This Airport Ditches Walkways For A Running Track
In preparation for the 2020 Olympics, Tokyo’s main airport now features Muji decor and color-coded navigation.
A design solution that improves the commuting experience for both cyclists and drivers. Safer roads means happier commuters.
“Why do we assume that simple is good? Because with physical products, we have to feel we can dominate them. As you bring order to complexity, you find a way to make the product defer to you. Simplicity isn’t just a visual style. It’s not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of the complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep. For example, to have no screws on something, you can end up having a product that is so convoluted and so complex. The better way is to go deeper with the simplicity, to understand everything about it and how it’s manufactured. You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.”
Jonathan Ive
This is simply brilliant. Good design don’t have to be all fanciful but it has to work like magic for not just designers but non-designers as well.
It seems to me that many designers these days don’t really know how to use the grid. They are already breaking it before they know how to use it.
Here’s a quick crash course on how to use the grid.
I think these can also be guidelines for choosing a corporate font.
We like fonts where:
- 0 cannot be confused with O
- punctuation characters like “,” are bigger because they are far more important in programming than in daily use
- Brackets are distinct
- 1 I | and l cannot be confused (that is 1, i, L, and the pipe sign)
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