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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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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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Comics Unmasked at the British library
Today I went to visit Comics Unmasked, ‘UK’s largest ever exhibition of mainstream and underground comics’ to quote the library’s website . As someone who has read a lot of comics it was fun to see some of them in a museum case.
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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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Put together
Bridget Riley Hesitate 1964, David Hockney A Bigger Splash 1967, Antony Caro Early One Morning 1962. All together in the corner of Room 1960, a perfect composition, sometimes the Tate puts things together in a way that is lovely, and not around some abstract theme like the Tate modern. Left the gallery very happy. Made up for…
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Denkarbeit
I wish I had run more workshops at Barclays, as its a great way to get inside the teams head, and where their thinking is. These are my notes from a workshop I ran in January 2014. It is also just to enjoy ‘thinking work’. Denkarbeit. The team spend so much time creating material I…
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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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