Designophile

It’s been a while since I’ve designed a chair, but I’ve been aching to make one for myself. Seeing Modernatique by Cho hyung suk Design only fueled that desire. Perhaps it’s because it has familiar forms to a chair I designed, but I want to revisit my own design. Hopefully I’ll get enough free time to do this before the year is out.

I found this piece on MoCo Loco.

I found out recently that Gary Hustwit is making another documentary called Urbanized. Maybe I’m a sucker for product design and graphic design, but I loved Gary’s first two documentaries (Helvetica and Objectified) and I hope his third one is as good as the first two. Seeing that I could get them for around $10 in the iTunes store makes me really tempted to buy them now too.

On another note, I think it’s a brilliant idea to fund his third documentary through Kickstarter. I was skeptical when I first saw this, but the headway he has made in the first week of his campaign makes me confident he’ll reach his goal.

I don’t know where you go to gather data about “The State of the Internet” for 2010, but I’d say this person did a good job of summing things up in a nice infographic. I knew there was a lot of spam mail flying around out there, but nearly 90%? I feel like I should write a thank you card to the developers at Google for keeping my inbox clean. Also, to think that in the time it takes me to pop a bag of popcorn, roughly 9,000 new pictures have made their way onto Flickr.

If one thing has been clearly articulated to me, it’s that there is WAY too much stuff on the internet for me to try to spend my time looking at everything. This drives home that there’s a strong future in content management and websites that offer services to sift through the garbage and bring you the gems that you really want to look at. Hopefully my website is making the cut.

I know it’s a little late for Valentine’s Day, but why does it need to be Feb 14th for romance to be in the air? I caught wind of this funny Op-Art graphic on the New York Times website. I’m a sucker for witty graphics like this that put a smile on my face. Now comes the question, which box do I check?

As far as infographics are concerned this isn’t the most eloquent of things. I still can’t get over how amusing it is. I guess this is just proof that good design isn’t always about “pretty” execution but is more about quality content. Smiles and grins to the people at TED101 who made this image.