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Usability is dead….the write up
A title as loaded as Usability is Dead needs some sort of explanation that a presentation can’t really convey. KForum – a Danish site serving all those involved in communication, gave me an oppo… more →
User Pathways
The UPC is 35 today
Richard Shear wrote 1 week ago: On the morning of June 26, 1974 a UPC symbol, on the back of a 10-pack of Juicy Fruit gum, was scann … more →
The package, as social media
Richard Shear wrote 1 week ago: One image of social business design from Dachis Group In the old days a package was expected to do l … more →
Usability is dead….the write up
James Kelway wrote 1 week ago: A title as loaded as Usability is Dead needs some sort of explanation that a presentation can’t real … more →
Dummies for package design
Richard Shear wrote 1 week ago: Edward Rothstein/The New York Times There was a piece in the New York Times over the weekend about t … more →
Thinking outside the boxed wine
Richard Shear wrote 2 weeks ago: Boxed wine has historically had a bad rap. But better product and better packaging may be changing t … more →
Usability is dead…
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James Kelway wrote 2 weeks ago: On Wednesday (17 June), I attended the SIGCHI Interaction Design Day at Copenhagen’s ITU. It’s an im … more →
Crowdsourced Creativity, continued
Richard Shear wrote 2 weeks ago: I posted some thoughts about crowd sourced creativity on April 10th, and mentioned all of the reason … more →
Pixar's tens of thousands of ideas
Richard Shear wrote 2 weeks ago: Just finished an amazing piece, in the Harvard Business Review written by Ed Catmull, the President … more →
Peter Max, paleoartists, and package design
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Richard Shear wrote 3 weeks ago: I got an acetylene torch for my high school graduation present, and went off to art school intending … more →
Work on spec, just say no!
Richard Shear wrote 3 weeks ago: The design community seems to be getting increasingly vocal in its opposition to work on spec, and i … more →
Who writes cultural history
Richard Shear wrote 1 month ago: There is an interesting article in the Sunday New York Times, by Holland Cotter. It asks, through a … more →
Research in the round
Richard Shear wrote 1 month ago: Package design research continues to be a bit complicated, and I am not sure it has gotten any less … more →
ICFF, Ellen Lupton, brand loyalty, and ModKat
Richard Shear wrote 1 month ago: In continuing to read coverage of the ICFF in New York this week I happened upon the New York Times … more →
Evolution has some lessons for Product Design (from Fast Company)
cusp development wrote 1 month ago: The first in a series of entries on the role and nature of function in Design. “Evolution” (text … more →
The Dipylon Wine Jug, the first package with a message
Richard Shear wrote 1 month ago: While reading Sailing The Wine Dark Sea this weekend, Thomas Cahill’s survey on the historical … more →
Hubble and The Guggenheim, two great packages
Richard Shear wrote 1 month ago: The juxtaposition of these two images got me thinking. Today there are a couple of completely unrela … more →
PET, a greener spirits package
Richard Shear wrote 1 month ago: PET plastic bottles, even the 100% post consumer recycled variety, are being considered more serious … more →
Coke, Budweiser and brand heritage
Richard Shear wrote 1 month ago: This image, which contrasts packages from the early 20th and early 21st centuries, clearly shows how … more →
Package Design, a leading or trailing indicator, 1930-1940
Richard Shear wrote 1 month ago: This is the fourth in our series of short pieces on highlights in the package design history of the … more →
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