outlinks archive

Back to the Future of the Web

Vitamin’s feature, interviewing 16 designers, as to, years from now, what we will look back upon as important features/milestones of the Web as today. Link

100 Unused Logos

And what they say about a designer’s inclinations. Link

John Waters Inc.

Great profile of John Waters in Baltimore Magazine. There’s a lot more to him than just kitsch and trash; he’s becoming one of the renaissance men of his generation. Link

Everything I Know About Design…

Michael Bierut shares the insight that The Sopranos brought to design. Link

Erik Spiekermann Interview

The lucky folks at Ideas on Ideas blog snagged a great interview. The money quote: “It is my greatest fear to die stupid.” Link

Automobile Design Language

From the NY Times (reg. req.), an explanation of terms like rake, greenhouse, rocker, character line, and others specific to car designers. Link

Helvetica

The little typeface that leaves a big mark. Link

Hacking John McCain

Mike Davidson of Newsvine found that John McCain’s MySpace page was using his code and hosted images without permission, so he made a delicate point about it. Link

The Value of Original Design

A lengthy conversation/obfuscation/apologia on Flickr, concerning the theft of a logo originally created by designer Dan Cederholm of SimpleBits, and other major corporate logos offered for sale illegally by a unprincipled logo chopshop. Link

Blogs and the Post-Cluetrain Reality

Hugh MacLeod of gapingvoid gives a talk to Edelman about the state of blogging these days. Spot on. Link