Dartmoor
Silence.
It’s a 90’s revival!
Neville Brody is challenging designers again. David Carson is at conferences again. Magazines are reinventing publishing again. It’s all like, totally wild.
To celebrate these momentous times I’ve put together a user stylesheet to bring those bleeding-edge 90s design ideals to our current snoozefest crop of mainstream web sites. You can download the stylesheet here (only tested in Safari/Chrome I’m afraid.)
Flickr
The New York Times
Facebook
Ive on design
“The best design explicitly acknowledges that you cannot disconnect the form from the material—the material informs the form”Jonathan Ive talking to Core77.
I entirely agree. Which makes iBooks impersonation of a dead tree just that little bit more grating:
It should not be played with
Extract from the Braun brand guidelines booklet on display at Less and More, The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams at the Design Museum.
Seduction techniques
![Braun Categorically rejects the idea of motivating people to buy its products by adding features that toy with the psycological sub-terrain of the consumer's consciousness. Braun refuses to swell sales by exploiting human frailties: neither its products nor it [sic] advertising use such seduction techniques.](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2708/4300956589_7a7db679dc_o.jpg)
Detail from Less and More, The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams at the Design Museum.
