design
insights on good design + anything else related to design
Jilber Najem and
design
Brutal Web — (Neo)-Brutalist Websites Gallery
brutalweb.xyz
After my experience at The Met, I spent the next few months viewing and considering as much beauty as I could. I went to more museums. I spent weeks researching obscure Baroque furniture makers, legendary luthiers, prominent architects, naturalist illustrators, Italian car designers, and philosophers of aesthetics. What I came out the other side... See more
Origins
Rebrand — Stellar visual identity inspiration
rebrand.gallery
Activating Change: A Designer’s Guide to Systems Thinking - Boxes and Arrows
Cara Tomkoboxesandarrows.com
“Design should also be sensual and exciting.”
Creatives behind Glossier and Brat explain the new rules of branding
Sottsass came up in a modernist design world that valued rigidity, utility, and simplicity; asking designers to ask themselves what is necessary and drop everything else. As famed industrial designer Dieter Rams has said, “Good design is as little design as possible.” Sottsass epitomizes basically the complete opposite of that.
Sottsass’s work made the case for the necessity of the superfluous. Expressive use of color, form, and decorative elements are elemental to design done well. In the modern era, design is leaning into sensuality and excitement too.
Not a fan of cassettes, but this is a pretty piece of hardware.
Joakim Jansson
sanscolour.com