We Like Design. We Like Encyclopedias. Will We Like The Design Encyclopedia?

Googolplex apologies for the late start this morning, kids. We kicked ourselves out of our internets-equipped apartment for a trip to the shadier side of the warehouse street, and just now found an extremely tenuous connection. That’s not the only thing we found, though, thanks to our semi-weekly troll of the world wide web. Our new bffs (‘sup, Armin) at Speak Up have, just today, launched The Design Encyclopedia, which they’re billing as the wikipedia for the design-obsessed. Or just interested. Or, you know, just somehow ended up in this industry and can’t get out. They’re a little more articulate:

Inspired by the groundbreaking Wikipedia, as well as Typophile’s growing TypoWiki, the design encyclopedia strives to document, define, track and distill the world through its design implications. Pretty much anything–from movies to presidents to can openers to pop(corn)–can be, in one way or another, defined by design. Through the open environment that Wikis provide, we hope that you can help us build this important resource. We have started with some profession-specific entries–ranging from Emigre to Abbott Miller to AIGA–that should help springboard definitions that are outward reaching into the larger contexts of culture, politics, branding, economics, history, sports and more (i.e., Mountain Dew, Kleenex or USA Network).

Of course, they’re not gonna be able to multi-Kleenex-task on their own:

At this moment we encourage your participation to help us build this important resource. If you are a graphic designer, own a design firm or by the luck of the stars you are involved in any related field (photography, illustration, art and architecture or industrial, motion, web or textile design) we urge you to add your information to the encyclopedia and at the same time add any information you have on projects that you have worked on.

Time for our legitimacy.

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