WTHR

Dieter Rams' "10 Principles" forecast the weather in a new iPhone app

Taking a cue from Dieter Rams’ legendary “10 Principles of Good Design“, Miami-based designer David Elgena recently created a beautifully simple weather app. The aptly titled WTHR iPhone app may not be the most innovative with its ultra simple interface, but it certainly looks to a few other principles—namely good design is aesthetic, useful, unobtrusive and understandable. Using little more than simple line art icons, …

Paper Typography

Hand-cut lettering by Australian artist Bianca Chang

By Nestor Bailly Transforming stacks of paper into something beautiful, Australian designer and paper artist Bianca Chang hand-cuts typographic designs into thick chunks of blank sheets. As she films the process in stop-motion, beautiful patterns emerge in a simple but quite fascinating story of each letter’s creation. Inspired by tone-on-tone signage and the shadow play of three-dimensional letterforms, the paper sculptures manipulate the medium’s unique …

Partisans

Young architects seek to shake up design norms from Mecca to your living room

Alex Josephson, Pooya Baktash and their fellow architects at Toronto-based Partisans are engaging in architectural guerrilla warfare. They want your attention and, most likely, they’ll get it as they poke, prod, shock and awe you into changing the way you see the world, or at least its buildings. “Everyone at Partisans is young. The average age is 26,” says Josephson. “The idea was to graduate …