This handy guide from startupsthisishowdesignworks.com will help you understand design, provide useful tips for startup companies and provide resources to help you find awesome design talent.
It answers questions like “What is good design?”
Good design can’t be achieved with glossy buttons or masterful wireframes alone. It’s a merger of all these principles into something that is meaningful and deliberate.
I stumbled across this manifesto the other day on exp.lore.com – it discusses the way that design has changed with new technology. Inspiration is all around us and we now have limitless resources and tools to do any kind of work we’d love to do. Check it out here or on rencontres-arles.com.
If you’re looking for more Manifestos for a creative lifestyle, check out these 5 Manifestos for the Creative Live by Kirstin Butler on brainpickings.org
Well it’s a new day… And a new year! Perhaps the last year according to the Mayans(?!!)…
I love the year end lists of the “best of” this and that collections that pop up at the end of the year. Here are a few favorites that I’ve come across over the last few weeks that I thought I’d share with you.
From visual.ly blog here’s an article on some of the best visualizations of 2011. I really have fallen in love with infographics, but I really like this list because it also includes some interactive information (http://cnn-ecosphere.com/ was my favorite for sure – zoom in and check out the tweets around the world!) as well as some great videos that are packed with interesting and useful information. I hope you enjoy these as much as I did! Another wonderful couple resources for infographics are Good magazine’s infographic page here: http://www.good.is/infographics and http://visualjournalism.com/
http://blog.visual.ly/20-great-visualizations-of-2011/
Coming from venturebeat.com – here is a decent short list of the best web and mobile typefaces of 2011:
http://venturebeat.com/2011/12/22/best-2011-fonts/
The best wordpress cheat sheets that I’ve found this year are from wptuts+ (love all the tuts+ sites!)
http://wp.tutsplus.com/category/articles/cheat-sheets/
The best movie list of the year – errrrrrr… I have yet to find one that I totally agree with.
Rolling stone has a decent list here: http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/lists/10-best-movies-of-2011-20111207 but there are for sure a few in their list that I would swap out. They don’t really have foreign films or any documentaries listed. I could probably make a list of 10 top documentaries because I watch so many… One of my favorites from this year was Waiting for Superman. If you are a student, or work in any part of education – or if you have children or are the least bit interested in education as a whole it’s a must-see. The hangover 2 and Sherlock Holmes were quite good, and Drive – although it was nicely done was a bit too slow for me – artistic and beautiful yes but also slow. The Tree of life was again beautiful but I like it more as a visual background than a story.
Best music!? Ahhhh that’s always a list too long and complex…
This is a great little site if you want to hear some funny client quotes and stories.
One of my favorites:
“The screenshot you sent is all wrong. It doesn’t let me play the video. It seems to simply function like a photograph of someone’s screen.”
I’ve been approved for a research project to create an App with Red River College and the Canadian Museum of Human Rights. A student approached me a week or two ago and asked a few questions for an article in the Projector. I’ll be working on the design of the App and some front end work, while Tom Lepp, another instructor who teaches in the DMD department at RRC will be working on developing the Augmented Reality portion of the App. I could not do this without him! We’ll be working with Scott Gillam and Corey Timpson at the CMHR to create the concept, design and user experience.
Check out the online article here.
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