This graphic makes a visual representation of chaos as spun by contradictions in the King James Bible. White bars represent verses in the Old Testament, gray bars represent verses in the New Testament, and red arcs represent contradictions between verses (see close-up images). Beneath the graphic, the nature of the contradictions and the source of the verses are listed.
A downloadable poster is available at Project Reason.
Design Credit: Andy Marlow
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Update:
Project Reason seems to have removed what was once a downloadable poster of this work.
Here are a couple of alternatives to view the work in more detail:
The reference for Project Reason was a visualization by Chris Harrison that tracked verses from the New Testament to their origin in the Old Testament. This work by Chris Harrison has a downloadable digital file on sale at Etsy. However, Harrison’s work does not seem to focus on contradictions in the Bible, like Project Reason did, nor does it seem to list the verse cross references in a legible way.
Good news: Daniel G. Taylor has applied the data from Project Reason and made it interactive, here. You can also find a printed poster version for purchase.
Design Credit: Anne Dahlin, Australia
Nice-looking selection of product package designs.
While market research is crucial to the successful development of innovation in design, traditional market research methods such as focus groups are only part of what drives successful design solutions and successful innovation. Putting together a group of customers and conducting a focus group has its uses, but also its problems. Many spectacularly successful products did not engage in customer feedback (e.g. Apple), while some of the most extensive customer testing programs have led to some of the biggest market failures (e.g. New Coke). Why? Because customers notoriously lean toward what is conservative, safe and familiar.
One fundamental ingredient on the road to innovation, is allowing time for the design team to get immersed in the market of the given project. This allows designers to receive information by osmosis—the kind of information that depends on intuition, and feeling. By this process, designers are in a position to act on hunches and take risks on subtle levels of information—the kind of information that traditional market research is often unable to capture or measure.
Customers are equipped to comment on what they know, while designers are equipped to come up with new solutions to problems, and to influence consumer behavior. When designers are supported with time in the target consumer market, the design process is able to address customer needs from a perspective that most customers could not come to identify or verbalize.
At Google, this is built in to the environment: Google engineers are expected to spend 20% of their time at work on individual projects, in an effort to create and support an environment of innovation with market potential. For companies not quite in the ballpark of Google, or companies otherwise unable to commit to innovation to the same degree, the message is this: if you want a better shot at innovation and successful design solutions, allow time for the design team to dabble and to get immersed in the project's market.
More on this, from Michael Beverland, Professor of Marketing at the University of Bath School of Management, via the Design Management Institute, or below. Case studies and examples include: Playmobil, Apple, and the notorious consumer-input failures such as New Coke.
These old pencil nubs become a fun, colorful arrangement headed by tiny alphabetized tips, turning the seemingly mundane into the whimsical.
Credit: Nema Workshop
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Design credit: Turnstyle
Creative advertising agency Brandbase commissioned an architectural firm to come up with a solution for a temporary and open, collaborative space that was also environmentally responsible. The proposed solution applies pallets as furniture, light fixtures, and staircases—diverse applications in functionality that achieve a homogenous look with variations in form and texture.
Credit: Most Architecture, Holland
Cézar Gómez generously shares the reference material and typographic selections utilized in his design for José Cuervo's 200th anniversary commemorative label, distinctly influenced by Mexico's cactus landscapes and art heritage.
