Transportation For America » Dangerous by Design 2011 Map of Fatalities →
t4america.org
interactive map of U.S. pedestrian deaths, 2001-2009
June 2011
May 2011
“Ill-defined problems, short project schedules, and a lack of patience are common conditions in design, and these can often lead to poor solutions. Doing research demands being comfortable with ambiguity in the early stages of a project in order to attain eventual clarity. This usually occurs through a process of synthesis—cutting the raw data down to size to find patterns and themes. It is this clarity that can enable a designer to focus on the right part of the problem at the right time in the right way. “But what should we focus on?” is one of the most common questions in the business. Even the legendary Charles Eames expressed a similar sentiment when asked about the boundaries of design. He responded, “What are the boundaries of problems?”
—The Art of Design Research (and Why It Matters) - Atlantic Mobile (via timoni)
“Ideas cause ideas and help evolve new ideas. They interact with each other and with other mental forces in the same brain, in neighboring brains, and thanks to global communication, in far distant, foreign brains.”
—Roger Sperry (swissmiss)
Dial-A-Grue →
dial-a-grue.com
Zork played with TDD and a rotary phone
“There are too many shoddy, unconsidered things in the world already. Given the widespread distribution of today’s digital production tools, it’s remarkably simple to make nearly anything, especially things claiming to critique design through the rejection of formal rigor. Making things well, making them beautifully, making them with craft, making them with an excess of effort, demonstrates a respect for one’s own labor and an expression of love for the world that dissolves perceived categories of work and pleasure.”
—WHAT IS DESIGN? A Manifesto for the Gwangju Design Biennale 2011 by Project Projects (via viafrank)
“Tufte killed the idea that we are afraid of numbers. And once you get over that idea, you can’t really justify the birthday-party-clown school of data visualization, where you need bright colors and shiny things to convey that the stock market went down this week.”
—Tobias Frere-Jones (via The Washington Monthly)
London Low Life →
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street culture, social reform and the Victorian underworld
historical maps, documents, images and thematic maps of Victorian London
