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Why we say no to speculative design

gabriela — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:53:41 +0000

We found a great letter thanks to @martuishere on the subject. We abide religiously by number 3 and thus feel the need to post it here:

Unlike advertising agencies, we are not in the business of selling. We love our work and we love showing off the diversity of work we’ve done (please ask to see our portfolio!) but that’s because every project is crafted with thought and research, and with respect for our clients. We put all our resources into every client that engages us because we don’t need to save our best ideas to sell ourselves to potential new clients.

Supernicestudio.com

At the design exhibit

javier — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 12:06:33 +0000

Last friday all the interaction design students and I attended the “Design, Greatest Hits” exhibit at the Círculo de Bellas Artes. I found the curation to be weak. It was a fun evening though.

A redundant future of journalism

gabriela — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:44:34 +0000

Truth is: I would like to work for The New York Times

Steamed Japanese subway style

javier — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:02:28 +0000

I just came back from Tokyo where I had a great dinner with some local friends. I remember I found it surprising that they kind of competed about who had the best metro line close to his or her place. As a tourist I usually took the metro on non-rush hours so I didn’t see the point in that. Now I understand:

Tokyo metro can get veery crowded in rush hours and photographer Michael Wolf documented it in a funny/sad series of pictures of people getting steamed and compressed at the same time.

Wear that dress for me, baby

javier — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 22:33:15 +0000

This young lady is very much into Vignelli’s map as well:

More info about the dress here.

Draper's phone

javier — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:12:17 +0000

You heard the man ranting about focus groups, right?. Now, what phone were you expecting he’d have?

Drugs: charts and infographics

javier — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:34:57 +0000

I’ve been collecting charts and infographics about drugs for a while. The topic is multidimensional and that makes it interesting for visual representations. Some of its facets:

type of effect (euphoria, relax, allucinations…)
level of addiction provoked (very, little, extreme…)
legal consequences of consuming/dealing (jail, misdeameanor…)
secondary effects (nausea, sleep, appetite)
price
social acceptance
context of consumption (marginal, social, individual…)

And here are the charts, numbered for your convenience when commenting:

Am I missing any classic that should be on this collection?

My favorite is #1 for obvious reasons. Which one is yours, you little druggies?

Fonts: true meaning

javier — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:00:37 +0000

(via I Love Charts)

Remembering old sing-alongs

gabriela — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:36:16 +0000

Today is Canada day. We salute all canadians around the world especially our own Mark McKay who’s in Canda right now and will be there for a month. We’ll sure miss him.

So, to commemorate such a grandiose day here is our favorite canadian hymn ‘Canadian, please’ by Gunnarolla. To celebrate, people have been remixing the original video.

Caffeine

javier — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:06:08 +0000

This is the kind of stuff Mark tells you to justify his totally unacceptable levels of coffee consumption:

(original at Homeowners Insurance)