Mandership http://www.artlebedev.com/mandership/ Mandership is a project by Artemy Lebedev. It is largely concerned with graphic and industrial design, interface engineering, typography, semiotics, and visualization. It has been running since 1997.A couple of opinions “A good logo should be simple enough for anyone to draw from memory.” http://www.artlebedev.com/mandership/160/ 2009-06-03 00:00:002009-06-03 00:00:00Artemy LebedevIntroduction of the rouble sign There used to be no need for a special rouble sign. http://www.artlebedev.com/mandership/159/ 2009-03-25 00:00:002009-03-25 00:00:00Artemy LebedevOn stylized design Every stylized design sucks. http://www.artlebedev.com/mandership/157/ 2009-01-07 00:00:002009-01-07 00:00:00Artemy LebedevDesign is war Graphic design can serve purposes more sophisticated than simply decorative. Let’s take for example the history of the debate between tobacco producers and health groups. http://www.artlebedev.com/mandership/156/ 2008-12-22 00:00:002008-12-22 00:00:00Artemy LebedevPrinting icons and screenshots Desktop publishing specialists know that images to be printed have to have a resolution of 300 dots per inch. Web designers too have heard about this magic number, and keep sincere faith in it. As a result, both printing staff and web designers become incapable of properly printing a pictogram or a screenshot, images with initially low resolution. http://www.artlebedev.com/mandership/155/ 2008-12-20 00:00:002008-12-20 00:00:00Artemy LebedevHave YOU made a finger-pointing poster? In 1914 London Opinion published an issue with lord Kitchener on the cover—the British Minister of War stared piercingly pointing his finger at the viewer. http://www.artlebedev.com/mandership/154/ 2008-12-08 00:00:002008-12-08 00:00:00Artemy LebedevLebedev’s pyramid The proportion shown below is true of any company, organization or community. http://www.artlebedev.com/mandership/153/ 2008-10-30 00:00:002008-10-30 00:00:00Artemy LebedevTime makes things worse The author clearly sees that with time humankind loses efficiency (while progress is another thing). People wish to spend less effort and money to gain more and more in return. What they have in a hundred years they’ll find inferior to what we have now (and what we today think to be low quality). http://www.artlebedev.com/mandership/151/ 2008-10-10 00:00:002008-10-10 00:00:00Artemy LebedevAd absurdum One of the most effective techniques in design is trying to develop intrinsically inconvenient, overcomplicated and confusing solutions. http://www.artlebedev.com/mandership/150/ 2008-07-08 00:00:002008-07-08 00:00:00Artemy LebedevAchieving tasks The author believes that design is about achieving tasks, not about creating things. If a designer thinks that design means making it look nice, he/she simply fails to see the purpose of the work. Customers are allowed to have a different opinion. It’s because in some cases to make it look nice is the very task. http://www.artlebedev.com/mandership/149/ 2008-07-08 00:00:002008-07-08 00:00:00Artemy Lebedev