It's sometimes hard to believe that something "modern" looking could be close to 100 years old. But that's the beauty of timeless design. In the world of typography, Futura is that case in point.
Here is a beautiful short film about Futura.
Futura was designed in 1927 by Paul Renner. Based on geometric shapes, it became representative of visual elements of the…
A young man in a small town in Patagonia or in Kansas reads an ancient Chinese poet in a book he borrowed from the library and falls in love with a poem, which he reads to himself over and over again as the summer night is falling. With each reading he brings the voice of the dead poet to life. For one unforgettable moment, he steps out of his own cramped self and enters the lives of unknown men and women, seeing the world through their eyes, feeling what they once felt and thinking what they once thought. If poetry is not the most utopian project ever devised by human beings, I don’t know what is.
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/jun/07/poetry-and-utopia/
I was so excited to see this article on Fast Co. Design:
“Apple. The name has become synonymous with good design. But it’s also had a few missteps in recent years. Skeuomorphism is taking the place of clean interfaces.”
Here’s another talking about the whole thing:
As both Thompson’s and Biddle’s articles describe, the philosophy that drives the majority of contemporary UIs is called skeuomorphism. Derived from the Greek words Skeuos, meaning vessel or tool, and morph, meaning shape, a skeuomorph is, according to the Oxford Dictionary, a “derivative object that retains ornamental design cues to a structure that was necessary in the original.” The term can apply to either a physical or digital creation. In other words, it means to replicate the form and material qualities of something that are no longer inherently necessary, all with the objective of making new designs “look comfortably old and familiar,” Nicholas Gessler writes in “Skeuomorphs and Cultural Algorithms.” When applied to UI, the logic here is that it will make the interface more intuitive and usable, as the user will understand how it functions based on their knowledge of the analog object it is replicating.
- http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669879/can-we-please-move-past-apples-silly-faux-real-uis
But what I am really fascinated with is how we choose or become with Skeuomorphs. The investigation continues.
Patience is a virtue.
Oh, VIRGINIA ECHEVERRIA WHIPPLE! I LOVE YOUR WORK!
Such a clever, charming story about the forty years of Pentagram.
Oh Paola! Ditto on the heaven and being way more comfortable with objects than with people.
Just to add to the fantasy, wouldn’t it also be great to take all the classes you want? And do all the projects you are interested in too? ::dreaminess::
