Paper

Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, accrues solar energy as fuel, creates complex sugars and food, creates microclimates, changes colours with the seasons and self-replicates. Why don't we knock that down and write on it?*
– William McDonough, in this TED talk–

* (It's a tree)

Change, 08!

I got sick and tired of the old look. The new one doesn't look good yet, but at least it's new. I've symbolically hung my tired old look out to dry. The idea is that I will now be forced, by the sheer not-together-ness of my blog, to create a new stylesheet. Soon, I promise. And there will be a new header, also.

I'm having one of those "There is so Much AWESOME STUFF Being Made in the World" – moments

The reason: 3 visual candy sites I have found in rapid succesion today.

1. ffffound!
Which, apart from having a great name, basically consists of a bunch of people trawling the internet and finding awesome graphics and collecting them on their site. Sort of like the Shädy Äcres image editorial policy, but done by more people and without the text. And they probably smell better, too.

The result is fantastic. A collection of photographs, typography, graphic design, logos, illustrations, etc., etc. And it never stops being interesting. It doesn't stop dropping my jaw. If you only follow one of these links, follow this one.

2. 'Skine Art is a site which contains pages from visual artist's moleskine sketchbooks. Lots of really awesome use of the book's layout.

3. The photographic philosophy of Ryan McGinley (which I ffffound via Ffffound (oh, and probably NSFW depending on where you W)) seems to mostly consist of telling people to get naked and do stuff (though they seem mostly to not be doing what most people would imagine you were talking about if you asked them to get naked and do stuff). The results are captivating and annoyingly youthful and energetic.

The freakiest picture in there is undoubtedly the one of a naked man with his head more or less in a bear's armpit. The bear is in motion, the man seems to stand completely still, while the bear appears to lean on him. C-r-r-eepy.

the most unintentionally funny book cover in the history of mankind.

(via Design Observer)

Verden Rett Vest

Er jeg den eneste som har merket meg dette?

Først, logoen til Verden til venstre, den nye open-source ideologiprosjektwebsiden til SV:

Og så, logoen til Sparebanken Vest:

Har disse samme designer, eller er dette et eksempel på det jeg har hørt flere opplever som en tiltakende vennlighet overfor kapitalismen innen SV?

Ganske uheldige typesnitt hadde de også valgt. Og hva er det det går i med den off-beige drop-shadowen? Og hvis man virkelig skal legge seg på en paranoid hermeneutikk: ligner den E-en ikke på €-tegnet?

Oppdatering: En årvåken leser på Audun Lysbakkens blogg hadde også merket seg dette designvalget.

Okay, I'm finally going to start changing the long-overdue design of the blog. Step one: new blogs in the sidebar! It's been a while. Also, old blogs that have been on hiatus have been mercilessly purged. It's not cause I don't love you, people.

We expect the new design to be up and running in as little as ten months.

FlipClock screensaver

I've discovered a quite wonderful screensaver for the design-conscious, fashion-oriented trendnïsse (as we say in Finnmärck). It's quite simply an old-style flip clock on your computer screen. It's available for free, for both mac and windows.