Meyer, Miller, Smith.

Next Talk about the Weather: October 5th

Fri, 3 Sep 2010 18:21:08 +0200

This month we have no weather to talk about. We will continue the series Tuesday, 5th of October.

Cadbury’s – The Tumble Machine

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:09:24 +0200

via 10and5.com. Created by Promise Brand Specialists, Johannesburg.

Little Big Berlin

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:09:39 +0200

Just stumbled over the following video made by Pilpop. Watch the second one as well. Hint: Watch in full screen resolution...

Little Big Berlin from pilpop on Vimeo.

Glidecam - Berlin Calling from pilpop on Vimeo.

Vodafone social network Boost

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:54:06 +0200

Together with scholz&friends we developed this Flash application for vodafone. The program reads out social network information from facebook and gives you interesting facts about your social network behavior, most popular posts by your friends, etc.

Boost it here!

Floor Plan Atlas of Medieval Monasteries

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:36:42 +0200

Book design for an atlas showcasing floor plans of 80 cistercian monasteries. Floorplans and text by Jürgen Eberle. The book is going to be released in the end of 2010.

Our focus lay on the design of the floor plans making them more accessible to a broader audience by adding perspective, extruding the flat floor plans and changing the perspective to birds eye.

Roadstories Corporate Design

Sun, 8 Aug 2010 17:36:03 +0200

This was the first time we ordered business cards through moo.com and we where really pleased with the result. The print quality was superb and the cards come in those beautiful boxes. Nice when a company pays so much attention to detail.

Design for production company and Meyer, Miller, Smith. partner company "Roadstories" which specializes on communication around cars.

The Blog of the newly established company can be found here: http://www.meyermillersmith.com/roadstories/

Falling Walls Conference 2010

Thu, 5 Aug 2010 10:50:58 +0200

Following the success of last year's Falling Walls conference, it is now planned to hold the event annually, the next one taking place on 7th and 8th of November, at Berlin Radialsystem arts centre.

Supported by many research institutions such as the Fraunhofer Institute, the Charité, or the Berlin Universities, Falling Walls is set to become a premier showcase for forward thinking research and ideas.

Last year's speeches have been made available online here, and for this year's event you can register for tickets here to receive an early bird discount.

We are proud to support the event, with a site built using our proprietary Figaro website kit, as well as the design of the CI and the production of all communication materials.

In case you don't have a fucking Social Media Strategy

Tue, 3 Aug 2010 12:51:40 +0200

Try out this magic website to get a custom generated one. http://whatthefuckismysocialmediastrategy.com/

Talk about the Weather, Tuesday, August 3rd

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:47:58 +0200

Melbourne, from The Urban Topography Collection

The architect-artists Trinh Buscher will be talking about The Urban Topography Collection, an ongoing effort and the first stage to the Metropolitan Cityscapes platform.

The series explores the concept of space re-imagined through spatial memory and comparison.

www.metropolitan-cityscapes.com

Maybe leave the golf clubs home?

Hendrik Lakeberg is talking about the challenge of launching the german intersection magazine.

http://www.intersection-magazin.de/

Drawing Audio Data with Motor Oil

The artist Nils Voelker will talk about his robot which turns motor sounds into art. The project is also part of a touring exhibition across several european cities Smart Urban Stage

http://www.nilsvoelker.com/

Intelligent Mobile Phone Manual

Tue, 6 Jul 2010 10:11:25 +0200

Out of the box - book from adrian333 on Vimeo.

Helvetica Rant

Thu, 1 Jul 2010 13:08:26 +0200

I just received an e-mail from Daniel Nacamuli with a transcript of a type forum conversation about Helvetica. And it needed some kind of illustration.... Enjoy!

Some of you might like to read this, it’s taken from a conversation we having on a forum. (Robin this is the guy who was my typography mentor back when we were in whitechapel).

Oh OK THEN.

--more--

Comic Sans is the non-typographer’s type rant. It’s like starting a conversation about how “Arsenal always try to walk it into the net, don’t they”, or whatever. It’s banal. It just crops up all the time because the layman can easily distinguish between Comic Sans and a “normal” typeface.

The Helvetica thing is really funny because it’s so very Emperor’s new clothes.

Pete is quite right to note that designers who read - and all genuinely good designers read, which is about 1% of them - dislike Helvetica for body copy. It’s a staggeringly poor text font, especially Helvetica Neue and the other digital versions. The reason it’s so popular is that it looks great when you look at it close-up, or very large.

It’s tremendously rationalised in its form (again, especially Neue), and designers like that because they see it as an incarnation of what they consider their job to be; never mind that all good body typefaces reveal their quirks, quirks that are there to aid readability, when you examine the details.

Helvetica was based very closely on the Grotesks of the 1880s - it’s nowhere near as new as people think it is - but it systematically eradicated any and all of the details that made those typefaces hang together. There’s a very subtle, cumulative quality in a typeface that makes letters form word shapes (which is what people read) that just isn’t there in Helvetica.

The digitisation of Helvetica, when that happened, only made matters worse, as did Neue. Neue really eradicated pretty much any individual detail that didn’t rigidly fit a narrow set of rules. (There are some old Italian copies of Helvetica that you used to be able to find that are near-identical to the untrained eye, but so much better to read.)

The modern obsession with Helvetica is partly due to the po-mo revivalists, many of whom studied under the Swiss post-war modernists. You could include 8vo, Brody, David James and others in that. 8vo in particular were protégés of Wolfgang Weingart. If you check out Weingart’s posters from the period when photo-typography was the contemporary technical revolution, you can see where that lot got it all from. Especially the Designers Republic, who are responsible for a lot of the current late 20s /early 30s designers’ obsession with Helvetica.

Essentially what happened was type started to be used decoratively, as part of an image-making process. And Helvetica is GREAT for that, because it looks really good when it’s blown up really large.

The best Helvetica I ever saw was 3-metre high orange numerals on the side of a set of warehouses. The numerals are superb, I’ll give it that.

With Helvy, bigger is better. For body type it’s a stupid, ignorant choice. The oblique weights - in fact, anything other than Regular and Bold (55 and 75 in Neue code) - are terrible.

If you want a modernist sans-serif typeface that’s expertly designed and digitised and suitable for a wide range of applications, choose Univers.

The End.

Thank to David Nacamuli for the dialogue.

A cool time for start-ups!

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:05:22 +0200

MDC Partners, the Toronto based holding company which owns agencies like Crispin Porter & Bogusky and Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal & Partners just announced in a New York Times interview that its about to launch a business plan competition for entrepreneurs in the marketing arena.

At least one team entering a business idea will be chosen until the end of october 2010 and rewarded with a 1$ investment in exchange for 51% of their shares.

What a great opportunity for both sides!

read the whole article here

Talk about the Weather , Tuesday, July 13th

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:00:23 +0200

Roger Ibars will be presenting his new project titled "HWD corporation", a new collection of hard-wired devices, featuring 100 different joysticks from the last 30 years of computer and video games culture.

www.rogeribars.com

Susanna Hertrich, artist and designer living in Berlin will be presenting a selection of her works dealing with »poetics of the uncanny«.

www.susannahertrich.com

Jump back in time with HTML5

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:19:07 +0200

Soapbox Racer is the Checkers of 2010, in this HTML5 vs Flash Showcase.

We are presenting the "Table Berlin" on DMY 2010

Tue, 8 Jun 2010 13:37:18 +0200

Why not visit our stand in Tempelhof airport /Hangar 5 between the 9th and 13th this month?! Public opening is on wednesday, the 9th at 20.00pm. We are looking forward to meeting you in one of the greatest airports in this world.

Further information about DMY here: DMY Website

All information about our "Table Berlin" here: