Beautiful brain indeed!

I suppose that I am a little late to the party with this one. Daniel Tammet is capable of amazing mental feats, with what appears to be little effort. Daniel has a super brain that can perform complex mathematics in a single bound, memorize enormous amounts of data with laser like vision, and learn a new language faster than a speeding bullet. Not that I want autism, but it would be nice to have a super brain!

Designer Profile: Mossimo Vignelli

Renaissance Designer, Mossimo Vignelli was trained as an Architect but did not restrict himself exclusively to that discipline. Vignelli is a conceptual designer that strives for function in addition to timeless form. His conceptual approach has allowed him & his company to design brand identity systems for American Airlines, Benetton (1995), and Ducatti (1998) to furniture for Knoll, Heller plasticwear, and interiors for churches and department stores. The couple has also written a few books. Vignelli and his Wife were recently featured among nine designers who changed perceptions by New York magazine. The couple have received many awards for their work and the fact that they have continued to produce work well after they no longer needed to is inspirational to me. While his design philisophy might be too narrow for some people, there is much that can be learned from him.

The video is of the couple discussing some of their furniture and design philosophy.

Inspiration

Hillman Curtis, a well known designer in his own right, has been busy capturing design legends on film.

Check it out on aiga.

Interested in learning more about Mr. Curtis? Check out Hillmans' book "MTIV: Process, Inspiration and Practice for the New Media Designer" on amazon. I own it and often refer to it for inspiration.

Dear After Effects, i love you.

Today is Saturday, but it should be renamed to after effects affection day. Cruising youtube for "design" yielded many goodies and here are some of them.

Yet one more thing to learn.

I really like this one, good music too.




Pulp fiction as a typographic motion study. Warning, it's pulp fiction so be prepared for "$#$%@" and "*(@#&(#".

video find

Technology, humbug! Blogger just made me re-type everything!

I recently saw this presentation by Paul Bennett, Creative Director at Ideo. The firm behind the revolutionary Treo and Palm Pilot. His concept was simple - "design is in the details", and I agree with him. How many times have I tried to change everything in the quest to innovate, when I only had to change just one detail that would transform the experience into something more compelling. It reminds me of something I've heard about writing good fiction. Imagine a scenario with normal people doing normal things, then make one element fantastic and let everything else react to that difference. Design IS in the details.