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Icon is as icon does
Sometimes you think you’ve seen and heard it all as a designer… but then something or someone comes along and effortlessly surprises you with their sheer stupidity, ignorance, or bizarre belief...
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No Guides, No Vision
(or Climbing Aboard the Corporate Abacus) Design is, what you might call, “a funny old game“. Designers are full of ideas and influences and bursting to try them out on projects large and small. But...
View ArticleDon’t Call Us Busy Idiots
(Or “The Lonesome Cubicle Of Excel”) Have you ever worked in, visited or generally hung around a bustling design studio? They are wonderful places. Full of activity; full of possibilities; full of...
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Apple Watching
Apple prides itself on the elegance and simplicity of its designs and user interfaces. Most of its products from the last 15 years have defined both the industries they compete in and the chapters on...
View ArticleBeware the Vanity Designer
We’ve all seen the Dilbert-esque jokes about how a presentation or a logo could be put together in Word by the boss’s 10 year old nephew… but the problem for designers in small or medium sized...
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Firewalled
It’s 2012, going on 2013, and there are STILL companies running (and even introducing) big dumb firewalls that cut off half the internet to their employees. Like a song with a bizarre filter that cuts...
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Keep on keeping on
Stooged I can’t be alone in finding myself in a dull, mundane, corporate stooge job. It’s that kind of job where you realise that your skills, knowledge and training count for nothing (as no one...
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An Apple TV Cabinet
Following on from the thought of an Apple TV App (instead of a piece of hardware), I thought I would mock-up a very quick idea of how a news-stand type TV app grouping could work. The whole concept of...
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Iconic
The more I look at those new iOS7 icons, the better they become. They may look “odd” to some (and downright confusing or juvenile to a few of the more superficial commentators), but they are extremely...
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Qualified?
The most annoying thing about the iOS design discussion has been the willingness of intelligent, insightful commentators to say that they are “not designers”. They think their opinion on a design can’t...
View ArticleIs big data just a big failure for the end user?
There’s a lot of talk about big data and how it will help bring in a new dawn of technology that learns and recognizes our needs before we know them ourselves. Isn’t this the truest form of empowerment...
View ArticleWelcome…
…to some thinking about design, technology, trees… and tea. The day job for aTantalus involves everything from designing a quick logo to putting together finely wrought websites or sales brochures...
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The new site…
Big changes are a-foot for aTantalus and GAS Designs! In an effort to modernize and bring together several different sites for ‘the day job’ ,we’re making aTantalus the starting point for all the...
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Not Quite Good Enough
Technology and Design are funny old games! Design (both in-print and online) is usually about working up an idea until someone signs it off… …and you would expect to find that it ONLY goes live when...
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Welcome to the almost future…
For more years than I care to remember, the tools and processes for design have remained pretty much the same. It might go something like this: You get the project / idea. Go and sit at your desk and...
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