Bundle-up with Four Design Links, a curated collection of stories we've been reading this week.
Photo by Wally Gobetz
1. The Lazy Designer’s Guide to Success
Pentagram's Michael Bierut offers seven ways designers can work smarter, not harder.
#4. Do as you’re told.
Simply following the client's instructions will yield wonders. For Bierut – who likes limitations – creating the gargantuan sign for Renzo Piano’s New York Times building was fairly straightforward. The Times Square Alliance mandates that all buildings in the neighbourhood feature bright, large signage, to "keep Times Square looking like Times Square,” says Bierut. (He adds that, for Piano, hearing the words large-sign-stuck-on-your-building must have been, "like, the biggest 6-word, ‘F--- you, architect’.”) And so, the almost 6 meter-tall logo was chopped into 893 pieces and applied to Piano’s ceramic rod façade.
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Nick — Dec 10, 2009
An eclectic Four Design Links this week. Philosophy, stress management, and a bit of web design tech to round things off.
1. A visual interpretation of Delueze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus
Check out this collection by Marc Ngui.
2. Time in nature makes us more caring
If we want people to do more good in the world, perhaps greater exposure to nature is the ticket. According to this study, you don't even have to be outside to experience the effect. Some outdoor wallpaper and plants can help make one more prone to care about others.
3. Delegate
This is timely. Feeling overwhelmed? Perhaps you need to learn how to delegate.
4. Google Analytics goes asynchronous
Google's new update promises "faster tracking code load times" and "enhanced data collection & accuracy". Time to revise those CMS templates?
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Nick — Dec 3, 2009
GOOD Magazine's transparency archive at Flickr is a feast for the eyes and candy for the brain. Check it out.
Once weekly, GOOD Magazine posts an infographic, or a "transparency", visualizing everything from the amount of our national acreage controlled by major retail chains (below) to the length of time people spend on popular email clients. They have now created a flickr archive of them all.
Student Debt: GOOD and Futurefarmers look at the ballooning student debt in the United States.
Retail Store Space: The biggest retailer in the world covers an area larger than Manhattan. GOOD and Futurefarmers look at "the amazing amount of space occupied by a few ubiquitous chains."
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Paul — Jun 12, 2009
