http://sawdustandglitter.com Musings on Design, UX and Architecture by a Muse Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:34:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://sawdustandglitter.com/2010/02/unimark-international-and-the-new-york-subway-system.html http://sawdustandglitter.com/2010/02/unimark-international-and-the-new-york-subway-system.html#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:44:26 +0000 Pak-Kei Mak http://mmmak.es/blog/2010/02/unimark-international-and-the-new-york-subway-system.html I love NYC Subway signage so much I even based part of my architecture thesis project on it. The signage system is not one man’s effort, but a collaboration of designers and workers (and committee members) over time. I was at the lecture last night, on “Unimark International and the New York Subway System”, which [...]]]> http://sawdustandglitter.com/2010/02/unimark-international-and-the-new-york-subway-system.html/feed 0 http://sawdustandglitter.com/2009/12/blog-blitz-on-harlequin-project-re-cap.html http://sawdustandglitter.com/2009/12/blog-blitz-on-harlequin-project-re-cap.html#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:09:09 +0000 Pak-Kei Mak http://mmmak.es/blog/2009/12/blog-blitz-on-harlequin-project-re-cap.html http://sawdustandglitter.com/2009/12/blog-blitz-on-harlequin-project-re-cap.html/feed 2 http://sawdustandglitter.com/2009/09/fill-in-the-blanks-for-vignellis-chart.html http://sawdustandglitter.com/2009/09/fill-in-the-blanks-for-vignellis-chart.html#comments Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:57:48 +0000 Pak-Kei Mak http://blog.arkidect.com/?p=267 Massimo Vignelli seems to have an unusually high optimism for the Modern age, as he thinks that change is inevitable every 10 years. Nevertheless, this is an interesting analysis showing the progressions or cycles in styles in design (or mostly graphic design). Since Vignelli had already filled in 60’s to 80’s, so let’s fill in [...]]]> http://sawdustandglitter.com/2009/09/fill-in-the-blanks-for-vignellis-chart.html/feed 0 http://sawdustandglitter.com/2009/07/browspace-concept-for-mozilla-firefox.html http://sawdustandglitter.com/2009/07/browspace-concept-for-mozilla-firefox.html#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:11:40 +0000 Pak-Kei Mak http://blog.arkidect.com/2009/07/browspace-concept-for-mozilla-firefox.html This concept was done a while ago, but I was too lazy to blog about it. It’s a little too late since voting has already ended… but anyway, since you are reading this page, you wouldn’t mind seeing something new, right? I had been designing user interfaces for various software for a long time. Most [...]]]> http://sawdustandglitter.com/2009/07/browspace-concept-for-mozilla-firefox.html/feed 0 http://sawdustandglitter.com/2009/04/how-big-is-a-table-too-big.html http://sawdustandglitter.com/2009/04/how-big-is-a-table-too-big.html#comments Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:49:30 +0000 Pak-Kei Mak http://blog.arkidect.com/2009/04/how-big-is-a-table-too-big.html http://sawdustandglitter.com/2009/04/how-big-is-a-table-too-big.html/feed 0 http://sawdustandglitter.com/2009/03/32x32-is-the-new-16x16.html http://sawdustandglitter.com/2009/03/32x32-is-the-new-16x16.html#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:36:38 +0000 Pak-Kei Mak http://blog.arkidect.com/2009/03/32x32-is-the-new-16x16.html http://sawdustandglitter.com/2009/03/32x32-is-the-new-16x16.html/feed 0 http://sawdustandglitter.com/2009/01/office-14-and-%e2%80%9cscenic%e2%80%9d-one-small-change-can-destroy-the-ribbon.html http://sawdustandglitter.com/2009/01/office-14-and-%e2%80%9cscenic%e2%80%9d-one-small-change-can-destroy-the-ribbon.html#comments Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:20:00 +0000 Pak-Kei Mak http://arkidect.net/blog/?p=45 http://sawdustandglitter.com/2009/01/office-14-and-%e2%80%9cscenic%e2%80%9d-one-small-change-can-destroy-the-ribbon.html/feed 3 http://sawdustandglitter.com/2009/01/future-systems-jan-kaplicky-dead-at-71.html http://sawdustandglitter.com/2009/01/future-systems-jan-kaplicky-dead-at-71.html#comments Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:21:00 +0000 Pak-Kei Mak http://arkidect.net/blog/?p=44 http://sawdustandglitter.com/2009/01/future-systems-jan-kaplicky-dead-at-71.html/feed 0 http://sawdustandglitter.com/2008/06/256-new-pixels-for-a-greasemonkey-logo.html http://sawdustandglitter.com/2008/06/256-new-pixels-for-a-greasemonkey-logo.html#comments Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:45:00 +0000 Pak-Kei Mak http://arkidect.net/blog/?p=42 http://sawdustandglitter.com/2008/06/256-new-pixels-for-a-greasemonkey-logo.html/feed 4 http://sawdustandglitter.com/2008/04/delightful-new-r160a-trains.html http://sawdustandglitter.com/2008/04/delightful-new-r160a-trains.html#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:50:00 +0000 Pak-Kei Mak http://arkidect.net/blog/?p=41 http://sawdustandglitter.com/2008/04/delightful-new-r160a-trains.html/feed 1