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Some interesting patterns
Because I (Paul) am a huge nerd this newsletter often talks more about engineering and product development. Postlight is, however, just as…dedicated to design as engineering. Skyler Balbus, a Senior Designer here, offered to pull together some interesting design links. It’s awesome. Here’s the first item: ¶ Once, in design school, I had to do a project where we arranged images into a matrix, with one axis describing a semantic shift and another one describing a syntactic one. If this sounds stupidly complicated, that’s exactly how I felt about it at the time.
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Design Link Roundup
Multiplicity / Patterns / Parallels / Translations→ I’m Google by Dina Kelberman ¶ Once, in design school, I had to do a project where we arranged images into a matrix, with one axis describing a semantic shift and another one describing a syntactic one. If this sounds stupidly complicated, that’s exactly how I felt about it at the time. Now, though, I’m grateful for that exploration and the directions of thought it opened up. Kelberman has taken a similar idea — sequencing images based on loose concepts of both form and meaning — and created…
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Podcast #8: Taking it Meta
This week Paul and Rich make a podcast about making a podcast — or more specifically, about the difficulties of publishing content on…disparate platforms across the web. They discuss native advertising versus more traditional marketing, and Rich asks for clarification: “I just need to know Paul Ford hasn’t whored himself out.” Plus they answer a few listener questions and discuss how to build a team. ¶ ►iTunes/►SoundCloud/►Overcast/►Stitcher/►WWW(MP3)/►RSS ¶ Paul: The entire web has become an insane garbage heap of interlocking platforms that don’t quite talk to each other.Paul Ford3 days ago
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