Blister Pack Semiotics
A three-week hang-up on why pill packaging looks the way it does — and what happens when you design a blister pack for information instead of medicine.
Steffen Wold is a web and graphic designer based in Lillehammer, Norway. Twenty years of practice, spent mostly on things nobody asked for — catalogued here as case files.
The latest hang-ups, documented before the next one takes over.
A three-week hang-up on why pill packaging looks the way it does — and what happens when you design a blister pack for information instead of medicine.
A field study of the button-and-coin interfaces that predate the touchscreen — and a concept for a machine that still uses them on purpose.
Two months deep in analog synthesizer panels, ending in a UI concept for a synth that only exists as a set of screens.
Every case file is filed under one compound class. Pick a discipline to see its record.
Marks, systems, and voices for things that need to be recognised at a glance.
2 ENTRIES 02How a hand, a cursor, or a coin meets a machine.
1 ENTRIES 03Physical objects, folded structures, and the ink that sits on them.
1 ENTRIES 04Letterforms under pressure — for eyes, scanners, or both.
1 ENTRIES 05Interfaces built to be lived in, not just looked at.
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