Good Design - Page 34

Capt Jack · 01-14-2011, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Frikitiki

While this may not be architecture, I like the design of the web site and the music that it produces: http://www.incredibox.fr/

oh Im boned now. I wont get a single thing done the rest of the day.

thanks!

Frikitiki · 01-14-2011, 10:37 AM

Yeah, I had to force myself away from the site too!

Kevy Baby · 01-14-2011, 10:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Alex

As somebody who paid a lot of money to be specifically trained on the value and methods of organizing information for best access, many of those pictures actually give me mild cases of the willies (such as shelving books based on color cover).

Color coordination isn't part of the Dewey Decimal System?

Alex · 01-14-2011, 10:58 AM

People coming and asking for a book but they "can't remember the title but think it had a red and blue cover" is a common industry joke for reference desk librarians.

Ghoulish Delight · 01-14-2011, 11:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Alex

As somebody who paid a lot of money to be specifically trained on the value and methods of organizing information for best access, many of those pictures actually give me mild cases of the willies (such as shelving books based on color cover).

And that's why it's called "porn" not "text book illustrations of proper book cataloging."

Alex · 01-14-2011, 11:52 AM

Yes, but I define porn as the gratuitous display of something I want to see. Especially in a thread about good design, which means (to me) fulfilling a functional purpose with a certain flair.

That's why I don't like many of the houses that have been presented in this thread. They may be quite striking as art objects but strike me as horribly designed as residences for actual people.

Ghoulish Delight · 01-14-2011, 12:01 PM

That's one definition of porn I suppose. But I tend to consider porn to just be something purely about the visual aesthetic, not the practicality. Lord knows most of what one sees in porn (of the sexual variety) hardly fulfills a functional purpose, though it often has a certain flair.

Point taken from the "design" standpoint, but I still find value in design taken to non-practical extremes for purely aesthetic or theoretical purposes.

Ghoulish Delight · 01-17-2011, 02:01 PM

Zoetropic awesomeness

Kevy Baby · 02-06-2011, 06:43 PM

727 home - interesting

Frikitiki · 02-06-2011, 08:08 PM

We have a guy over here in Honolulu who has renovated old tour buses into temporary homeless shelters. I like the plane idea better!

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