Reprocessed, by Matt Patterson

Something approaching a weblog

February 2005

11.2.2005

Web design tools are skeuomorphs of print design tools, and this is a bad thing.

I've recently been re-reading (actually, reading from start to finish for the first time) Philip 'Vermeer's Camera' Steadman's The Evolution of Designs. The book is about biological analogy in design, focussing on architecture and industrial design. At work I've been gazing into the content production and management abyss, and I've been doing more thinking about web design. This post is the collision between those things, and some of the earlier thinking I did for my dissertation (which I'll try to get around to properly putting up on the site, with its images).

18.2.2005

The Unconsoled

I've just finished reading Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled. The overwhelming sensation I had while reading the book was discomfort: I was torn between wanting to just keep reading, to not put the book down, and to put the book down right now and read something else, never to return to it.

24.2.2005

Hans Schmoller: the Penguin years

The St Bride printling library held an exhibition of the typographer Hans Schmoller's work at Penguin books, where he was the chief designer for most of the latter half of the twentieth century. Curated by David Pearson, the exhibition presented layouts, proofs and finished designs (i.e. the books themselves).

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