Pages tagged “paris”
My post office features a clever heat-map grid to announce slow and busy hours. A perfect idea for the web.
As Paris morphs into the Riviera, some clever icon design works its own transformation.
Your faithful correspondent fell under the browbeating eye of authority on a few recent and essentially trivial occasions, making me think a bit about the effects of control, rule enforcement and tone in my own work.
Tons of cool historical design in the Paris subway is getting gutted.
A coffee tasting leaves a caffeine buzz and a lesson that applies to design, too: In matters of taste, subtlety is everything.
A park bench becomes a subversive design element. Every project needs one.
A neighborhood landmark gets a garish transformation, and thoughts wander to designer responsibility and online communities.
The Louvre lifts a photo ban, and visitors go insane. A small change in the rules can spark dramatic behavior shifts, not always for the better.
A new bike-sharing program in Paris suggests that a modest fee buys good behavior.
Nuit des Musées shakes up stodgy preconceptions about museums and reveals them as lively, relevant places.
The Paris Marathon prompts your correspondent to ponder what makes creative people tick in adversity.
In a promising concept that needs some refinement, YouTube DJs go head-to-head in a fight to create the best mix.
Currency may well be the most important travel interface. In that match-up, Europe wins the coin toss against the US, whose coins border on the unintelligible.
I expected nostalgic photos, but instead got insight into how technology works to spark design innovation.
The challenges of preparing this most American of meals conjures thoughts of home.