Frank Chimero · What Screens Want

Personal site of designer Frank Chimero

These thoughts on digital canvases were first presented on November 14, 2013 at Build in Belfast, N. Ireland. This page is an adaptation of my talk. The past two years were a wild chase for answers. I read books, looked at art, listened to my heroes, and sketched out scratchy thoughts of my own to search for any sensible response to a question that had been lodged in my head for months: What does it mean to natively design for screens? I couldn’t get the question out of my head. I tried to find its contours, and just as I thought I had made some progress on a response, a new part of the pictur

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