Love the simple grid view and ability to quickly jump in to info on the various captivating images.

Quoted: IDEA: Design Award Winners, 2008

Nice collection of infographics.

Quoted: Data presentation can be beautiful, elegant and descriptive. There is a variety of conventional ways to visualize data - tables, histograms, pie charts bar graphs are being used every day, in project on possible occasion.

Nuff said...

Quoted: Secret 1: Engineering supports design -- no exceptions.

Quoted: Most companies bring designers in late in the product development process to create an experience "wrapper" around all the features and technologies the engineers and marketing people created. At Apple, designers rule. Apple's brilliant designers figure

I especially like the 'breathing room' statement...

Quoted: Stop worrying about the fold. Don’t throw your best practices out the window, but stop cramming stuff above a certain pixel point. You’re not helping anyone. Open up your designs and give your users some visual breathing room. If your content is compelling enough your users will read it to the end.

I remember seeing this years ago in Popular Science as a 'fantasy'. Amazing it's actually getting done. I know where I'm retiring to...

Quoted: For those of you who haven't heard of The World, it's an enormous project going on in Dubai. Where they will construct islands, that as a whole will resemble the different parts of our planet.

Quoted: We seem to say this every time Dubai announces a crazy engineering endeavor, but as soon as we're done learning Arabic we are so moving there. It's like they ask the coolest 5-year-old what kind of buildings they like, and then build them.– Benjamin Longo

Very cool, creative...

Quoted: In the charming “Playground Fence”, not only are the protrusions and recessions of the fence eye-catching, but they allow for a more active interaction between those on either sides of the fence, providing seats, benches, nooks and playspaces for children.

Hilarious... it's worth the time watching that video.

My favorite quote: Design is just problem solving. Sometimes the client brings a project where there is no problem to solve, so I make one.

A hilarious post, painting likenesses between Design and the Sopranos...

Quoted: For reasons too complicated to explain here — aside from the obvious point that they sound somewhat alike — the design equivalent to disrespecting the Bing is doing spec work.

Quoted: By his own admission, Howard Schultz was inspired by the coffee houses of Venice and Milan when he created his own little version in Seattle. The designers of the graphical use interface at Apple were influenced by work developed at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. And some people think that the Flintstones are just the Honeymooners except set in the Stone Age. Imitation, influence, and iteration are crucial to design development. The only requirement is that the goal is transformation, not replication.

Quoted: On The Sopranos, interest in certain things, including but not limited to event planning, fashion design, literature, and certain psychological theories, are considered indications of effeminacy.