Time Traveller • Issue 4 • NOISE
Themed source of inspiration from the past, present and future for curious creatives. By @alvaroarregui, Señor Product Lead @ustwo
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Hola and welcome back!
This issue is all about visual NOISE — the need for it when things look quiet, or paring it back if things feel overloaded.
Enjoy!
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If you are new here, hi! I recommend reading Issue #3 COLOUR to get yourself up to speed.
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Designer fetish
Overlooked: the art of the humble manhole cover
The visual noise of the streets blinds our vision, and most of us rarely stop to contemplate the crafted beauty of the manhole covers in our cities. @Pentagram’s partner @marinawiller has collected some of them in Overlooked, their 45th Paper.
This project looks quite similar to 2015’s Souvenir project by a French designer in Tokyo: David Robert, who imprints manhole covers from all over Japan. The resulting images are a sexy collection of graphite noise on paper.
The Signal-to-Noise Ratio
The ratio of relevant to irrelevant information in a design (the highest possible signal-to-noise ratio is your goal as a designer). This piece by Steven Bradley may read a bit academic and yet many designers don’t take it very seriously in their work. It’s a constant challenge for UI designers trying to shine in a workflow of Agile sprints and UX requirements.
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Digital products
Reduce Folder Noise with Lingo
Lingo claims to be the best way to organise, share and use all your visual assets in one place. Even though I find it a very nice-looking solution and very easy to use, I was hoping it could read my already existing Finder folders, so I can see the actual files within them. Instead you must duplicate files by manually dragging them into Lingo… worth a try though.
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Retro inspiration
_SILENT NOISE
_OPTICAL NOISE
_GIF NOISE
_MINIMAL NOISE
_TEXTURAL NOISE
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Sounds that keep us pixelating
AMBIENT NOISE
Not new, but always handy, Noisli is a fantastic background noise and colour generator for designing and/or relaxing. I like cranking the rustling leaves 🍃
REAL DATA NOISE
Legendary Ryoji Ikeda’s music can help to either excite you or calm you while designing.
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Hasta la vista bitchachos👋
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