DesignStudio for League of Legends
Tag Archives: design
Julie Zhuo on the Lessons of Good Design
“The greatest frustration is feeling like you’re getting too much criticism from too many people (which, according to #2, means your design is not yet good). This is either because a) you’re working under too many constraints; b) you’re not exploring solutions broadly enough; or c) the problem is beyond your current skill level.”
Among trademarks filed in 2017 to date, the average year that follows
the “est.” is 1988, just 29 years ago. In comparison, the average year
after the “est.” in trademarks filed in 2000 was 1939, or 61 years
earlier.
Bang & Olafson redesigned its “Play” line packaging. The “before” feels much more inline with the overall brand experience, but perhaps it wasn’t doing the job it was meant for? Or, maybe someone got infatuated with focus group results? Fascinating dilemma.
TypeHike.com – over 60 different designer posters for sale benefiting the National Parks Service.
(I grew up near Mesa Verde.)
Ten Rules
- No set margins or grids
- No perfectionism
- No lines or underlining
- No colours
- No in-jokes
- No minimalism
- No brushwork or calligraphy
- No illustration
- No system fonts
- No text placed upright, crosswise, or following a curved path
“antidisciplinary” is the new “multidisciplinary”
the idea that we create things that are unfinished, that can only accrue value over time, is foreign to us. It’s so easy for us to visualize the future, and so hard to admit that we really can’t. That’s what we face every time we unveil a new logo.
How Google Ventures Uses Design Sprints to Ship Great Products
Mon: map out your goal
Tues: focus on overcoming challenges
Weds: make decisions
Thurs: Prototype
Fri: Test with users and decide
One of my first jobs out of college was at Barnes & Noble. Even then, shelving book after book in all areas of the store, I loved the multi-book series cover designs.
Swiss style color picker
Reading Design is an online archive of critical writing about design. The idea is to embrace the whole of design, from architecture and urbanism to product, fashion, graphics and beyond. The texts featured here date from the nineteenth century right up to the present moment but each one contains something which remains relevant, surprising or interesting to us today.
repetition can trump bezier proficiency most times
Brand New: New Logo and Identity for Best Western by MiresBall
Absolutely horrible identity redesign for Best Western. Look back at some of the old logos – plenty to mine there.
Wow. This looks amazing for type. Simplicity itself.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Kleenex boutique tissue box – When the tissue is running out, it changes colors from white to yellow. /via Nitin Julka