New Series – ‘Link for the Weekend’
In order to offer some kind of service through this blog, I would like to introduce a new series:
‘Link for the Weekend‘
This idea is inspired by the blog “Design Tagebuch” (DT) which features a rubric called “linktipp-am-sonntag” in which the author recommends interesting design-related webpages (on a fairly regular basis -always on Sundays- hence the name).
As follows you can find two examples of these Sunday link tips given by DT: The first one links to an interview given by Andrej Kupetz (an expert on appearance-related design) in the newspaper Handelsblatt (in German…). Kupetz talks about the importance of good appearance and design – especially in the context of difficult economic circumstances. The second example introduces two pages promoting Art & Design “made in Germany” – just have a look and see whether you like it.
Above, I mentioned that this new series was ‘inspired’ by DT, I could also put it in other words (perhaps more bluntly) and say that I just nicked the idea from DT. As a consequence I would like to make DT the very first link of this new series:
Design Tagebuch
DT is an award winning blog that deals with Art & Design in a large range of fields including web design, usability, corporate design, and so on. It links to a range of different design-related topics and gives very practical advices to the reader. As you might have noticed by now, it is a German blog and therefore the articles might be of limited use to non-German speakers. However, as the blog is related to Art & Design it naturally includes many pictures (and to most of them the old saying ‘a picture says more than a thousand words‘ applies). Since I was made aware of this blog I regularly revisit it to get ideas and impressions of what is generally considered to be ‘good’ design and what is not. In that context the comments placed in the DT blog can be seen as very useful.
‘Link for the Weekend’ – a limited edition
In the future these link tips will be very short referrals to interesting web pages… of course relating to green technologies. I thought it is too simple to just copy DT’s rubric ‘Linktipp am Sonntag” (although acknowledging DT for giving me this idea) by calling it ‘link tip on Sunday’ (a quick google blog search showed there are more blogs, newspapers who maintain similar rubrics). It is for that reason that I decided to add something (kind of) novel by limiting this series to only 10 episodes over the next months (they should appear on Fridays and could therefore be called “link for the weekend”- however, I would be grateful for alternative/better names).
I have already a few links in mind; nevertheless I would appreciate additional link suggestions from you.
