Google announced a new logo yesterday. I can only vaguely imagine how big of a task it is to redesign the logo for a company like Google. While there are many that “dislike” it, i think it works quite well. It’s definitely much more modern, but the tilted e at the end still preserve some of the “goofy-ness” from the old logo and the animations with those jumping dots do feel playful and match the overall style.
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Since yesterday you can download picu from WordPress.org as a Public Beta. We hope to gather as much feedback as we can from an even broader range of photographers.
Download it, test it, rip it apart, review it, send us your inputs. But please don’t forget that picu is in “public beta” and just learned to walk, so please be kind to it :)
This is fantastic! I always liked globes, those really old, large ones mounted in a wooden cntainer – and i love hand-crafted products. And this video shows the process of the (probably) only producer of hand-crafted globes. Really fascinating!
So what is the designer’s role in this? Design is an ethical trade. And yes, it is a trade done for money. But we have a choice in how we make that money. A designer possesses a set of skills necessary to get something made. And needs to properly assess how they are putting those skills to use. But, won’t someone else just design it?
A great answer by Mike Monteiro on the question whether we can separate the intent from an object and if one can appreciate an AK-47 for it’s “good” design on an aesthetic level although it’s designed purpose is to kill.
A very detailed redesign concept for the NYTimes from russian designer Artem Troinoi.
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So the world of the near future is one of power constrained devices in a bandwidth-constrained environment. It’s very different from the recent past, where hardware performance went up like clockwork, with more storage and faster CPUs every year.
And as designers, you should be jumping up and down with relief, because hard constraints are the midwife to good design. The past couple of decades have left us with what I call an exponential hangover.
(Maciej Cegłowski)
In case you missed it: A few weeks ago, swiss company Logitech revealed a new logo as well as a change of their name to logi. I do like the new logo and the explanation for the name change makes perfect sense to me:
“If we look out five or ten years, it’s going to seem odd for a company to call itself “something-tech,” says CEO Bracken Darrell. “There will be tech in your clothing, in your shoes, in your tires. To be Logitech at that point will seem awfully 1980s.”
Also, it reminds of that other company which cropped “…Computers” off it’s name in 2007.
Wired – New Logitech logo: ‘Hey, We Don’t Just Make Mice Anymore’
Handpicked code snippets you can use in your web projects. Find web design inspiration with code samples.
A nice collection of Tutorials and Code Snippets from all around the web.
The Mobile Checker is a tool for Web developers who want to make their Web page or Web app work better on mobile devices.
The W3C released a tool to check your mobile websites. Pretty sweet.