CRAP design can be a good thing

Robin Williams will tell you how CRAP design can actually be made into a good one.*

She is the author of The Non-Designer’s Design Book

*  (When CRAP means Contrast, Repetition, Alignment and Proximity.)

The uses of nice Typography

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/5718/peepoo-bag.html

It seems that a designer font can make ANYTHING palatable .

This is a bag designed to take care of basic sanitary needs in places where plumbing is not available.

Logo Design Pomposity

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/02/10/designer-bullshit-pe.html

A link to a presentation for a new Pepsi logo design.   The argument seems to be that bezier curves (a la ILLUSTRATOR) are futuristic and therefore can be used to create “THE FACE OF A NEW PEPSI GENERATION.” 

While it is true that brands do evolve over time , and the trend is arguably towards simplicity and a stripping away of excess, to take this and claim that one can EXTRAPOLATE the future from the past is invalid.