The Vignellis

Posted on October 25, 2007November 1, 2007 Posted in Design2 Comments

Vignellis
Photo: Dean Kaufman

Great article by New York Magazine on Massimo and Lella Vignelli and their contributions to the world of design. I own an original copy of the 1972 NYC subway map designed by Massimo and I must say it is one of the most well designed pieces I’ve ever seen. It’s functional and beautiful all at once unlike the current map.

In designing the logo for Bloomingdale’s, for instance, they knew they had to deal with a lot of circular shapes: o’s, a B, a d. So they stripped the “feet??? off the letters, and made curves the logo’s main asset.

Design Supremo

Posted on October 23, 2007 Posted in Design, Merch

Karpa
by David Carvalho

Design Supremo is a brand new website, a creative hub, a design playground where people who appreciate that special touch can come and buy original, often limited edition objects of desire that are totally exclusive to the website. Design Supremo provides a commercial outlet for designers, helping with the manufacture and marketing of their products, and making them exclusively available on the website.

Build

Posted on October 19, 2007 Posted in Design, Typography

Build

Build has just launched a new site and URL with some brand spanking new work.

Apple sued over iPod storage capacity

Posted on October 18, 2007 Posted in Apple3 Comments

This is just getting to be ridiculous. Montreal law student David Bitton is suing Apple because the company’s 8GB iPod nano offers 7.45GB of actual storage capacity, rather than the full 8GB as advertised. Everyone knows that you never get the absolute full capacity of a hard drive, whether it’s a laptop or an iPod. Someone needs to end these ridiculous suits against Apple. Wake up people!!!

Bitton, you suck!

Air Canada

Posted on October 17, 2007October 18, 2007 Posted in Design2 Comments

Air Canada

Beautiful poster by Dan Reisinger done in the late 70’s which was featured in an old issue of Graphis magazine. I wish designers would still do work like this.

Via ISO50

Third Party Applications on the iPhone

Posted on October 17, 2007October 17, 2007 Posted in Apple

iPhone

In his most recent public letter on Apple.com, Steve Jobs has officially announced third-party iPhone and iPod touch applications as well as a software development kit (SDK) that will be ready by February. This is great news! Third party apps on the iPhone will catapult it to a level that other phones can only dream of. This is when the real fun begins.

Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February.