Before concepts or ideas become trends patterns begin to emerge.
PATTERNS are how we capture and share some of the common insights we see bubbling up across projects, as well as out and about in the world. They are a foundation for intuition. A way to elevate insights to the level of cultural impact. And a way to tap into IDEO’s collective intelligence to do better work for our clients—even faster.
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Designed by Ben LaFond and Dan Black, the new Arcade Fire tour posters are fantastic. From the color pallet to the design details they managed to visually capture the sound of the new album—The Suburbs.
Via Kistune Noir
Pictos by Drew Wilson is one of my favorite sets of icons that have made their way into virtually every design project over the last several months—including the Inspire Well theme. Converting the icon set into a font file seems like a genius move that lets you embed the icons as @font-face type. This allows the designer to have far more control over size, color and appearance of the icons with CSS text styling. The only downside I can think of would be random letters used for the icon font throughout your HTML.
Reblogged from Cameron Moll
It’s not rocket science. It’s social science—the science of understanding people’s needs and their unique relationship with art, literature, history, music, work, philosophy, community, technology, and psychology. The act of design is structuring and creating that balance.
I’m absolutely in love with the simplicity, incredible typography, and tons of small details that add so much to the experience. If you want to see the amount of “love” that went into the site check out the always following search and destroy eyes, meet the team, fly-to dealer locator, board finder, product lookbooks, and board product pages.
Denmark-based illustrator and designer Casper Iversen designed a mock identity and campaign for the Australian surf and skate brand McKill as a project while finishing his BA in Graphic Communication at Skolen for Visuel Kommunication. Fresh out of school Casper definitely has a solid future in design.
Via Behance
Great design, motion and flow by Bonsajo, visual performance unit, for the 2010 Wired Business Conference - Disruptive by Design
Absolutely brilliant work by TROIKA!
The V&A commissioned TROIKA to create a permanent sign for the V&A entrance leading from the South Kensington tube station to the Museum.
Troika responded to this brief with ‘Palindrome’, a kinetic sign that recognizes the rich collection of the V&A as one of the worlds most fascinating treasure homes collecting over 3,000 years worth of cultural artefacts from the world’s most established cultures.
Read Creative Review’s write-up on the deconstruction of the V&A.
Designer and web veteran Derek Powazek offers his thoughts on leading the design of the MagClould iPad app and how it differs from designing for the web.
BBQWar began as an idea by Ismael Burciaga while he was barbecuing one day and posting images via Twitter. A couple of Ismael’s friends also began tweeting tantalizing pictures of what they were grilling. Soon it became obvious that a grilling “war” had been unofficially declared, so Ismael began placing #BBQWar on his tweets to his friends with an image attached. Several weeks later, the site ‘BBQWar’ was birthed.
“The Bike Song” by Mark Ronson feat. Spank Rock & Kyle Falconer
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