After seeing the Wordle created using the text of Nathan Shedroff's book, Design is the Problem, I thought, what the heck. Let's give my blog a shot! After playing around a bit, this is what I got, and for my first Wordle, I'm pretty happy how it turned out.
What I love about Wordle is that it plays around with playing around with words. The size, color, and spacial position of a word in relation to another combine to create unique word clouds. And it's all a matter of chance, because once you edit one aspect of your Wordle, it'll completely rearrange the composition of the size and position of the words. It's such a simple concept too. Making designs out of words? Why not?
It also reminded me of Lou Dorfsman's Gastrotypographicalassemblage. Maybe Jonathan Feinberg found inspiration in the iconic wall. So many inventors and designers value originality, but so many of the best products on the market are reinventions of something old.
Take the iPhone, which is basically an all-in-one phone. It is similar in form to the Newton MessagePad, which was on the market several years before the 21st century. But why do we hear about the iPhone craze, while the MessagePad wasn't anything close to a pop cultural phenomenon? Those Apple designers know how to redesign and suit the ever-changing needs and wants of society [their great advertising doesn't hurt either].
Take the iPhone, which is basically an all-in-one phone. It is similar in form to the Newton MessagePad, which was on the market several years before the 21st century. But why do we hear about the iPhone craze, while the MessagePad wasn't anything close to a pop cultural phenomenon? Those Apple designers know how to redesign and suit the ever-changing needs and wants of society [their great advertising doesn't hurt either].
Other than the light bulb, there aren't many inventions I can think of that don't become better with time. Technology is continually improving, and with that, so are the products of yesterday.
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