Okay, this kind of needs to be seen to be believed, but this is apparently the world’s smallest website, including a whole range of entirely playable games all in a single square centimetre.
(with thanks to Greenthing, source of many good things)
Category Archives: design
Design for the other 90%
Here’s a great exhibition that’s on in New York at the moment, that I sadly am only getting to read about – “The majority of the world’s designers focus all their efforts on developing products and services exclusively for the richest 10% of the world’s customers. Nothing less than a revolution in design is needed to reach the other 90%.”
Among the genius ideas are the Q drum, a rolling water carrier that will save the backs of those having to haul water over long distances.
And this pick-up version of the classic carry-all African black bicycle. If you’ve ever seen the way a Kenyan can fit his entire family on a single bike and then weave through traffic, you’ll appreciate how practical, simple and necessary innovations like these are.
Check out more details of design for the other 90% here. There will always be more toys for rich people, but this is the real cutting edge of design.
bar code art
I came across the Art Lebedev the other day, an anarchic Russian design collective with a nice anti-capitalist streak. Their logo is a bar code, and they find all sorts of ways of sneaking it in to places, which makes an interesting statement about commodification.
These and dozens of others are in their little online gallery here.
Jeremy Williams 