Interaction Design for a Connected World

Connecting is an 18-minute documentary by Bassett & Partners exploring the future of Interaction Design on our devices and the world of tomorrow.

Ultimately, when the digital and physical worlds become one, humans along with technology are potentially on the path to becoming a "super organism" capable of influencing and enabling a broad spectrum of new behaviors in the world.

Skeuomorphism, contextual information, social synergy. Despite the abundance of buzzwords on this video - there’s no denying that Natural User Interfaces is the future (and was, even before the iPhone touch-screen devices started it)

Graphika Manila and Visual Design Conference happens on February 9

Graphika Manila 2013 is now being held this February instead of the usual last quarter of the year to address concerns on weather, speakers availability and student schedule. The conference this year will now be held at the PICC Plenary hall instead on SMX halls.

Speakers this year: Benjamin Seide from Pixomondo, Jessica Walsh, Armand Serrano from Sony Pictures Animation, Benja Harney, James White from Signalnoise, Ryan Honey from Buck, Koto and Shin from Devil Robots.

Ticket prices are: ₱1,750 (early bird) ₱1,950 (regular) ₱1,550 (students)

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Visual Design also goes down on February 9th for our Southern friends. Venue will be on SM Cinema 2, SM City Cebu.

Speakers this year: Alduane Mano, Charles Buenconsejo, Dan Matutina, Dan Frasco, Dwyn Traza, Gem Ronn Cadiz, and Harvey Tolibao.

Ticket prizes are: ₱400 (early bird) ₱500 (regular) ₱450 (students early bird) ₱450 (students regular)

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Shakey’s New Logo: Ye Olde Pizza Parlor Tries Retro

Shakey’s has been operating in the Philippines for so long that you’d mistakenly think they are a home-grown franchise. They actually started in the Sacramento California in 1954 and was known for their pizza, beer and jazz mix offerings.

Shakey’s began to expand outside the United States with the opening of a restaurant in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada on February 15, 1968. Expansion then went south with the opening of Mexico City restaurant on May 7, 1968. The first Japanese restaurant opened in Osaka, Japan on July 26, 1976. Expansion continued with a restaurant in Makati, Philippines in 1975.

Shakey’s branches in the Philippines at one point outnumbered even those in the USA. It’s like saying Jollibee has more branches in the USA than the Philippines. A big feat and shows that Filipinos really love eating American food ever since (even Wonder Woman came to eat here)

This new logo was adopted by Shakey’s USA first and is just presently being rolled into new Shakey’s branches in the country (saw a new branch being constructed along Shaw-Sta.Mesa route). The old Shakey’s western typeface and the red hat-like border are one of those things that you could just glance and instantly recognize. It didn’t look too-polished but the brand suited its ‘good-old’ pizza parlor feel.

The new logo removes any traces of the old one and introduces a slabby typeface that actually looks like it’s shaking. The ‘Established in 1954’ badge is somewhat an opposite from the typeface it represents below. It now actually looks like the old Popeyes Chicken logo at first glance.

The iconic red backdrop and the hat-like border was changed to a black and yellow oblong-shaped container. While dropping the tested shapes was risky, The circular shape and dark colors might also work and is also reminiscent of retro jukebox and neon stylings from the 70’s.

I also don’t think the thin strokes used throughout the logo especially the Shakey’s word works best. They could have filled up the gaps between S, K, A and E with solid white instead of leaving small seeping black lines showing what’s underneath.

Looks good but it could have been better I guess. That’s my take, what’s yours? What do you think of Shakey’s new logo?

Facebook Redesign Prototype

What do you think about this Facebook prototype design made by Australian art director and designer Fred Nerby? I think the use of grids and large visual tiles looks good. Facebook’s usual high-density content stream might take a back seat over clean white/empty space – which may not be a bad thing.

[via] Behance