Dec 21st, 2009

Dynamic mark

Posted by Dario Rodighiero under Design | Tags: , , |
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When I started working in the graphic design field, my master said logos must be fixed. Fortunately things are changing, so this is the most spreaded example of dynamic logo realized for the United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Copenhagen in 2009. The only similar example I remember is the Netscape logo cited by Lev Manovich in the Language of New Media.

The work has been realized by okdeluxe, a London-based design studio focused on interaction design and the design of media experiences. Companies like this demonstrate how the world of graphic design is now infected by programming languages. Now this concept is more and more evident, in fact using tools is not the final stage of graphic design, now we are able to go inside code for designing tools by ourself.

COP15 - Generative Identity Software by okdeluxe

COP15 - Generative Identity Software by okdeluxe

 

Oct 22nd, 2009

Anobii vs. LibraryThing

Posted by Dario Rodighiero under Design, Information Visualization, Library | Tags: , , |
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I am not a fan of social network systems, but when I arrived at the Ispra library I decided to join a books social network. Anobii was the choice.

The Anobii site is really nice, attractive and minimal as the Japanese style, but after three years I moved to LibraryThing for different reasons.

The main reason is that LibraryThing has more users I can share books with, especially in English. The other reason is that LibraryThing has been created by librarians,  so the system uses some specific librarian features as the Z39.50 protocol or the Library of Congress subjects. Great for me.

I am really happy for the new choice, but I miss something. I miss the minimalism of information visualization, a clear and essential layout of web pages. From this point of view LibraryThing is a mess: you have too much information, often badly arranged. There is no whole view of the project, it seems that every single application is appended somewhere just after its creation. They have a quite serious design lack.

Is not possible to have LibraryThing library approach with Anobii interface?

Curtain of books

Curtain of books by timtom.ch, Flickr

 

Sep 15th, 2009

Ponto, multi-thesaurus tool

Posted by Dario Rodighiero under Design, Library, Projects | Tags: , , , , , , , |
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Finally the multi-thesaurus tool, a project in collaboration with FAO, BGS and BNCF, has a new name, Ponto, and a logo.

Pontus was part of the old-Greek mythology. Son of Gaia, he was the god of the Mediterranean Sea and the personification of the road connecting all the nations on this Sea.

Since Pontus means connections, we found appropriate to use his Italian name Ponto – rounder than English – as metaphor of the mapping among different controlled vocabularies.

Pontos logo

Ponto's logo

 

Jul 21st, 2009

Tutorial with Aaron Marcus

Posted by Dario Rodighiero under Design, Event, Human Computer Interaction | Tags: , , , , , , , |
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Yesterday was one of the day of tutorials. I attended to one of them, named Cross-Cultural User Interface Design. The teacher was Aaron Marcus, famous to be the world’s first graphic designer involved full-time with computer graphics and the founder of Aaron Marcus and Associates. As you can guess, the day was great.

Aaron Marcus at HCI International during the tutorial

Aaron Marcus at HCI International during the tutorial

 

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