Further to my earlier post about Google and the Da Vinci code, look what happens if you search for Tom Hanks.
Or Audrey Tautou.
Or Dan Brown.
Or Da Vinci.
Tom Hanks is reasonable, but Da Vinci? Just "Da Vinci"? That seems like pretty broad stemming to me.
Powerful, powerful stuff. Must be costing a fortune.
Waiting for a lift. Deep underground. In a crowded corridor. In a cramped alcove.
There's no need, is there?
I think I'm going to make this a separate category.
More finds from my old scrapbook (stop me if all this reminiscing is getting a little boring).
About 10 years ago I had this idea for a book. It was a crap idea and it never went anywhere. But I did compile a list of people I would like to contribute. So this is kind of a list of the Top 30 or so graphic designers from ten years ago. As decided by me.
Most of these people would be on that list if I wrote it again today (there would be additions obviously). Quite a few of them I've met now, which is a bit odd.
I had this idea that you could run a design consultancy like a doctors surgery, or a hospital.
Not really sure what this was about. Looks interesting though.
Once upon a long, long time ago I applied for a job on a pornographic magazine. As a designer. I even went for an interview. In the interview I had to design two double page spreads in one hour. I remember finding that really hard at the time, whereas now it would be easy.
The day before the interview I sat down and tried to work some through some layouts on paper. Looking back they seem devoid of any real thought. Completely gridless! But colourful and all good fun.
I didn't get the job and I was told that my layouts weren't, er, graphic enough (not the graphic you and I mean). Shame - because they paid very well!
I loved this logo then, and I love it now.
We were going through some stuff in the garage yesterday and I found a scrapbook that I started keeping straight after I'd left University.
Some of it is absolute rubbish, some of it is naive, but some of it I still like and agree with. Seeing as it's a Bank Holiday (in England anyway) I thought I'd post some of the pages here.
Here's the first one, where I talk about creating a portfolio in biro.
Sigh. Nintendo have announced that their new console is going to be called Wii.
Yep, Wii.
No one seems to like it, for obvious reasons. The FT don't like it. Seth doesn't like it. But funniest of all are the people at the Triforce who, quite correctly take Nintendo to task when they say the name is distinctive and easy to remember.
Nintendo say,
"Wii can easily be remembered by people around the world, no matter what language they speak. No confusion. No need to abbreviate. Just Wii."
The Triforce say,
"Seriously, when has *anyone* forgotten the name of a console they’re playing? Are you blaming the poor sales of your previous home systems down to the fact people can’t remember them?
“Mum, what I really want for Christmas is that console that plays Mario 64 and Wave Race 64, please?”
“Certainly, little Timmy; what’s it called?”
“Um… um… um… Fuck it, I can’t remember. Just get me a fucking PlayStation.”
Nice animation though.
All the information architects I know reckon that the BBC News website has the best usability design. By miles and miles.
So I thought it would be interesting to take a screen shot of the home page from each of the last seven years. (That's the kind of thing I find interesting.)
This is brilliant. A little bit of humour.
This is a gorgeous website.
So many websites look like... well, they look like they've been generated on a computer. This one looks like a human hand has been involved. Somewhere along the line, anyway.
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