A Good Trademark: A Historical Perspective
A Good Trademark: A Historical Perspective
Alas, no copies of this textile logos book are presently available on Amazon or eBay.
“The significance ...
Baseline — a designer framework by ProjetUrbain.com
Baseline — a designer framework by ProjetUrbain.com
Typographic and design standards on the web...
When I first started to design Baseline, I wanted to base the g...
XPLANE named #1,708 on Inc. 5,000
XPLANE named #1,708 on Inc. 5,000
Global information design consultancy demonstrates 186.4% growth
PORTLAND, Ore. (Aug. 13, 2009) -- XPLANE, a g...
“GOOD†Design
“GOOD†Design
Behind the scenes of GOOD Magazine's infographics.
We always found that there's info lurking behind every...
The Golden Hour Calculator | Sunrise and Sunset information for photographers
The Golden Hour Calculator | Sunrise and Sunset information for photographers
This is nice!
Discover when the Golden Hour is at your current location, explore visually how the golden hour ...
5 live sketching tips every designer should know
5 live sketching tips every designer should know
The Designer's Desk
By Drew Crowley, XPLANE designer
This is the first in a series of tips, tricks and recipes...
PICOL | Pictorial Communication Language
PICOL | Pictorial Communication Language
Quite vintage-looking, but it's always interesting to see how people work to visualize and simply concepts/thi...
The “Light†CMS Trend
The “Light†CMS Trend
Nice roundup of lightweight content management systems and web page editors:
CMSs are beautiful things. Just a...
New video: ‘Imagine Leadership,’ by XPLANE & HBS’s Nitin Nohria
New video: ‘Imagine Leadership,’ by XPLANE & HBS’s Nitin Nohria
We released this video last week:
XPLANE, in collaboration with Nitin Nohria, Richard P. Chapman Professor of...
XPLANE Creates ‘Imagine Leadership’ Video in Collaboration With Professor Nitin Nohria, Faculty Co-Chair of the Harvard Business School Leadership Initiative
XPLANE Creates ‘Imagine Leadership’ Video in Collaboration With Professor Nitin Nohria, Faculty Co-Chair of the Harvard Business School Leadership Initiative
Six-minute video asks viewers to imagine how leadership can address some of the most pressing problems in the ...
XPLANE wins 2009 Stevie American Business Award for best animation/illustration
XPLANE wins 2009 Stevie American Business Award for best animation/illustration
Company also recognized as finalist in two additional categories
PORTLAND, Ore. (June 26, 2009) -- XPLANE, a g...
25+ Useful Infographics for Web Designers
25+ Useful Infographics for Web Designers
As someone notes in the comments: "As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. Somehow seeing things wit...
phiii.com – the graphic finder
phiii.com – the graphic finder
Looks like the start of a buy-n-sell infogaphics site?
Basically, everyone in phiii participate, both as buyer...
How to reduce your PSD file size using Photoshop
How to reduce your PSD file size using Photoshop
Wow:
If you want to save some space (my tests showed a loss of 20%, but I didn't try it on bigger files, ...
Never Use White Type on a Black Background: And 50 Other Ridiculous Design Rules
Never Use White Type on a Black Background: And 50 Other Ridiculous Design Rules
What a great idea for a visual book:
Design has many rules that claim to be big truths and full of wisdom. Des...
XPLANE: A big part of Oregon’s creative vitality
XPLANE: A big part of Oregon’s creative vitality
Earlier this year XPLANE was interviewed for the Oregon Arts Commission’s Annual Vitality report. It's just ...
Man decorates basement with $10 worth of Sharpie
Man decorates basement with $10 worth of Sharpie
Nice.
When Charlie Kratzer started on the basement art project in his south Lexington home, he was surrounded ...
XPLANE is a finalist for three 2009 Stevie American Business Awards
XPLANE is a finalist for three 2009 Stevie American Business Awards
Recognized for Best Advertising, Editorial or Design Agency, Best Single Ad: Energy and Best Animation/Illustr...
Cargo
Cargo
I just got beta access and can't wait to try out this visually-oriented CMS:
The Cargo platform powers a varie...
FlowingPrints
FlowingPrints
FlowingPrints, brought to you by Nathan from FlowingData:
FlowingPrints posterizes the hidden stories in data....
GOOD Transparencies Archive
GOOD Transparencies Archive
The official GOOD Magazine infographics archive on Flickr:
GOOD is an editorially-led, member-driven community...
Lou Romano: The art of UP
Lou Romano: The art of UP
Have a look at this amazing work:
Here is some of the development & production work I did on UP (2005-2008). S...
RANDOM WALK: The visualization of randomness
RANDOM WALK: The visualization of randomness
Beautiful:
There is one remarkable thing about randomness: Its existence is neither proved nor disproved it ev...
Still workin’…
Still workin’…
Yikes -- two months?!? I'm getting ready to relaunch xBlog soon. Thanks for yer patience....