Ludwig Wendzich

y'know that guy from nz

Who is this guy?

His name is Ludwig Wendzich and he doesn't usually speak in the third person. He lives in Auckland, New Zealand after emigrating from South Africa when he was seven years old.

He has a passion for art and design. He is currently a web designer stroke developer who has a particular interest in designing the user experience; mixing usability and accessibility with aesthetics to maximize efficiency and enjoyment.

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Thinking for a Living

I love the interaction model here, utilising different planes for different ways to organise content. Might want to use this for the “issues” design for my theory journal.

 Photography by Burak Arikan that shows the importance of simplicity and uniqueness in flag design for recognition purposes. I assume the same can be applied to most logos with similar success.

Photography by Burak Arikan that shows the importance of simplicity and uniqueness in flag design for recognition purposes. I assume the same can be applied to most logos with similar success.

I love this miniature-making style of photography and to see it in motion is fantastic!

If you’ve got a model where revenue is tied only to web page views, switching to full-content RSS feeds will hurt, at least in the short term. The problem, I say, isn’t with full-content RSS feeds, but rather with a business model that hinges solely on web page views.

via John Gruber (Daring Fireball), “Attention is the Real Resource”

iPad Application Design: back to reality.

I thought the success of the computer was because it was abstracting reality which enabled it to speed up workflow. Apparently the future is skinning that abstraction so it simulates reality.

My grandmother will understand it much easier I agree.

 Contemporary reaction to Jesus must have been similar. This man is crazy as hell. The difference I see is that Jesus gave and this man takes.

Contemporary reaction to Jesus must have been similar. This man is crazy as hell. The difference I see is that Jesus gave and this man takes.

Distribution of colours of the flags of world (individual country pie charts through the link.)

Distribution of colours of the flags of world (individual country pie charts through the link.)

Of the books we do print — the books we make — they need rigor. They need to be books where the object is embraced as a canvas by designer, publisher and writer. This is the only way these books as physical objects will carry any meaning moving forward.

via Craig Mod, “Books in the Age of the iPad”
A friend playing with cassette tape to create letters. I like.

A friend playing with cassette tape to create letters. I like.

Blame it on the boogie! My friend Helvetica.

Blame it on the boogie! My friend Helvetica.

Just awesome!

Just awesome!

This is awesome, love the juxtaposition between the literal and the visual messages! </prick>

This is awesome, love the juxtaposition between the literal and the visual messages! </prick>

Dear Mr. Jobs,

chrisbowler:

This is just a small taste of what I love about using a Mac.

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All the great developers who created these application make your product better. Please do the right thing and treat them like the professionals they are as you move us all down the path to touch computing and your closed marketplace.

Sincerely yours,

Devoted Mac ecosystem consumer.

 Love this! Type tastes through time.

Love this! Type tastes through time.

Go backward in time

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