Design and Style

Playful Architecture

Woven at 2008-06-13T22:21, coloured as .

Oh, wow …

[The family] are living in a typical habitat for the sort of New Yorkers they appear to be: an enormous ’20s-era co-op with Central Park views (once part of a triplex built for the philanthropist Marjorie Merriweather Post), gutted to its steel beams and refitted with luxurious flourishes like 16th-century Belgian mantelpieces and [...]

Pattern Repetition

Woven at 2008-06-12T8:57, coloured as .

Yesterday, some friends invited me to see Bodo Wartke. If you haven’t seen him, check him out: he’s really extremely funny, very witty and totally charming. Be warned, though: You should have a pretty firm grip on the German language, otherwise you will miss 80% of his jokes …

For me most interesting to see was [...]

Kerning

Woven at 2008-04-14T19:38, coloured as .

Safari [...] ignores the font’s metrics and kerns letter pairs like David Carson on a bad day.

Yeah, that’s totally an insider for graphic designers. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Kerning”, url: “http://tapestry.xeophin.net/threads/2008/04/14/kerning/” });

Star Wars Titles – A New Look

Woven at 2008-03-05T11:32, coloured as .

Could have happened if Saul Bass had his hands in it. [found via core77] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Star Wars Titles – A New Look”, url: “http://tapestry.xeophin.net/threads/2008/03/05/star-wars-titles-%e2%80%93-a-new-look/” });

So White and Shiny!

Woven at 2008-01-31T19:17, coloured as .

Nice. Found on MoCo Loco, which has even more pictures to salivate over. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “So White and Shiny!”, url: “http://tapestry.xeophin.net/threads/2008/01/31/so-white-and-shiny/” });

DRS.ch basiert auf Drupal

Woven at 2008-01-23T23:02, coloured as .

Wenn man sich die Schweizer Blogosphäre bezüglich des Redesigns der Website von SR DRS ansieht, so scheint das neue Design ziemlich unter den Radar zu fallen. Ah ja, neu – so what?

Mal abgesehen von den offensichtlichen Sachen – wie etwa der überbordenden Anzahl von «Strich-Punkten», die offenbar Links bezeichnen sollen (aber dafür symbolisch denkbar ungeeignet [...]

Finding Colours

Woven at 2007-09-04T10:57, coloured as .

Wacky idea last evening:

A program that uses natural language colour names as an input. An internet agent then goes looking for representations of that colour in the wild, takes the average of all of them and returns the definition to the user.

It kinda works already: check out lindgrün (pastel green) or petrol green. Of course [...]

More Wallpaper!

Woven at 2007-08-21T19:46, coloured as .

Just saw Lucky Number Slevin. And how cool can a film be – it’s just one big 70s-Style-a-Palooza! (Oh, and there’s quite a fair share of Josh Hartnett in there too. Hehe.)

We Love Frutiger

Woven at 2007-08-17T0:05, coloured as .

Now SR DRS has to give itself a new logo too, and OMG are they creative!Look!… – and now please someone tell me why I’m all of a sudden getting so sleepy and about to doze off …Honestly…. Those designers are not even able to emulate the world-renowned Swiss Graphic Design, let alone quote it.

Fette Linien braucht es, um sich abzugrenzen

Woven at 2007-07-31T22:24, coloured as .

Nun, was sagt eigentlich das Büro zur Nullnummer von punktzehah?

Scheint so, als müsste sich das neuste Fastfood-Newsmagazin auf dem Schweizer Markt vor allem mit fetten Linien von allen anderen abgrenzen. Zumindest verwenden sie die DIN, was als Schrift eine nicht allzu üble Wahl ist.

Ansonsten wird geklotzt, sei es mit Schriften oder mit grossen Bildern. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: [...]

70er-Tapete

Woven at 2007-07-10T11:35, coloured as .

Sunrise gibt sich ein neues Corporate Design, was ich schon mal nicht eine so schlechte Idee finde angesichts der Tatsache, dass Sunrise neben der mittelmässig-durchschnittlichen Swisscom und der unerreichbar stylischen Orange immer ein wenig negativ – weil billig – aufgefallen ist. Als neues Logo dient der Namenszug Sunrise, der neu grossgeschrieben wird. Die warmen Farben des Sonnenaufgangs — Gelb, Orange, Rot und Purpur — sollen positive Emotionen wecken…. Als Unternehmenschrift kommt Frutiger zum Einsatz, wodurch der Telco seine Schweizerische Verankerung unterstreichen will. Die Farben sind nicht schlecht, die Streifen so eine üble Idee ebenfalls nicht. Frutiger ist als Schriftwahl eine klassische und nicht gerade mutige Wahl, und spricht vor allem gegen die britische Agentur, die als «Schweizer Schriften» wohl nur die Frutiger und möglicherweise noch die Helvetica kennt. Doch wenn dieser quadratische Monolith effektiv das gesamte Logo darstellen soll, so bin ich etwas enttäuscht.

Panton Remixed

Woven at 2007-05-03T21:15, coloured as .

Reminds me heavily of Verner Pantons Chair – but the cleaner lines and the bamboo are a very nice touch. (Via I-don’t-know-anymore.) SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Panton Remixed”, url: “http://tapestry.xeophin.net/threads/2007/05/03/panton-remixed/” });

Bike Messengers as Style Icons

Woven at 2007-01-09T10:29, coloured as .

Today’s essential question: Is [habi][3] a style icon? ;-) “Nowadays, everybody wants to look like a messenger,” says the Brooklyn transplant, with her short red dreads poking out from under a camouflage cap.

Shaun Inman: Com/post

Woven at 2007-01-07T13:39, coloured as .

Shaun Inman: Com/post Originally uploaded by xeophin.

Shaun Inman’s designs are always breathtaking and beautifully executed.

I find the colour codes he has now introduced in his com/post especially intriguing: Depending on when an entry has been posted, it will receive a unique colour. This colour will [...]

Mark Boulton: Five Simple Steps to designing with colour part 3: Colour combinations

Woven at 2007-01-03T21:04, coloured as .

These are very difficult questions to answer because any designer or client will let their personal style and preference interfere with their decision-making. Colour combinations tend to evoke certain reactions either by cultural, or personal experience. Understanding these experiences will help you create colour combinations that tell a story.

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