“I love systems and despise happenstance. I love ambiguity because, for me, ambiguity means plurality of meanings. I love contradiction because it keeps things moving, preventing them from assuming a frozen meaning, or becoming a monument to immobility. As much as I love things in flux, I love them within a frame of reference - a consistent reassurance that at least and at last I am the one responsible for every detail. And that is why I love Design.” Massimo Vignelli: The Design Canon [pdf] Definitely worth reading. [via: Design Observer]

Otl Aicher: Official Report for the Munich Olympics 1972 and Otl Aicher flickr pool [via: smogr]

“The ‘wish we’d done that’ projects of the year” by Johnson Banks. CultureBus (Pentagram) along with Omroep voor Kunst en Cultuur (Dunbar) and Alliance for Climate Protection (Brian Collins) listed best in logo design.

Absolutely no relation to id/design/webdesign, but it’s just brilliant: Hockey mom and piano playing moose .

Please recommend a book that you have found particularly inspiring or meaningful to your development as a creative person? Outstanding graphic designers and their reading list: Inspired reading.

Images of Airport Signage from cities all over the world, using the photo website flickr: A showcase of airport signage designs and wayfinding systems.

I have devoted 30 years of research to how creative people live and work, to make more understandable the mysterious process by which they come up with new ideas and new things. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: The Creative Personality: Ten paradoxical traits of the creative personality.

Constant setting is a simple website that displays in real time, any sunset images taken and posted to Flickr as creative commons that correspond to the cities where the sun is setting at the moment. One might say it’s kind of entirely useless, but it’s one of the most creative projects using flickr I’ve seen in the recent months. However truistic it may sound, we’re getting global. And unpretentious.

When applying this ever-wider embrace to green products and services, the shift looks somewhat like this: we’ve gone from ECO-UGLY (ugly, over-priced, low-performance, unsavory yet eco-friendly versions of the ‘real thing’) to ECO-CHIC (eco-friendly stuff that actually looks as nice and cool as the less sustainable originals) to now ECO-ICONIC. Two briefings from trendwatching.com: How brands from around the world are already making the most of ECO-ICONIC trend and New ways the offline world is making the most of the online steamroller.

If you can see the interface as the brand, the brand being the interface: You might understand the success of modern branding concepts: The Interface of a Cheeseburger.