Thinking Design

Reflections and Resources on Beautiful Design

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Nice visual - from the site of Exact Software.

The background is an F1 Racer - Max Verstappen.

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Nice handwritten type.

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Say Cheese !

What should be the shape of a building in Switzerland?

This is the EPFL Rolex learning centre, right beside Lake Geneva, overlooking the Alps. The building is the shape of Swiss Cheese, and is designed by a Japanese firm Sanaa. Check out their inspiring work.

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Writing on the walls

My 2 year old niece likes to write on walls. I did too. Well until my mom stopped me. But I wish I could. 

What if you could?

Write down all the ideas on the walls? And your friends could see those ideas and add to them, and add their own ideas as well?

That's what IdeaPaint makes possible. They paint the wall with dry erase paint. You can then wipe it off. It essentially turns office walls to whiteboards.

And all of us creators and communicators love whiteboards :-)

More details are here.

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Make a Product in 5 Days

This is done at Google Ventures for their portfolio companies. It's called a Design Sprint.

Check it out.

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The Most Expensive Camera in the World

Price: $1.8 Million

A Leica Camera designed by Jony Ive (Apple's Chief Design Guy, more formally, Senior Vice President of Design) and Marc Newson.

Details here.

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Good design is as little design as possible

Dieter Rams

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The History of Typography - Animated Short

One of the most beautiful videos on typography !

A paper-letter animation about the history of fonts and typography. 291 Paper Letters. 2,454 Photographs. 140 hours of work. Created by Ben Barrett-Forrest ©...