Observing London, 2009
I’ve posted about 150 photos fo Flickr from our recent trip to London. Here’s a few favorites
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I’ve posted about 150 photos fo Flickr from our recent trip to London. Here’s a few favorites
See also:
The first golden age of movable books began in the late 1800s, when European publishers crafted elaborate books for children, and ended with the onset of World War I. With Mr. Hunt's epiphany, the second golden age was about to begin.
"I knew I'd found the magic key," Mr. Hunt said. "No one was doing pop-ups in this country. No one could afford to make them here. They had to be done by hand, and labor was too expensive."
He started Graphics International, and produced a series of pop-up ads featuring zoo scenes as part of a magazine campaign for Wrigley's gum. Soon, his company was creating pop-up table decorations and greeting cards for Hallmark.
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Construction site, London, July 2008
The hook – a huge metal piece that moves through the site at all heights – is painted Day-Glo orange to increase the likelihood that people will see it, and avoid it.
Rack o’ seats, Tate Modern, London, July 2008
This is a nice touch: self-serve portable seating for your journey through an art museum.
Upon entering the Visitor’s Centre at the Battersea Power Station we encountered an enormous graphic, printed on canvas, and mounted on the wall like a work of art.
Here’s a thumbnail (click to see it on Flickr – account required)
or view it full size here.
Here’s a detail:
It looks as if the team working on the redevelopment conducted (or simulated the output of) an in-depth brainstorm session and had someone illustrate the resulting mental map/conceptual framework/jargony-jargon-jargon. But this is a bit of insider cricket, so why is it presented like artwork and the first thing that greets a visitor? An odd, if intriguing, way of using an artifact like this.
Previously on Battersea Power Station
Also: see more of my London and Sheffield pictures here.
While in the UK recently I took advantage of an extremely rare opportunity to tour the long-closed Battersea Power Station. It’s an iconic part of the London landscape, known to many for appearing on the cover of Pink Floyd’s Animals.
The tour was basically a community open house, to try and drum up support/input for the redevelopment plans. Visitors were asked to complete a survey…
…and this question caught my eye:
I really got a kick out of the localized UK English choices for the responses.
Also: see my pictures from the Battersea Power Station here and more of my London and Sheffield pictures here.
Previous posts on surveys:
Trust Your Senses, security poster, London Underground, 2008
Eye Bee M, Paul Rand, 1970
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I was recently in the UK to give the opening keynote at the Design Research Society’s Undisciplined conference. I detail some of my academic and professional history and talk about the concerns of a practitioner, perhaps an alternate take on what many in the audience (designers from academic settings) are thinking about themselves.
Here are slides and audio in separate widgets. You can start the audio and advance the slides manually to follow along. The talk goes for about 45 minutes and the discussion for another 25 or so.
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Carnaby Street kiosk, London, July 2008
In a previous post I described an interactive display that looked like a static display. Here’s a static display that looks like an interactive display, through the color palette, the type of graphics, and the use of touchable materials (such as the black rubber) from consumer electronic devices.
See more of my London and Sheffield pictures here.
Manners poster, London, 2008
Different town, different ideas about public behavior. While I don’t want to smell anyone’s odors (fragrance, bodily, or foodie), the declaration that “smelly food” will be avoided was surprising to me. It’s a rather specific act that I hadn’t really thought about before.
We had a good conversation about this poster today at the BBC. I talked about social norms, and how one tactic to changing behavior is to help more people do something, so that those who choose not to do it are clearly on the outside. They shared the history of these posters, where the specific things being avoided by the characters are not new, but instead of the previous version where a blue-text-on-white authoritative voice warned that smelly food and other actions were prohibited, this has shifted to a more inclusive collective voice – “together.”
It’s also a story about following the rules (for the greater good) rather than not following the rules.
Update: another poster from the campaign here.
See more of my London and Sheffield pictures here.