Finally... It took us longer than we expected (technical difficulties mostly) but VIEW magazine is back, now on Apple's Newsstand. VIEW is available as paid subscription-based magazine and issues will still be available as single-issue purchase. The first issue will continue to be a free download.
We are working on issue 3 to come out this spring!
The website we designed and programmed for the Joan Mitchell Foundation is now live. Using clean design, modern code and ExpressionEngine for the content management system. We will post an additional page about the process very soon.
I decided to shoot video of nature near my house. I didn't want it to be too special, or too beautiful but rather a slice of normal life below my feet.
What would happen if one stopped and kneeled down to see the trail of his footsteps? The ants, spiders and other creatures in nature that surrounds us, quietly looking for food, shelter or mates. This is what I saw.
See more videos that people uploaded on the One Day on Earth website.
Today, on 10/10/10, everyone is invited to shoot a video and help document the world's story. Some of our video work was highlighted on the site's blog two days ago, in anticipation of the big event.
Read more about the and learn how to participate, then go out and shoot your video!
image/words is a poetic discovery tool for photographers and writers Just choose a photo from your album (or from one of our publicly hosted images), add freeform text and you’re done! Experiment with your text, thoughts or poems. Or just make custom LOLcats. The text can be large, small, transparent or opaque and in two great colors: black or white—but with a variety of fonts.
When you’re done and happy with your creation, make an iPad™ slideshow of all your hard work (and LOLcats). If your friends are too far away to hand your iPad over to them, you can email them or share on Facebook straight from the app. And if you just want to take your images and go home, save them to your library—the high resolution images you sync via iTunes will retain their size.
When you’re not feeling creative or when your cats aren’t doing anything particularly funny, image/words connects you to our library of images with texts to get you started. We plan future updates that will provide additional and more refined typographical controls and a universal version that will work on an iPhone.
Features:
Last night’s event with Paul Shaw, Massimo Vignelli, Tom Geismar, Jan Conradi and other wonderful speakers was interesting and introspective. As Massimo noted when he went up to speak, most of the people in the room were not even born when he and Bob Noorda were hired to design the New York City Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual.
Some additional thoughts and quotes I quickly wrote down yesterday include:
Massimo on design:
“Great thing about design is that it can simplify complicated systems”
“Design is not something you do to get rich, it’s a civil responsibility”
“Design is about problem solving, not adorning.”
Massimo on the MTA:
“When working with big organizations you have to make sure the implementation is done properly, because most often they will take your work and destroy it”
Massimo on the MTA map:
“They want to put too much information on the map, they want to make it into ‘War & Peace’”
Michael Hertz on signage condition:
“We used to say, when god wants to punish a typeface he sends it to Bergen Street”
And last one, from an MTA worker (I didn’t catch his name) in the audience currently working on designs and signs, to Massimo:
“The Graphics Standards Manual you designed is the bible, we just tweak it here and there”
It was a great and lively discussion, revealing the reality of working with very large organizations. I bought the beautiful Unimark International book that was on sale there and Massimo and Jan Conradi signed it for me (even Massimo’s signature is beautifully designed…). The beautiful and limited edition Helvetica and the New York City Subway System: The True (Maybe) Story, designed by Paul Shaw and Abby Goldstein was also available, as well as some of the original Graphics Standards Manuals.
You can see larger photos on flickr.