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.

Designer Profile: Matthew Carter

Matthew Carter is a name you should know. His work is all around us, ever read a webpage or magazine? That is where you'll find it. He has created many well known screen legible fonts for Windows and the Macintosh, the list is a long one and includes Verdana, Georgia, and Tahoma.



He even co-founded two font foundry companies, bitstream and carter&cone inc. (nothing there tho, but you can see a selection of fonts they have released here)

Nice summary of his work here.

Eye magazine articles
Feature Article By Erik Speakermann

Microsoft page back from 1997, put up after he finished the fonts for Microsoft.

Eames Classic

Powers of Ten by Charles And Ray Eames, is a classic and powerfull piece of information design (the one above is slightly different, here is the original). My professor showed this in our History of Design class and everyone was blown away by how simple and compelling it was. I know I saw things in a slightly different perspective afterwards.

Official website for p10 with schwag!

Charles & Ray Eames foundation website.

I also got curious about other films the two might have made and nipped off over to imdb. Holy guacamole, lots and lots. I will have to look for them.

Lastly, for those of you who looove the all things Eames, you can see their exhibit "Mathematica" at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle Washington. This exhibit exists in other areas as well, but I live here.

peaceful typography

Video is called "Typography a wish" and the word is french for vows. Not sure if it's the music or the rhythm of movement, but I find this to be very peaceful.

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 "*(@#&(#".