Category: Graphic Design

  • Save To… the Cloud?

    Savetothecloud

    A couple of years ago, my good friend Ian Pringle wrote about the anachronistic persistence of a floppy disc icon to indicate a save command.

    Ian noted that the notion of ‘saving’ in an age of web applications is itself an absurd notion and that state is perhaps more appropriate – recording a temporal snapshot of attributes and values. However, expressing state/time in a universally comprehensible icon is a daunting brief…

    Of course, replacing the floppy with a hard drive or USB key icon would be just as arcane as a 3.5″ disc, but I’ve noticed recently that alpha-geeks speak of saving to the cloud or assert that a particular document is in the cloud.

    With the advent of web-based applications such as Google Docs and the emergence of cloud computing, perhaps The Cloud is an appropriately contemporary metaphor for saving a piece of work.

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    Curiously, the discless Google Docs does employ the traditional 3.5″ floppy icon, but the disc-based iWork does not

  • The Tango Project

    The Tango Project Tango is a collaborative effort of a variety of free/open-source software designers and artists to work towards unifying the visual style of the free (mostly Linux) desktop…so far Tango have published a style guide and a set of base icon library.

  • Unfortunate Graphics…

    Fema What should the Federal Emergency Management Agency really have done during Hurricane Katrina? Jon Stewart suggests the answer may lie in an unfortunate graphic on the official FEMA website showing the key stages of FEMA deployment, beginning with Disaster and leading ultimately to, um Disaster…a perfect example of Policy By Powerpoint. If you want to dumb down your policy presentation, try not to employ dumb design.

    You can catch Jon Stewart’s hilarious clip here (time code 3:58, streaming Windows Media).

  • Round The World

    Energyclinic The Energy Clinic’s home page depicts a map of the world as a simple cluster of overlapping circles… a simple, lovely, abstracted graphic of a well known image 🙂

  • Designers Galactic Republic

    Music2titan_2 The European Space Agency recently commissioned The Designers Republic to create an ident for its Music2Titan project. Evidently, ESA-mission.heads were inspired by  tDR’s Wipeout team patches 😉

    The Cassini-Huygens probe will carry a four-track CD to Saturn’s moon Titan ‘for intergalactic and himan audiences.’

    iTunes users can listen to Music2Titan at their local store…