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Time Travel on the Metro North
Tara Kelton offers a look into the future.
Using a video camera, a long firewire cable and a laptop, I attempted time travel on the Metro North train. A video camera was placed at the front of a train car, facing out the window. Live video feed was sent from the camera to the laptop, which sat in front of a second window at the back of the train car. When viewing the laptop one was able to see approximately 1/10th of a second into the “future”.
How futuristic.
No comments. Posted by tanner in conceptual, motion on 30 December 2008.
Unknown facts about Schaedler Precision Rules
I was doing some important research this evening when I discovered two fascinating facts about every graphic designer’s favorite ruler company, Schaedler Precision Rules. (If you’re one of those people who like to read between the lines, this can be translated to “I was putting off work tonight and googling everything within arm’s reach – in this case Taro Yamashita, the designer of the common Schaedler ruler.”)
Anyway:
1 Schaedler offers 18″ rulers
[W]e’ve die cut interior slots to provide edge access to all four popular scales: Standard Inches, DTP Picas, Decimal Inches, and Metric Millimeters/Centimeters. The display includes Bullets, Bars and Ballot Boxes in a variety of sizes. And it can be very carefully cut into two separate 18″ rules if you don’t mind risking the sight of blood. Coated with a subtle greenish tinge. The color of envy.
2 They offer a killer replacement guarantee
If the markings on any Schaedler Rule have become worn or scratched, if a rule is accidentally stained or damaged, if you simply wish to exchange an old “B” rule, say, for a new “C” rule — or for that matter a 12″ rule for an 18″ rule, here’s what to do: Fold the old rule so it fits in an ordinary business envelope and mail it directly to Schaedler Quinzel, Inc., 1259 Route 46 E, #4J, Parsippany NJ 07054. [...] Include cash or check (sorry, no credit cards) in the amount of 50% of the current price of your desired replacement. The new rule will be shipped promptly at our expense.
Color me nerdly.
No comments. Posted by tanner in information design, random on 29 December 2008.
Questions for identity designers: Chermayeff and Geismar
The folks at Chermayeff and Geismar provided relatively short winded responses, explaining “sorry they’re brief but as you can imagine we get many e-mails like yours.” I guess I’ll let them slide this time; considering I asked pretty typical questions and they are largely considered to be design gods.
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No comments. Posted by tanner in branding, clock project on 29 December 2008.
One of the themes with our questionnaire, and generally in our lives as designers for all of us working on the magazine, is the detestable practice of plagiarism in the design community. We got a lot of varied responses to one of our questions about the industry view of imitation vs inspiration, and how it’s perceived/handled outside of the academic environment.
To me the majority were like “yeah, it sucks, but you can’t really do anything about it”
I guess that’s how I saw it playing out in school as well. Some of the most ardent style-chasers and idea-copiers had their transgressions ignored, in the face of the overwhelming evidence and transparency of what was being done.
As some who always tries to do something differently I found it frustrating when people who were just mimicking better designers were able to get the same attention, critiquing seriousness, and often better grades. I guess my frustration lies in the fact that the thoughts I was always running into were the same:
“Is no one going to say anything about this!” “Am I the only one that can see that’s a complete Rand knockoff!?” “I mentioned my idea and 10 minutes later you just HAPPEN to change what you’re doing!?” “The teacher has to notice, they’ll say something, point them towards something else right? NO!? What is going on!” “She clearly stole that idea!” “Her boyfriend made that., why is that okay!?” “If this is how its going to be, maybe I should just drop out and try to be a zoologist like I wanted to be in 4th grade.”
Oh, sorry, maybe I’m still a little bitter about things.
Anyway, what I was getting at, was the idea that certain things like plagiarism, unoriginality, or the idea of just telling someone when a project isn’t working, or someones already done it, always seemed to be the ignored elephant in the room. At least in my interactions with Professors, they always just assumed the person had done it unintentionally, mistaking imitation for accidentally overly-similar inspiration.
3 comments. Posted by md in issue 1, rant on 23 December 2008.
Figured I’d just do a post of some random stuff I came across today on ffffound.
No comments. Posted by md in ffffinds, random on 23 December 2008.
Some interesting typographic elements from Luke Lucas over at Behance.
No comments. Posted by md in typography on 22 December 2008.
So Tomato did the location change titles (see what I did there, with the title of the post? Salsa. Cause its Tomato. Clever right? Hysterical.)
I liked the transitions, before I knew they were Tomato and its funny, I was reading this post by Ben Terrett at Noisy Decent Graphics and his thought process was similar to mine, though I tend to ignore when other people don’t like things. Hence my current haircut.
It’s going to be like this all weeks folks, bad jokes and lame comments. Tanner and Adria are on vacation, so just get used to it!
No comments. Posted by md in motion, movie, typography on 22 December 2008.
Really enjoy the work of zeroperzero
Their Osaka & Tokyo subway maps won a few awards, and I can see why, they’re really nice to look at, though I’m a sucker for a nice subway map. Maybe I’ll make some nice LightRail maps for Phoenix.
via Visual Culture
No comments. Posted by md in portfolio on 22 December 2008.
Nine American soldiers photographed at Fort Drum, NY
between tours of duty in Iraq and AfghanistanThe Soldier Billboard Project is a collaboration between
between artist Suzanne Opton and curator Susan Reynolds.
Really moving in a way, seeing these images. Hard to say much more than that, just look at the eyes.
via netdiver
No comments. Posted by md in advertisement, photography on 22 December 2008.
Questions for identity designers: Michael Bierut
To preface this series of interviews, here are the questions I originally asked:
How do you approach a new branding project?
What does your research include?
Would you describe your process?
What do you feel is the most successful brand you’ve designed? Why?
How do you test an idea?
The first response I received was from Michael Bierut, partner at Pentagram.
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1 comment. Posted by tanner in branding, clock project on 22 December 2008.
