The Design Thread

DBoy · Post by **DBoy** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 9:35 am

Design rules my life.

From fashion, the architecture around me, art on my walls, in the mags I read, on the cover of the music I buy, the products I choose, the fonts I decide to use, the games I play. Design is central to my life.
It is everywhere, from the urban landscape to the virtual world, from the keybaord to the playground, from the bike you ride to the pen you write with, everything is designed.

"desgin adds value to all of our lives, it is about good ideas, logical outcomes, sustainability, effiency, beauty and quality"

What gets you off in design?

Post by **system** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 10:38 am

DBoy wrote:What gets you off in design?

definitely good typography (kerning, letter form, weighting, et al). imagery, individual flair and colour too.

DBoy wrote:"desgin adds value to all of our lives, it is about good ideas, logical outcomes, sustainability, effiency, beauty and quality"

typos tend to give me the shits though.

ADD_Boy · Post by **ADD_Boy** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 10:49 am

I'm all for good design!!

The better the design, the better the end product, the less it costs to produce and the likelihood of problems occuring are reduced, if the design is right.. [In my job anyway]

DBoy · Post by **DBoy** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 10:59 am

system wrote:
DBoy wrote:"desgin adds value to all of our lives, it is about good ideas, logical outcomes, sustainability, effiency, beauty and quality"
typos tend to give me the shits though.

I designed that to draw attention.

Post by **breaksRbest** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 11:20 am

I like design, it's the designers that shit me

ghetto kitty · Post by **ghetto kitty** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 11:47 am

same here, my life is full of analysing design and concept and how it all applies/translates to the real material world

it makes me laff when some really simple thing, like a bottle opener, doesnt work!
whats the point?

heres one of my fav things >>

this guy is one of my idols > physics in motion >
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMqftVhOuTw&eurl=

Post by **breaksRbest** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 11:54 am

ghetto kitty wrote:this guy is one of my idols > physics in motion >
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMqftVhOuTw&eurl=

is right, that's awesome!

taylem · Post by **taylem** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:00 pm

Edward Tufte

Joesef Mueller Brockman

Michael Place (designbybuild)

ghetto kitty · Post by **ghetto kitty** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:03 pm

i think you can tell a lot about a person by what design they identify with...

all that stuff you posted taylem, clean lines, movement and motion,
simplicity and elegance.
the negative space being jsut as important as the actual colours and shapes.

i think i can tell what walking into your house feels like

Post by **Friday** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:20 pm

design is a massive part of my life.

i've always enjoyed looking at beautiful things in an abstract sense, but i think one of the great things about getting older and having a little more disposable income is being able to replace some of your 'everyday' practical things and instead surround yourself with things that are cleverly and beautiful designed and give you pleasure to look at.

eg getting rid of the crappy old couches and getting something that everytime you walk into your home you can admire, as well as find comfort in.

DBoy · Post by **DBoy** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:44 pm

Friday - Nail, head. In a well presented way, maybe in black and white and with a ergonomically designed hammer.

I appreciate the things in my life that represent aspects of design I love. From the native American ceramic bowl I bought in San Fran to the Obey design on my wall. They all fit in there.

I am sure if Lucas was here he would post something like this

DEAN G · Post by **DEAN G** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 1:09 pm

Who here works in the design industry?

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 1:42 pm

Friday wrote:design is a massive part of my life.

i've always enjoyed looking at beautiful things in an abstract sense, but i think one of the great things about getting older and having a little more disposable income is being able to replace some of your 'everyday' practical things and instead surround yourself with things that are cleverly and beautiful designed and give you pleasure to look at.

eg getting rid of the crappy old couches and getting something that everytime you walk into your home you can admire, as well as find comfort in.

:doublescript:

less clutter of crap and more clean lines

love red

love angular spaces, tonnes of natural light, texture, old wood, vaulted ceilings and original facades (tonnes in brunny with the faded tetley ads on old brick etc)

hate frou frou, that fake french provincial look and hate country style, baltic wood, blue and yellow checks etc.

would gag for warehouse conversion with polished concrete floors, original timber beams, urban style art and japanese water garden with huge koi

taylem · Post by **taylem** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:37 pm

DEAN G wrote:Who here works in the design industry?

I work at a small animation / post prod / film prod company. We do a lot of different stuff, from film production to editing to motion graphics to 3d animation to traditional 2d animation to stop motion to photography - whatever we need to get the job done. However all of us have a pretty substantial graphic design background, and we all still think of ourselves as designers (not exclusively, but its a huge part of everything we do).

DEAN G · Post by **DEAN G** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:39 pm

taylem wrote:
DEAN G wrote:Who here works in the design industry?
I work at a small animation / post prod / film prod company. We do a lot of different stuff, from film production to editing to motion graphics to 3d animation to traditional 2d animation to stop motion to photography - whatever we need to get the job done. However all of us have a pretty substantial graphic design background, and we all still think of ourselves as designers (not exclusively, but its a huge part of everything we do).

Cool, this thread could be handy for networking. I'm always finding people who work in other design disciplines can often be helpful to our own.

taylem · Post by **taylem** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:43 pm

XYZ Studios

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:50 pm

Transmission Games (Formerly IR Gurus)

A lot of what I do would be considered design, but not in the normal sense.

DBoy · Post by **DBoy** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:56 pm

thats the thing, there is no normal sense.

Design covers so many areas...

Game design, brand designers, architecture, industrial design, urban design, graphic design, thearte, tv and set design, product design, fashon design, it design, craft practice, exhibition design, textile design and crosses disiplines form science, engineering, it, business and on and on.

I am becoming deeply involved with industry at large over the next few months, reading some really interesting stuff.

Post by **Friday** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:21 pm

gnat wrote:
Friday wrote:design is a massive part of my life.

i've always enjoyed looking at beautiful things in an abstract sense, but i think one of the great things about getting older and having a little more disposable income is being able to replace some of your 'everyday' practical things and instead surround yourself with things that are cleverly and beautiful designed and give you pleasure to look at.

eg getting rid of the crappy old couches and getting something that everytime you walk into your home you can admire, as well as find comfort in.
:doublescript:

less clutter of crap and more clean lines

love red

love angular spaces, tonnes of natural light, texture, old wood, vaulted ceilings and original facades (tonnes in brunny with the faded tetley ads on old brick etc)

hate frou frou, that fake french provincial look and hate country style, baltic wood, blue and yellow checks etc.

would gag for warehouse conversion with polished concrete floors, original timber beams, urban style art and japanese water garden with huge koi

nice style gnatty!! i LOVE red too. my loungeroom wall is red at our current place. with a huge red on white obey pic hanging on it - looks the bomb.

you'd love our new place. two levels - downstairs polished concrete with old beams for the ceiling. has posts all through it at used to be the stall dividers for the horses (it's an old stables), still has the hitching rings on the walls and the posts have gnaw and rope marks from the horses too.

upstairs is one massive room with beautiful old floor boards and huge pitched roof cathederal ceiling with gorgeous aged beams.

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:33 pm

sounds the bizness lady. mad jealous

love the idea of horse gnawed character

love old banged up wood that's been waxed up

have friend with massive refec style dinner table made of old railroad planks with the iron tacks in em. fucking mad. shits on my freedom imposter

Post by **Friday** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:37 pm

yeah - we gotta start collecting more furniture like that. i reckon all our furniture put together would fit in 1/4 of this place

old beaten up wood is so nice. so much character.

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:39 pm

what's that style of decorating called where they paint shit white and 'crackle' it?

two rhyming words...

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:53 pm

lol not rhyming- shabby chic

couldnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn't

Post by **Friday** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:57 pm

HATE! shabby chic. gross gross gross.

with you on the hating country / cottage style stuff. worst. this kinda stuff is so yuk:

Flash · Post by **Flash** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:57 pm

taylem wrote:XYZ Studios

word, we had a tour of your studio in st kilda with my uni and I was very impressed.

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 4:09 pm

lol I had a tour of flagrants bedroom.. I was umm.. impressed?

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 4:09 pm

hideous cabbage rose theme

like a bad acid trip

mad love for bose design too

DBoy · Post by **DBoy** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 4:13 pm

my favourite part of the week is getting to read all my design newsletters.

Artkrush / Coolhunter / Flavourpill / 3000 / lifelounge etc
Got about a dozen I actually enjoy now.

ADD_Boy · Post by **ADD_Boy** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 4:21 pm

getting som of my furnitures here..

http://www.hubfurniture.com.au

DEAN G · Post by **DEAN G** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 4:31 pm

DBoy wrote:my favourite part of the week is getting to read all my design newsletters.

Artkrush / Coolhunter / Flavourpill / 3000 / lifelounge etc
Got about a dozen I actually enjoy now.

we just got asked by cool hunter for permission to host some images of our work!

DBoy · Post by **DBoy** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 4:39 pm

thats a big prop in my book.

cha_chaos · Post by **cha_chaos** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 1:17 pm

KTM RC8.. bam... orange... mmm

Ducatti 848, i was stickly Japanese but now this is my new love... 23k on road, only needs to be serviced every 12,000 km. mmmmm and it's WHITE. sold.

Did i mention brembo brakes and single swing arm? rad

Post by **huge** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 1:22 pm

looks like a pokemon eating a tire. huhuh

Hatsudai · Post by **Hatsudai** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 1:29 pm

http://www.design-police.org

cha_chaos · Post by **cha_chaos** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 1:40 pm

huge wrote:looks like a pokemon eating a tire. huhuh

well lucky i love pokemon

resist · Post by **resist** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 3:37 am

ghetto kitty wrote: this guy is one of my idols > physics in motion >
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMqftVhOuTw&eurl=

At the moment I'm living in the Netherlands, nearby Jansen's workshop. a few months ago, he had an open day. The workshop was pretty small, not much to see (surprisingly!), just 2 garden sheds on top of a hill. Inside it looked pretty much like a regular handy-man's shed... no magic dust...

There was lots of old/broken 'animals' and parts lying around outside. He also had 2 large ones which were operational. One BIG animal was powered by an air compressor. The smaller one (well, the size of a Mini), needed to be pushed by hand... you gave it a gentle push and the legs would start working and carry it along for a few meters. Amazing stuff! The motion was like a crab.. the legs are always moving, but only a couple of them are touching the ground at any time.

Jansen was walking around, talking to people and giving occasional demonstrations of the air compressor animal.

ghetto kitty · Post by **ghetto kitty** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 5:50 pm

wow resist...

i would love to see his studio

and to meet him, hes one guy id love to have over for dinner!

nhd · Post by **nhd** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 6:14 pm

taylem you work for XYZ?? mad!
i went to a design night there as part of AGIdeas maybe 2-3 years ago. loved XYZs work!

DBoy · Post by **DBoy** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 5:57 pm

the holding page for http://stateofdesign.com.au/ has just gone up

If you are in design, get involved.

andy_hoffman · Post by **andy_hoffman** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 6:27 pm

Here's another theo jansen clip with a bit more detail about how his animals work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b694exl_oZo

Blaxter · Post by **Blaxter** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 7:46 pm

mrj · Post by **mrj** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 8:00 pm

cha_chaos wrote:[img]

single swing arm? rad

:cough: copied cannondale :cough:

same o · Post by **same o** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 11:40 am

i love good design, awesome fonts kerning lettering..

i wanna go do 3d at aie nxt year..
saving like a mofo atm..

DBoy · Post by **DBoy** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 11:53 am

nice one mate, i think that suit you.

same o · Post by **same o** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 11:56 am

yeah i cant wait, i hate my job..

the only thing that gets me through the day is knowing the next year i will be able to quit this god forsaken place and never have to look at another superanuation policy apart from my own.

cha_chaos · Post by **cha_chaos** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 12:17 pm

mrj wrote:
cha_chaos wrote:[img]

single swing arm? rad
:cough: copied cannondale :cough:

?

same o · Post by **same o** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 3:27 pm

cha_chaos wrote:
mrj wrote:
cha_chaos wrote:[img]

single swing arm? rad
:cough: copied cannondale :cough:
?

i think he is saying canondale pushies did it first and ducati stole the design feature...........

ADD_Boy · Post by **ADD_Boy** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:43 pm

I think this is possibly one of the sexiest cars I have ever seen [Haven't heard the best things about it's performance/quality tho] but it looks SEX!!

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 5:27 pm

That's the brerra (sp?) yeah? I saw that at the motorshow last year or the year before. Looked hot.

retzie · Post by **retzie** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 6:06 pm

Mmm, Alfa Brera. They are lovely on the inside too - wish I'd gotten to drive it. They have inherited a lot of the functionality from the 156 upgrade to the 159, so they aren't as bad as they could have been on that front. Mind you, would willingly put up an awful lot for the sheer awesome of owning one. Makes the competition look like they're from Ikea.

With the exception of the 80s, Alfa's are generally on the money on the aesthetics front (Giulietta Spider anyone?). And I hope we've all see the 8C...

:homerdrool:

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