MetaFilter posts tagged with design and redesign

Hell, Rebranded

JimBennett — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 11:45:53 -0800

"With the help of Chris Herron Design, the Hell Office of Travel & Tourism has created a friendly and welcoming voice for destination Hell, and in so doing, has reaffirmed its mission to create an environment in which local businesses can succeed and flourish." Hell presents their new identity: Simply Heavenly ™ . Take a look at the brand new website. See Chris Herron's breakdown of the redesign process, along with dozens of logo explorations. Related: Logos for the moon. (via Brand New)

Brandon Shaeffer's Movie Posters

seanmpuckett — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 05:59:37 -0800

Graphic designer Brandon Shaeffer blends conceptualism, block graphic, op-art and deco/streamline sensibilities. His movie poster re-designs are particularly fabulous. Much more can be found in his Flickr stream and tumblr blog.

Cardon Copy

Fiasco da Gama — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:38:36 -0800

Cardon Copy takes the vernacular of self-distributed flyers and tear-offs... redesigning them, overpowering their message with a new visual language. [via]

Tabula Disastera?

_sirmissalot_ — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:48:42 -0800

". . . after 3 minutes of reading your new site my eyes started hurting and my stomach tied up in knots." "I am in misery." Slate redesigns its website once again (previous designs here and here), loyal readership freaks out. The interweb responds here and here (note the presence of at least two positive reviews; not all is lost dear Slate!)

The future of Rx?

Dome-O-Rama — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 21:23:34 -0800

Target introduces first new Rx bottles in almost 50 years. But they might be the only one for some time to do so. I have a couple in my bathroom already and as a designer I have to say they are brilliant example of thoughtful, careful design that can be extremely usable. If you are a design geek, or a wannabe, this other article is a great read about that explains the design and thought processes, as well as some prototypes, they went through with the NYC School of Visual Arts to get this new design. On page two you can see the new bottle with a detailed features list. I personally like that it wont roll off a table, better readability, and the color coded rings for each family member. One more way design makes your life easier.

The BBC's virtual monopoly must end (must it?)

feelinglistless — Mon, 06 Jan 2003 13:50:44 -0800

Is the BBCi website far too big and monopolistic? Editorial from 'The Guardian' discussing whether the BBC's website, funded by the British license fee is taking the thunder away from commercial websites worldwide trying to achieve the same results in advertising run market place. There is some logic to the argument -- when e-marketing revenues are dwingling how can some sites compete with this bohemoth? On the other hand, if they were achieving the same results people would be going to them instead, and the BBC's website is very, very good in some places, indispensible in others.

Movabletype 2.0 is released!

ejoey — Wed, 20 Mar 2002 18:11:45 -0800

Movabletype 2.0 is released!

If you crow about your redesign,

textist — Mon, 29 Oct 2001 07:26:40 -0800

If you crow about your redesign, claiming your site is now "better-looking and easier to use" (and not, say, "sludgy as Hotmail and nearly as ugly"), and you offer a graphical tour to "show you how all these slick new features work", the link to which is a 404, are you the stupidest monopoly around?

Just wondering.

Whoa! Amazon.com's

Taken Outtacontext — Wed, 26 Sep 2001 09:51:17 -0800

Whoa! Amazon.com's added a new tab to it's menubar. And it's got MY name on it!

The New York Review of Books

pracowity — Sat, 04 Aug 2001 06:18:18 -0800

The New York Review of Books site has been sensibly redesigned. You no longer have to page through essays, and there are now links to related articles from the magazine's archives.

The Standard revisited

brian — Mon, 11 Jun 2001 14:46:34 -0800

The Standard revisited The Industry Standard print magazine has launched it's new design. Check your mailboxes and discuss...

Matt has redesigned his home

grestall — Wed, 07 Feb 2001 03:50:05 -0800

Matt has redesigned his home and it's certainly not the same as before. It seems to be the season for redesigning your weblog. Lots of change is in the air, and the results are a breath of fresh air, if these sites are anything to go by. (Note too, that he's using custom coldfusion/SQL code on this box to serve his personal site.)

fraying — Thu, 25 Jan 2001 18:40:46 -0800

Two of the biggest tech news sites seem to be coming up a little short in the creativity department. ZDNet and CNet News have both been redesigned recently, and their new similarities are astounding. Worse still, they both now feature huge, ugly ads (which we're supposed to "explore") that completely overwhelm the page.

Feed redesigns.

capt.crackpipe — Mon, 11 Dec 2000 17:08:21 -0800

Feed redesigns. I can imagine the design review: “Easy on the bandwidth!”

tiaka — Sat, 02 Dec 2000 12:50:57 -0800

When you're an aiga member they send you e-mail, I usualy don't read them, because they're accouncements of conferences and such, but this one was about Chicago enlisting the help of AIGA to design new election ballots. 'Some possibilities for making Chicago ballots more user-friendly include enlarging candidates' names, changing the font size, altering the color of pages, making wider ballot booklets.' Since I couldn't find the article on-line, I'll just cut-n-paste the e-mail inside. :)

Chicago to enlist graphic designers for friendlier ballots.

dhartung — Wed, 29 Nov 2000 19:27:05 -0800

Chicago to enlist graphic designers for friendlier ballots. [free reg may be req'd] There's been a bunch of discussion about the usability problems with various voting systems, notably punch-card ballots. Chicago didn't have anything as dramatic as a "butterfly" prexy ballot or two pages' worth of candidates, but we still had close to 120,000 discards from 2.1 million votes -- and when compared with jurisdictions using other systems, there's little evidence to suggest that voters are skipping the presidential ballot. That's just how bad manual punch card technology is. Even if we can't get rid of them just yet, at least we can make sure they aren't confusing. Did I just post the twenty-sixth link on Metafilter today? GO AWAY. METAFILTER IS FULL. :)

These sliding menus

fpatrick — Fri, 28 Jul 2000 11:53:31 -0800

These sliding menus may not be anything much to you design mavens out there, but to a simple engineer/management consultant like myself, they are addictively neat. Whenever I check out the site, I find myself pulling them out and playing with them while deciding where to go in the site. How'd they do that?

Salon's Editor answers his (many) critics

Markb — Fri, 26 May 2000 04:53:21 -0800

Salon's Editor answers his (many) critics but he doesn't seem to be backing down at all.

Everything old

hijinx — Thu, 20 Apr 2000 10:04:43 -0800

Everything old is new again. I ranted on this a little in my blog, but here is the crux: why does something that looks like a Commodore 8-bit demo program earn respect as a good web design? The font is even a direct lift of the 64's built-in font. I find it kind of funny that we're trying to duplicate stuff that was done well over a decade ago, but because it's on the web, it's good design.

M-W redesigns

sylloge — Sun, 16 Apr 2000 01:48:39 -0800

M-W redesigns but doesn't actually improve the site. One curious (read: irritating) thing -- if you are currently looking at a definition (with the definition tab highlighted) and you click on the thesaurus tab, it doesn't automagically look up the same word in the thesaurus. It just gives a new search box. Dumb.

Ugh! Jakob Nielsen is at it again,

mathowie — Thu, 18 Nov 1999 11:54:16 -0800

Ugh! Jakob Nielsen is at it again, this time quantifying design conventions for the web. This quote of his stands out to me in a bad, bad way: "Therefore, I recommend following the conventions even in those cases where a different design would be better if seen in isolation." Instead of pointing out the recipie for making a boring, slightly functional site, I wish he'd stress alternatives to the emerging trends in corporate web site design.