Archive for category: Design

Design other than graphic design

New York’s Taxi of Tomorrow has the wrong door handle    (2011.07.27)

New York’s upcoming Nissan NV200 taxis have a door handle most people can’t use – because they’re right-handed and their hands aren’t doing a thumbs-up sign

Where’s the power button?    (2011.07.19)

Kenneth Grange can’t find his Mac Mini’s power button. And whose fault might that be?

8I    (2011.07.10)

Nobody does simple two-tone aircraft exteriors like Boeing

Don’t let Swedes typeset your book cover    (2011.07.01)

Because »they’ll use the wrong quotation marks«

Avalonism    (2011.06.24)

The formative multisensory design experience, here involving Bryan Ferry

‘Surfaces without apology’    (2011.06.23)

“Surfaces without apology” should be the new slogan, rallying cry, and ideal of industrial designers

Memphisean    (2011.06.16)

The mottled, aqua-triangled Memphis-manqué ’80s æsthetic

‘Chair champion’    (2011.06.14)

I don’t think hiring a consultant to fit everyone properly in a chair in which they sit for eight hours a day is a waste of mone

Splitsville    (2011.06.10)

iPad split keyboard (2011) vs. Apple Adjustable Keyboard (1993)