The End Well at the moment this post comes online I will be in the middle of my graduation project presentation which marks the end as student of Communication & Multimedia Design (CMD). It was a journey that searched for the essentials behind media, design and information. It began as a search for ultimate serious [...]

The first design. What was the first thing we designed as the human race? Well we together designed ourselves. We as people select with who we mate so the best combination of genes will live on. Random mutations create unattractive new forms that do not lead anywhere but also new attractive variants we love to [...]

Sometimes you just know you are on the right path but you can’t explain it. It is just a feeling. It is a feeling you get after absorbing lot’s of information on a certain area. You begin to feel the pattern before you actually see it. Good designers/humorists/artists/writers/scientists/anything that are good work just on the [...]

Once this post would be written. My big unification post. What am I searching for… Well I was searching for the ultimate goal of design. Design has only one goal. To improve, to construct, to unify, to become one and simple. Design works with improving what already is. So it communicates better, so it works [...]

Terrible things are happening in the world right now. Terrorists want to blow up planes full of westerns, Hezbollah is bombing Israeli cities with primitive rockets, innocent Lebanon people are terrorized and cities leveled by Israeli bombs. What the hell is happening? Let’s not look into the history. But let’s look at it from a [...]

All mediums have their own design movements. Think art with minimalism, dadaism, surrealism, futurism etc. Think Architecture with Bauhaus, rennaissance, avant-garde, modernism, postmodernism etc. They all look with a different perspective to the design. For example from an emotional, functional, technical point of view. But could also be centered around a philosophy, vision or religion. [...]

My computer of choice is Apple. It needed some convincing with me but in January I switched and now I will not return to Windows. I have become a real fan. I discovered that Apple is a religion. You either believe it or don’t. (Or you are not aware it exists and what it is) [...]

I was in the mood for a big change for my site. My old domain name Arquelis.com was not feeling alright anymore. It was a relic from the past and I associated it with my scifi internet time and the days when nicknames were cool. The first step on this road was naming my weblog [...]

Ted released a real cool video today on the multitouch displays I talked about in the earlier days of this blog. For those who don’t know, TED is an event that brings together thoughtleaders, movers and shakers to share their ideas. I recommend you to check out some of their videos. These multitouch screens are [...]

What is it about academia that they want to abstract everything? Why are there so many abstract articles and books that are incomprehensable for normal people? I hate it when I discover a needlessly abstract article on a nice subject. Boring stuff I went once to a dutch academic institution for a computer science study. [...]