Eye on Design

JULY 5, 2022

I had many friends and colleagues producing significant work which at that time, didn’t have a natural publishing outlet in the US.” Princeton Architectural Press agreed to publish his new series, ultimately producing three books under the title, Inventory Books. . I Mean Me. I Mean You.

Publishing

UX Collective

JANUARY 21, 2022

On average, servers and cooling systems account for the greatest shares of direct electricity use in data centers, followed by storage drives and network devices. Is human-centered design sustainable? Data centers, aka “the cloud”, where we store most of our digital stuff are one of the most energy-intensive parts of IT. “On

Digital

Shillington

APRIL 19, 2021

The truth is, employers will not be looking at your degree in design to determine if you’re qualified for the job. . The industry thrives upon designers who can deliver a range of creative content in the arenas of advertising, book design, magazine design, information maps, typography and beyond.

Graphic Design

Inkbot Design

AUGUST 23, 2024

It’s been making waves in design communities everywhere as being just as powerful as Adobe — without the subscription. Affinity Designer is their answer to Illustrator, Photo is their version of Photoshop and Publisher (you guessed it) takes on InDesign. Your designer friend will be pulling quotes from this for years to come.

Graphic Design

UX Collective

MAY 24, 2023

One of my absolute favourite examples of oral storytelling is a short video clip from the Aboriginal People’s Television Network (APTN) that I happened to stumble across about 15 years ago. In 1999 MIT Press published a book of essays called “The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media”. Where might we go from here?

Art

Inkbot Design

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Used Book in Good Condition Ingledew, John (Author) English (Publication Language) 224 Pages – 10/19/2011 (Publication Date) – Laurence King Publishing (Publisher). McAlhone, Beryl (Author) English (Publication Language) 240 Pages – 08/13/1998 (Publication Date) – Phaidon Press (Publisher).

Graphic Design

Shillington

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The zine/self-help manual/comic book/manifesto/survival guide covers theory, history, work and interviews to create this absolutely essential read. Buy the book. The Package Design Book. Published in English, French and German, The Package Design Book is any packaging designer’s bible.

Graphic Design

UX Collective

JUNE 5, 2022

How designers can capture the voices that represent non-human living beings. Yes, there are important movements like sustainable design, eco design and circular design. Designers may need to augment this step with other methods. Sams Publishing. Design studies, 32(5). Tomitsch M., Borthwick M.,

Industrial Design

UX Collective

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Why it is time to move beyond just designing for humans. Image by Ilias via Adobe Stock This article is based on a recently published academic paper with the title Non-Human Personas: Including Nature in the Participatory Design of Smart Cities , which appeared in the Journal of Interaction Design & Architecture(s).

Animation

UX Collective

MAY 18, 2023

Instead of being human-centered, let’s be humanity-centered An increasing voice across the design sphere is calling for designers to shift their perspective to address a wider system. Continuously test and improve designs to ensure they address the concerns of the intended users. The Interaction Design Foundation.

Education

UX Collective

JANUARY 25, 2022

So when we use the term urban technology we’re not talking about another smart home device or some autonomous dog taxi, but rather the transition of urban life from a time where computation and network connectivity are an exception to one where they are the default. What does it mean to design urban technology?

Internet and Software Development

Smashing Magazine Graphics

AUGUST 9, 2021

Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons written by Vitaly Friedman. Drew McLellan: She’s the founder of The Inclusive Safety Project, an author of the book, Designed For Safety, which launches this month from A Book Apart. Design For Safety is published abookapart.com and is available now. Transcript.

Production

Just Creative

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

PENGUIN GROUP Godin, Seth (Author) English (Publication Language) 160 Pages - 07/01/2007 (Publication Date) - Penguin Books (Publisher). Despite being published in 1936, Dale beautifully articulates the science of winning friends and the power of persuasion. Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable. $12.83.

Marketing

Colossal

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Along with its enormous library of 100,000 titles, the club maintains a network of hundreds of antiquarian collectors, dealers, librarians, printers, binders, designers, and more dedicated to preserving and sharing the art of books and paper. ‘Jewish Antiquities and the Jewish War’ (Latin).

Art

Thinking Design

JUNE 28, 2021

Association of University Presses For more than 25 years, I worked for two Association of University Presses (AUP) member presses ( Columbia and Oxford) and had the opportunity to attend annual AUP meetings where I often spoke about book design, XML workflows, and other production issues. My network is large and varied.

Networking

UX Collective

JUNE 4, 2025

As a tool, the impact ripple canvas helps us to visualise and think about the impacts of our decisions in a multi-level and networked way. Acknowledgement: This article is adapted from chapter 5 of our book Designing Tomorrow , which introduces strategic design tactics for changing the planetary impact of design practice and organisations.

Media

UX Collective

MARCH 3, 2025

But the consumer has become the product and human-centred design a mechanism to monetise them effectively and efficiently. Designers contribute to a game where the goal is growthto make more stuff to sell to morepeople. According to a study published in Nature , human-made things now outweigh all life on Earth.

Production