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First Look blog.
six columns broadsheet newspaper layout
Redesign of online edition
Redesign of the New York Times.
Redesign of the New York Times at the expense of brand equity.
June 15, 1961, Haus der Ministerien in East Berlin – Walter Ulbricht promises a Berlin without walls: “Nobody intends to build a wall.”
Photo: dpa
Good design dissolves into behavior says Naoto Fukasawa. If so, the intended behaviour can be manipulated.
Is it the ZDF tv station’s intend to encourage a man hunt or is it meant to provide an incentive for politicians to act responsibly?
At court, witnesses are required to respond with yes or no. A cause for direct questions on behalf of the public procecutor. #ZDFcheck taken literarily must demonstrate its moral standard with immediacy: The side-by-side confrontation of pre-election promises on one hand, and the chronologic listing of achieved facts on the other hand (see chart below).
ZDFcheck must remain available and kept relevant online for the time it takes to full-fill made promises.
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One page wonder BudCadell.com
The bread and butter income of a good bunch of ad agencies is often determined by sales of dynamic brand sites. In the Ninteties fidgety web sites with lots of animations were confused with being dynamic. Back then it was close to impossible to sell web design to brands without flash animation.
We are getting there, however to date it is common practice at many locations to sell customers dead websites as dynamic.
Today we have learned, that social competence is responsible for dynamism to happen. Websites that have been made sociable like blogs with technology aided ability to support interaction of beings and brands by interpreting and responding to ping backs and references made elsewhere on the web.
Even so, websites are becoming as static as print with no indication of social competence. They are acheaologic findings from the nineties. The web has plenty to show.
Cadell’s credentials site is best practice, revealing construction details for how to build your website today. The site reflects Cadell’s unique personality, including a factual chronicle of the professional and personal timeline of the well reputed strategist at Deutsch agency in Los Angeles. British Guardian lists Cadell as one of 10 strategist, to watch this year (2013).
Ich find principles and reasons why, extremely helpful in getting to know people and companies, here Bud Cadell’s:
Contradicting my usual recommendation, that of making use of widely spread off-the-shelf software and build websites with WordPress or the blogging software you favor, Cadell’s site is hand coded. That is because he can, he must be surrounded by talented friends and colleagues at Deutsch. Cadell’s knowledge transfer takes place exemplarily supported by WordPress 3.4.1, at “What consumes me“.
Tumblr blog freecabinporn.com: Cabin in Appomattox, Virginia contributed by Jody Johnston
It’s cold outside via tumblr blog This Isn’t happiness™ by Peteski who’s real name is Peter Nidzgorski
tumblr’s silly claim
100,2million blogs |
44,6billion entries |
167staff members |
How an existing system, that of dominant forerunner WordPress can be outperformed with even simpler user design.
WordPress, currently boasts over 63 million blogs, attracting 382 million people who view 3.6 billion pages per month. The site also claims that its users generate 39.3 million new posts and 41.4 million new comments per month (source: hindustantimes.com).
NYTimes with unaltered editorial design since 2006.
NYTimes redesign for improced handling with mobile devices. 
The short answer: No, of course not. Recently webdesign has returned to its raw HTML purism driven by the popularity of blogs in the past 10 years and the simplified user experience that comes with it. Overcomplicated user interfaces introduced by ad agencies and their brand client were repelled. An enormous outcome, considereing how many million Dollars were thrown at the web by ad agencies and their brand clients. The real driver is the creativity of the young, technology savvy such as Matt Mullenweg of WordPress, David Karp of tumblr or Ben Silbermann of Pinterest und the high volume of successful bloggers the three enabled and brought forward. Liquid design has been offering a viable solution for 17 years to allow for creative management of multiple output formats i.e. mobile devices and larger pc or tv displays. Template & theme based design is standard since 17 years. Meanwhile Lauren Indvik has more for you on Mashable.
Thumbnail image courtesy Laura Sapiens 
Laura Sapiens’ Ego mouse stores your digial identity so you carry it between bluetooth capable devices.
1961 Continental… and today 
Lincoln’s new global chief Matt VanDyke explains why it is that Lincoln is now the Lincoln Motor Company. Learn more from Justin Berkowitz here. Why then did the Lincoln Motor Company make such an effort to have Beck sing Bowie. something not even the complex website has an answer for.
I am less puzzled, that the German advertising trade magazine WuV published an article about David Bowie’s online strategy for his new album, which I just can’t get my head around.
Beck’s interpretation of David Bowie’s “Sound and Vision.”
Client: Lincoln
Agency: Hudson Rouge
Agency: Willo Perron & Associates
Production Company: @radical.media
Director: Chris Milk
Client: Sony
Product: Xperia Z
Agency: McCann, London
Production Company: @radical.media
Director: Tarsem Singh
Petting zoo by Christoph Niemann An interactive picture book with animals to poke and pet… 20 animals …and plenty of wonder. Make animals… …cry
source: Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan for Fast Company CoDesign via Swiss Miss
A picture book so intuitive, the user doesn’t need words. I envision it to be as successfully entertaining and involving as a website for grown ups, so intuitive, the user doesn’t need a navigation or menu items.
Petting zoo is an iPad/iPhone app for $1.99 available at the Apple appstore.
Christoph Niemann hand drawn illustrations have been published for the past five years on his New York Times Blog, besides the 7 books that were published. During work in progess, he has teached himself coding so he can get the animals to move about the screen, though his friend Jon Huang helped with the real coding.
A scalable side effect from all the intuitive magic, is the total lack of language barriers. With no words, instructions, navigation needed, the picture book is available to any kid around the globe, no matter what language is spoken.
Lincoln – McDonald – Grant
Бухгалтерские услуги в Москве
Elizabeth’s Secret
This is great! A corporate web site for a bookkeeping company that is full of secrets and nice surprises, contributed by Sasha Firs, a web designer from Bremen, Germany.
(all without flash… of course).
source: Fast Company CoDesign
Last year I witnessed how Bud Caddell came up with the decision and eventually introduced a new design for his marketing blog and I decided to steel all his ideas, with a difference.
Brooklyn friend Randi Joseph, had long exposed me as rigid even for a German, and Caddell’s design breathes an air of nonchalance. An ease of being that would help German brands with not taking themselves too serious.
The issue with me is that I see nothing wrong with taking my work serious, I mean, I have been taking my work to bed with me, so I can have a look before falling asleep.
Now, I don’t touch work before I banged my head at outlining and having filled in the paint by numbers of what the design aims at accomplishing for the intended audience. With pockets empty, I couldn’t help but keep the costs at an absolute minimum by anticipating the needed handles on the developers part.
Product specifications inherit a tendency to exponentially grow in volume, comparable to a telephone directory and pass responsibility on to the contractor. With a brief, I am responsible for my project, it’s not negotiable. A briefing risks interpretation on behalf of the developer, who in turn may come up with better solutions.
With Petra Hammerstein’s culinary diary, came familiarity and comfort, which Lucida Grande provides the reader with. Der Mut anderer (the courage of others) is a racehorse amongst the blogs Esther and I designed, with a loyal following of a popular food blog. I find Lucida more soothing, an inexplicable hybrid of sans serif and serif fonts and less stingy on the eye than Helvetica or Times. It appears unpretentious without putting too much of a toll on elegance.
Same goes for my choice of headline font Margot. Another hybrid, and in the words of the typographer, the result of a Mariage of Cooper Black and a common typewriter font. The aim is not to come across as highbrow intellectual and be mistaken as interior designer or an academically educated designer, which would be the case with overly aethetically pleasing designs we have come to know from art school design. Design just looks more like it, when you can feel it’s being used and abused.
In keeping with age 56, I help with the design for business projects.
招き猫 Beckoning wookies (waving at machines).
Wookie illustration by daughter and comic artist Elizabeth Blue.
