We’re going to take liberties here and tell you that the following graphic could easily have turned into a very problematic assignment. However many ways there might have been to do it right, we suspect that there were many more ways it could have gone wrong. Here’s the graphic, by Matt Daigle – you can [...]
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Logo Design Love, a leading graphic design blog, has a short piece on the logos used by The International Red Cross, including the current claim by Johnson & Johnsn that the logo infringes on their trademark when used by the Red Cross to brand goods sold, in part, as fund-raisers for the U.S. Red Cross [...]
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Just came across a remarkable interview of Mies Hora (“Navigating Today’sSigns – An Interview with Mies Hora”)(TinyUrl here ) by Stev Heller in the AIGA blog. Mies Hora is the founder of UltimateSymbol, which publishes books and usable electronic images of signs (as well as fonts and some other goodies). In a sense, these books [...]
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Pictures of Numbers is one of the websites run by Mike Dickison, an accomplished polymath who’s done some excellent work in information design with scientific and other information. A typical post compares two ways of looking at religious attitudes in a set of countries; his point (if I understand correctly) is that one often has [...]
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This bandage – in a shape designed to be useful in more than one configuration – was covered with language-free instructions for use. From the amazing (and amazingly wide-ranging) “Ideo Selects ” exhibit at the Cooper-Hewitt. If you’re in or going to be visiting New York, the Cooper-Hewitt is at 2 East 91st Street – [...]
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The same messages can be communicated by signalling the letter "K" in Morse code via signal lamp. (While a proper signal lamp may be ideal, a flashlight, probably best employing red LEDs, will certainly fit the bill).
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