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  • An excess of brief

    If you're a designer you'll laugh - and then maybe weep. Clients should be forced to watch this before commissioning. Spotted on Ultrasparky .  Read more ...

    Published on 07/29/2008 in diaphania

  • Thinking differently

    A different way of thinking on Jessica Hagy's site . Her index cards express daily dilemmas as pithy graphs and witty Venn diagrams. And now they are in print, too. Read more ...

    Published on 05/26/2008 in diaphania

  • Ancient symbolism at the CND

    The CND is 50 , and the organisation is commemorating its anniversary by encircling AWE at Aldermaston on Easter Monday, just as they did 50 years ago. A new book commemorates a half century of the campaign's enduring symbol, which according to its pacifist designer Gerald Holtom was ... Read more ...

    Published on 03/20/2008 in diaphania

  • Apple's suspiciously tempting ways

    An article in Business Week attempts to get at the secret of Apple's design success. They say it boils down to developing ten genuinely different prototypes to a highly finished level, then letting two separate weekly meetings work away at them. One is briefed to only think 'blue sky', th... Read more ...

    Published on 03/16/2008 in diaphania

  • The power of ornament

    Web find of the month is a site devoted to complete reproductions of illuminated books. It includes Owen Jones' astonishing Grammar of Ornament (1856), a tour de force of nineteenth century letterpress and chromolithographic printing which has had an incalculable influence on artis... Read more ...

    Published on 02/22/2008 in diaphania

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