highlights from his talk. The stand out was the trouble they had taken to create delightful animations to…
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Barclays Omake
This is a concept idea for making banking more engaging. I am using the idea of a points rewards system to reflect the users engagement with Barclays products and services. It may be possible to then associate these omake with a financial reward. Omake is japanese for extra, bonus, discount and I am using it…
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A soul-sucking effort in futility
Although this article in the Pastry Box project by Greg Hoy, Differentiate or Die is about how tough 2014 has been for some design agencies, and how this tends to be cyclical, the bit that struck a note was why corporations reach for the silver bullet of external design agencies…and wondering if it works?
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