Design Inspiration: Four Beards One Pencil. Vol. 3

This is possibly the only time we wish Bournemouth were a little bit colder so that we could grab our boards and try this out along the seven miles of golden sand that are conveniently close to CUBE Towers.

This week we’ve been focused on creating designs for a new project that we can’t wait to launch soon – you’ll be the first to hear about it! To get our heads in the game we have loved the latest tracks from Future and Alchemist. This is our jam.

If you’ve been following Four Beards, One Pencil over the recent weeks you’ll probably have noticed a theme, our love for coffee. But one thing we cannot condone is flavoured coffee. Nope. Never. Ever!

In our opinion back button labels are just as evil! Back buttons labels patronise all of us. Do we really question where the little arrow in the top left is going to take us? No. They’re redundant visual clutter now and we ain’t having none of it no more.

When it comes to design if your user doesn’t understand it, then your design is wrong. This article explains all by giving us a lesson in sugar sticks. N.B. You’ve been using them wrong!

As a digital agency that uses tech for good we love to see projects that aim to make the world a better place. Google’s use of their extensive data and mapping capabilities caught our attention this week. Project Sunroof computes how much sunlight hits your roof in a year.

When you enter your address, Project Sunroof looks up your home in Google Maps and combines that information with other databases to create a plan of the best way you can use solar energy.

Rather than telling the time on a 12 or 24-hour spectrum, this clock tells you what day it is in relation to the whole year. Not particularly useful if you want to know when you need to leave to catch the next bus, but it’s an interesting take on time-telling.

Projection mapping onto your t-shirt! This incredible piece of innovation straight from a lab in the University of Tokyo.