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8 November 2010

Noteworthy improvements

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While I think of cars with pretty staggering regularity, I very rarely pay much attention to those from South Korea (which have always seemed like half-baked knock-offs of Japanese cars.) Recently, though, I’ve noticed my eyes drifting towards Kia’s offerings as they roll past and I had to ask myself: what the hell is going on here?


The Kia C’eed, Top Gear’s reasonably priced car from last season.

Well, the answer turns out to be something I already knew but had completely forgotten: Peter Schreyer is the chief of design for Kia. And his former job? Lead designer for Audi and VW.

I knew those crisp, clean lines looked familiar!

Undesigned Web

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The Undesigned Web will facilitate critical thinking, sharing information and disseminating knowledge more widely than has ever been previously possible. That’s because it will be easier than ever to separate content from the, ahem, bullshit with which it is frequently cloaked.

Wired reposted an Atlantic article on the supposed death of design in the modern age of gadgets like the iPad, Kindle, etc and software like Instapaper. While the old notions of print and web design are certainly fading away, the essay goes on to clarify that its more of a shift from Design to design (emphasis on the capital) or even a push for undesigned content.

The thinking is that as we move from reading on fixed devices to reading on multiple, reconfigurable devices, content will have to be ever easier to re-contextualize and repackage to suit the given gadget or app.  A very keen observation and entirely true: as anyone who has ever used Flipboard knows all too well, even a mundane Facebook post looks better when gussied up as a digital magazine piece.