Summer break for design

With a recent Sooy + Co. move to new office space, it's time for this site to take a rest. Perhaps for the summer, perhaps longer, but with boxes to unpack, projects to finish and little time for writing, it's time for a break.

Thanks for reading. The best of this site will most likely be re-published under another name at some point (since there are many more and more insightful Design Matters blogs, especially Debbie Millman's.

Thank you for reading, for commenting, and for continuing to practice in the best profession in the world, graphic design.

I still can't believe we get paid for doing what we love so much.

Coffee Table computing

This could change the way designers work... when Apple comes out with one. Perhaps it will be named iTable?

At this time, it's from Microsoft...

Why doesn't Microsoft get it?

OK, I can't take it any more. Doesn't Microsoft get it, what is up with their software?

What I mean is, why can't I export the email addresses from a category or group from Macintosh Entourage? It exports every email address ever used.

Why don't the filters work properly?

Why can't I add an intro to an email that I'm redirecting?

Why has it taken so long to create an Intel version of Entourage?

Are my expectations too high?

Designer vs. Entrepreneur

A recent photo in a magazine had the titles of the individuals listed as "engineer" and "entrepreneur." But is that how they view themselves?

Being labeled as an entrepreneur is how someone else thinks of an individual (similar to branding: it's not what you think of your company, it's what others think of you.)

As a designer, has it occurred to you that you're en entrepreneur? There's so much buzz around the concept that it's easy to lose perspective on it.

"In the future, everyone will enjoy 15 minutes of entrepreneurship." Entrepreneurship will become a commodity, and we'll have to invent a new word for what it is we do.

A key similarity between designers and entrepreneurship is in how we think. Essentially, an entrepreneur identifies a problem and solves it, as do designers. Both are willing to challenge the status quo, affect change, take huge risks... we want to change the world.

If the future, I'll think of myself as a designer. But I'll continue to think like an entrepreneur.

How about you? Ready to change the world?

corporate identity: separated at birth

BSCO Design Matters can't be the first to have noticed the similarities between the at&t logo, and the New Citizens Bank logo:





Comments? It's not very imaginative, is it? Perhaps it's time to introduce a bell...

Saul Bass, are you watching?