Go look at Typographica for more typomania

“Typographica is a journal of typography featuring news, observations, and open commentary on fonts and typographic design“

 - Shaft

The ever so creative Non-Format

Nice illustrations from National Forest

Miika Saksi straight outta Helsinki  & last but not least Bibliothèque

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Inspired by the occasion, Gary Hustwit has produced and directed Helvetica ““ which must be the first feature-length documentary about a single typeface. Shot in the United States, England, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, France and Belgium, the film includes interviews with Erik Spiekermann, (the excellent) Wim Crouwel, Neville Brody, Stefan Sagmeister, David Carson, Norm, Experimental Jetset and many more… The film is currently in post-production, but should be released early this year.

http://www.helveticafilm.com/

to guide you:

to entertain you:

to inform you:

to warn you:

Cleo

Here’s a good resource for anybody interested in typography (more to come later):

Typeworkshop.com

• Shaft

iPhone, AppleTV, Airport Express – all hot off the MacWord conference.

iPhone. iPhone..

Apple, Inc stocks will soar.

iPhone, it’s the iPhone!

The definitive keynote experience.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8L39UwOS-Y

Designing a website anno 2007 can pose all kinds of interesting and tough challenges – but designing a website for 2012 raises some fundamentally different ones.

Such as: - Does websites even exist 5 years from now? - Will information be smart and automatically know who you are, where you are and what you need? - Will information technologies be truly ubiquitous and blend into our surroundings and perhaps even our skin?

In brief: how do we design something as familiar as a website for something as unfamiliar as the future?

This was the challenging assignment that 1508 was given a few months ago. The client and collaborator The Digital Taskforce (a unit at the Danish Ministry of Finance) asked us to come up with a e-Gov concept for 2012, which is based on the recently launched ‘citizen portal’ Borger.dk.

We are about halfway through a very interesting process, which so far has been focused on foresight research in order to set the most viable stage for 2012. During this process we have looked at relevant sociological and technological drivers that we believe will influence the future and to qualify our research findings we have facilitated a range of role-play and scenario workshops.

The output of these workshops will fuel the upcoming design phase, which – as we can reveal already now – will result in something very different from present day websites and e-Gov portals.

Sebastian

Gathering insights: What drivers are relevant when designing a future scenario?

Design Game: Which research findings are most important?

Role-play: What are people’s needs in 2012?

MacWorld time. The Mac fan community is buzzing with rumors, centered around Steve Jobs annual keynote speech.

A quick roundup on what I expect the keynote to contain:

iTV: This is already announced, very un-apple-like. My guess is a more thourough presentation of iTV and a release date. Also expect a release date if it is not immediately available.

Leopard: Steve will reveal more “top-secret” features with non-technical names to kill off Vista. If any release date will be announced it will probably be late march.

New Macs: The Mac Pro will be introduced with the new Core 2 Quad processors. The top end models are lagging behind since there is no native Intel version of Adobes Creative Suite yet. Rosetta isn’t all that good.

New Displays: Apple has discontinued the iSight, and are building it into all its computers, the Mac Pro and the Mac Mini are the only ones without it, so an integration in the Cinema Displays seem obvious. On top of that rumors have been floating around for more than a year that a Cinema-style 50″ display are in the works.. A perfect partner for iTV.

iWork and ILife ’07 These are almost too easy. Perhaps the will be bundled to compete directly with MS Office.

One more thing… The sentence that gets everybody exited. Last year Steve introduced the new Intel line of Macbook Pros, this year chance are that we’ll see one of the following:

iPhone? Except that it wont be called the iPhone, everybody is cheering for it, but I’m pretty sure its not gonna happen. Why? http://www.ryanablock.com/archive/2006/12/why-do-people-want-the-applephone-so-much/

I think he is right on all his negative accounts.

Touch-Screen video iPod? With widescreen players and especially the Zune on the market, Apple can’t afford just to sit tight. An updated video iPod isn’t that far off. Patents have been discovered with all kinds of touchscreen niftyness. Features should include: Bluetooth, Wifi, Touchscreen.

We will all know next week. :)

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From at time when graphic design was more about clear ideas and less about stock photography and gradients…

Cleo

USB, MP3, LCD, DVD, Voice recognition, Bluetooth…very interesting product from BMW. I can”™t wait to see how they have managed to integrate this product into their cars. So is this the year, when we all can say, “œYes I can afford a new BMW”!