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Design Inspiration

Alex Dragulescu: http://sq.ro
Apple profile on Takagi Masakatsu: http://apple.com/pro/profiles/takagi

Savings Account Comic Released

A true labour of love, my friend Maurcio just released his latest comic, Savings Account

“A short comic book story about an old woman with nothing to lose. Written by Juliana Azevedo and illustrated by Mauricio Pommella.”

The artwork is splendid and the story is an original. So please consider supporting independent artists and buy it now!

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Vancouverising

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I didn’t know “Vancouverising” was a verb. This is an interesting article on the impact Vancouver has had on the architectural world.

According to www.urbandictionary.com, Vancouverising is “the act of transforming any object into a Vancouver Canucks shrine.” On behalf of the world of architecture and urban planning, we beg to differ… AZURE

The Most Effective Way to Visualize Complexity

Visualizing Complexity

You’ve heard it before: “We’re drowning in information and starving for knowledge“. Of course this isn’t an entirely new thought. There have been lots of elaborate methods proposed to combat this predicament we’re increasingly finding ourselves in. Google seems to do a good job of helping us out with sorting our data.

But I think the onus of meeting this challenge also lies somewhere else…

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Graffiti Wall for the Richmond Winter Festival

There’s some really cool stuff happening in Vancouver. Here’s a kick-ass touch-screen project from my buds Alex and Brett featured last weekend at the Richmond Winter Festival–


http://vimeo.com/675735

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From Pretty to Hyper-Beautiful


“No Wonder Our Perception of Beauty is Distorted”

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Western Washington University Talk

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Thanks to the students and faculty of Western Washington University for inviting me to speak last night on my design practice at mod7.

Design Thievery, or Design Inevitability?

I realize that this article is about more than the SearchMash ”controversy”, but I want to comment on that aspect for a moment and leave the explicit thieves aside for now… 

Design is meant to be consumed. When we create “designs”, we are communicating to an audience. For effective communication to take place, we need to communicate using forms and modes that are in keeping with the visual language of the audience which we are communicating with.

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