http://sawdustandglitter.com Musings on Design, UX and Architecture by a Muse Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:34:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://sawdustandglitter.com/2010/07/bad-design-good-design.html http://sawdustandglitter.com/2010/07/bad-design-good-design.html#comments Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:30:20 +0000 Pak-Kei Mak http://sawdustandglitter.com/?p=402 Bill Moggridge at National Design Museum recently wrote an article about what bad and good design is, and to illustrate his point, he used the often confusing TV remote control as the bad example, and the iPhone 4 as the good example. Well, I beg to differ. Out of the 3 things in the article, [...]]]> http://sawdustandglitter.com/2010/07/bad-design-good-design.html/feed 0 http://sawdustandglitter.com/2010/03/the-wonderneath-is-on.html http://sawdustandglitter.com/2010/03/the-wonderneath-is-on.html#comments Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:43:28 +0000 Pak-Kei Mak http://sawdustandglitter.com/?p=327 The latest show at the House of Yes in Brooklyn, “The Wonderneath”, is now showing! The early Modern day fairy tale summarizes the journey of Hailey down to the secret underground of New York City in the 1910’s, with wonderful musical numbers and spectacular circus acts. I’m doing part of the set design for the [...]]]> http://sawdustandglitter.com/2010/03/the-wonderneath-is-on.html/feed 0 http://sawdustandglitter.com/2010/02/the-wonderneath.html http://sawdustandglitter.com/2010/02/the-wonderneath.html#comments Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:45:02 +0000 Pak-Kei Mak http://mmmak.es/blog/2010/02/the-wonderneath.html I am working on some spanking new set design for the newest show at House of Yes in Brooklyn called “The Wonderneath”! Design cues come from art nouveau movement a hundred years ago. Here is a work in progress for the rotunda platform… More to come. Stay tuned!]]> http://sawdustandglitter.com/2010/02/the-wonderneath.html/feed 0 http://sawdustandglitter.com/2010/02/unimark-international-and-the-new-york-subway-system.html http://sawdustandglitter.com/2010/02/unimark-international-and-the-new-york-subway-system.html#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:44:26 +0000 Pak-Kei Mak http://mmmak.es/blog/2010/02/unimark-international-and-the-new-york-subway-system.html I love NYC Subway signage so much I even based part of my architecture thesis project on it. The signage system is not one man’s effort, but a collaboration of designers and workers (and committee members) over time. I was at the lecture last night, on “Unimark International and the New York Subway System”, which [...]]]> http://sawdustandglitter.com/2010/02/unimark-international-and-the-new-york-subway-system.html/feed 0 http://sawdustandglitter.com/2009/12/blog-blitz-on-harlequin-project-re-cap.html http://sawdustandglitter.com/2009/12/blog-blitz-on-harlequin-project-re-cap.html#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:09:09 +0000 Pak-Kei Mak http://mmmak.es/blog/2009/12/blog-blitz-on-harlequin-project-re-cap.html http://sawdustandglitter.com/2009/12/blog-blitz-on-harlequin-project-re-cap.html/feed 2 http://sawdustandglitter.com/2009/09/fill-in-the-blanks-for-vignellis-chart.html http://sawdustandglitter.com/2009/09/fill-in-the-blanks-for-vignellis-chart.html#comments Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:57:48 +0000 Pak-Kei Mak http://blog.arkidect.com/?p=267 Massimo Vignelli seems to have an unusually high optimism for the Modern age, as he thinks that change is inevitable every 10 years. Nevertheless, this is an interesting analysis showing the progressions or cycles in styles in design (or mostly graphic design). Since Vignelli had already filled in 60’s to 80’s, so let’s fill in [...]]]> http://sawdustandglitter.com/2009/09/fill-in-the-blanks-for-vignellis-chart.html/feed 0 http://sawdustandglitter.com/2009/07/browspace-concept-for-mozilla-firefox.html http://sawdustandglitter.com/2009/07/browspace-concept-for-mozilla-firefox.html#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:11:40 +0000 Pak-Kei Mak http://blog.arkidect.com/2009/07/browspace-concept-for-mozilla-firefox.html This concept was done a while ago, but I was too lazy to blog about it. It’s a little too late since voting has already ended… but anyway, since you are reading this page, you wouldn’t mind seeing something new, right? I had been designing user interfaces for various software for a long time. Most [...]]]> http://sawdustandglitter.com/2009/07/browspace-concept-for-mozilla-firefox.html/feed 0 http://sawdustandglitter.com/2009/06/the-decemberists-at-radio-city-music-hall.html http://sawdustandglitter.com/2009/06/the-decemberists-at-radio-city-music-hall.html#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:56:12 +0000 Pak-Kei Mak http://blog.arkidect.com/2009/06/the-decemberists-at-radio-city-music-hall.html http://sawdustandglitter.com/2009/06/the-decemberists-at-radio-city-music-hall.html/feed 0 http://sawdustandglitter.com/2009/05/four-types-of-circus.html http://sawdustandglitter.com/2009/05/four-types-of-circus.html#comments Sat, 23 May 2009 07:35:22 +0000 Pak-Kei Mak http://blog.arkidect.com/2009/05/four-types-of-circus.html http://sawdustandglitter.com/2009/05/four-types-of-circus.html/feed 0 http://sawdustandglitter.com/2009/04/how-big-is-a-table-too-big.html http://sawdustandglitter.com/2009/04/how-big-is-a-table-too-big.html#comments Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:49:30 +0000 Pak-Kei Mak http://blog.arkidect.com/2009/04/how-big-is-a-table-too-big.html http://sawdustandglitter.com/2009/04/how-big-is-a-table-too-big.html/feed 0