General Discussion

Das Designkritik-Portal http://www.designkritik.dk hat die in Halle erschienene Zeitschrift Neuwerk unter die Lupe genommen. [more...]

It is now ten years since Anthony Dunne published the "Hertzian Tales". We might count it as the official birthday of Critical Design. I would like to take this anniversary as an opportunity to look back: What has happened to design practice and theory during the last decade due to the book, and the projects? What have we learned? What do we miss? Where does the critique lead us? How does it help? Does it help? [more...]

some videos on modern architecture by Brazilians [more...]

I found it interesting that recently a young german was honoured with the red dot in communication design for his interactive game/installation "surveillance map of the world.

Really wonderful piece of information design and - like in city murmur - the concept of showing hidden qualities of informational space.

I invited Raul to our Network (contact after the jump) [more...]

As part of Google’s Authors@Google, Kenya Hara discusses his awesome book “Designing Design” and his new book “White”. Warning, it runs for 53 mins [more...]

To celebrate the world usability day (wasnt it just one blink away in November?) the international network for user experience (UXalliance) published a study on parking meters.

The International Parking Meters Study will explore interface and interaction design of parking meters around the world and examine different parking meter interfaces and the common problem of designing an interface to accommodate a broad range of users trying to achieve multiple tasks. [more...]