First off, Design Milk has a nice review of the best of architecture in 2011.

Then, enjoy this write-up of the Plumen light bulb by designer Samuel Wilkinson and product design firm Hulger. The Plumen was named the Design Museum's Brit Insurance Design of the Year.

Also from the Design Museum, the winner of the Brit Insurance Graphics Award for 2011 is BlogLESS favorite Homemade is Best, by Swedish Interactive graphics agency Forsman & Bodenfors.

And, finally, the interesting A Year in Web Design: How the Experts Saw 2011 from Web Design Tuts is worth a look.

Happy new year to each of you very fine BlogLESS readers.

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Simplicity is never a goal; it is a by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

Paul Rand, From Lascaux to Brooklyn

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Black Swan Posters by La Boca

Props to Tom Carden for the head's-up.

An excerpt from the chart.

TLDR: Should you work for free? No, unless it is for your Mom.

There is no explanation of the analysis, so it's difficult to understand the distribution. But I like the presentation, nonetheless.

The character representing a novel is composed of three different levels. The first level indicates the genre, the second level reflects the atmosphere of the novel and the third level provides information about the narrative structure. In this manner, different novels are made comparable on the book cover, thus assisting the readers in their choice without having knowledge of the contents and character of the book.

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