Posts filed under 'graphics'

open design

On Thursday I went to #Voicetweetup and got the chance to handle an iPad, imported from America by Amanda Clark. It’s by all means an impressive device, and I admire it’s aesthetic simplicity, yet overall it’s a flawed product. The reason I see it as flawed is that it’s not open. To help you understand what I [...]

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Bioshock has meaning.

Back from my last post I was thinking about design and I remember having played Bioshock this week. I returned and took some pictures: Apparently the game is a critique Ayn Rand’s philosophy. I don’t know Ayn Rand, or her theory of Objectivism. But I gather it has something to do with leaving humans to do [...]

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German designers are very cool.

On Friday I went to the London Design Museum, it’s a fairly small place with only three exhibitions. Nevertheless it was educational and I found some quirky facts like that Braun clocks were always kept at 8 minutes past 10 in promotion photos because that’s the time the hands look most evenly spread. The exhibitions were on the surface just [...]

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Cuts for all!

I’ve been working on this sketch in ten-minute spurts for about a week now. I wanted to use the same iconography of capitalism on the flag that was displayed by the Clan Destined in this video and this post. It’s pretty self explanatory really, oh and the background is the London stock exchange. The image [...]

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