Thoughts
My thoughts on art, design, and other things of interest that inspires me
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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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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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Design Men
From playboy 1961 (53 years ago) George Nelson, Edward Wormley, Eero Saarinen, Harry Bertoia, Charles Eames and Jens Risom, sitting on chairs that still look more like the future than anything I see in the shops today. Also is this what designers are supposed to look like? I wonder where Ray Eames is?
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What’s New Pussycat
I first saw Françoise Hardy at the end of the a very silly film called Whats New Pussycat, and then she sang on Blurs single ‘To the End’. In the film Michael James (Peter O’Toole) has just got married to Carole (Romy Schneider) and calls the mayor’s assistant (Françoise Hardy) ‘pussycat’. Carole takes this to be…
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To all tomorrow’s parties
The article had a picture of a laptop on the floor in a room off old street near seren, where I worked. Also talking to design the team about computers and where they are going. What follows doesn’t make sense, but they are just notes. Collage of other peoples thoughts from the past. A hand-me-down dress from who…
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Go Faster
The aesthetics of car racing has always been mixed up with the thrill of speed. I regularly browse with great pleasure Customised: Art Inspired by Hot Rods, Low Riders and American Car Culture. The front cover featuring Roadrunner by Craig McDean. If you ever by a book on the strength of a cover alone this is…
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Readymades and the skilled artisan
Reading yesterdays guardian I came across an article by Jon Henley, called ‘Last of their Kind’. Which was a view of ‘heritage crafts’. These are skilled craftsmen who make useful tools and object, but very much reminded me of some of the things I like to think of as readymades.
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Of phlogiston and web conventions
I was watching Chemistry: A Volatile History and the presenter Jim Al-Khalili spoke about one of the greatest red herrings in science which was phlogiston. A theory that fire element called “phlogiston” was given off when substances burned. So when wood burned it became ash and an invisible element had been given off phlogiston, as…
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