“Clear” For iPhone: A To-Do List App With A UI From The Future
By John Pavlus, fastcodesign.comThis simple gestural interface breaks the usability rules of today, but may help set the ones for tomorrow.
To-do list apps are lame. Why? Because managing the system—learning how to input items, strike them out, sync them, tag them—is often…
Jessica Singh Illustration
Courtney, designworklife.comCheck out the gorgeous illustration work of Jessica Singh.
Pharmacy’s New Branding Cures The Design Blahs
BY SUZANNE LABARRE, fastcodesign.comStockholm Design Lab gives the brand ID of a Swedish pharmacy chain a big old happy pill.
Here’s something we don’t see too often: a graphic identity scheme for a pharmacy that isn’t a) antiseptic and vaguely intimidating, b) stuck i…
Lighting Up
Dwell, dwell.comA dim Toronto Tudor gets an airy new look, thanks to a top-level remodel and some bright ideas.
When Levitt Goodman Architects tackled the renovation of a turn-of- the-century Tudor-style house in Toronto, they decided to take it from th…
Sublime Shelving
Troy Turner, yankodesign.comI want this and I want it BAD! Smartsquare is a simple, beautiful and customizable shelving solution made of bent plywood (and pure genius) that takes modularity to the next level. Each square module can be connected through…
Genius Marketing: Ikea Photog Turns Kitchenware Into Art
BY SUZANNE LABARRE, fastcodesign.comDrool!
Carl Kleiner, the photographer behind Ikea’s stunning debut baking book, is up with a new promo series for the Swedish furniture giant. This time, he has turned his lens on kitchenware.
Not the world’s most exciting subject,…
Gorgeous Travel Planner Shows Times, Rather Than Distances
BY SUZANNE LABARRE, fastcodesign.comTimeMaps, by recent d-school grad Vincent Meertens, is an interactive map that reveals the only information commuters actually care about: how long it takes to get around.
Kill your maps. They’re useless. What you need, says Vincent Meertens, …
Justin Mezzell
Ethan, grainedit.comThe Florida-based illustrator and designer, Justin Mezzell, has a nice collection of work up on his site. I really dig his flat, straight-forward layouts working together with bright colors and warm textures. That topo-style map ampers…
