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XPLANE CEO named to Portland Business Journal’s 40 Under 40
XPLANE CEO named to Portland Business Journal’s 40 Under 40
Aric Wood recognized as a top business and community leader in 2009
PORTLAND, Ore. (March 2, 2009) -- Aric Woo...
Aviary releases Raven: First online vector editor
Aviary releases Raven: First online vector editor
"We are excited to announce that we have released Raven, the very first web-based vector editor, into the wild...
Painting, Film, and Color: An Annotated List
Painting, Film, and Color: An Annotated List
"Painting's influence on film has been remarked upon in film scholarship and criticism for at least half ...
Magenta Ain’t A Colour
Magenta Ain’t A Colour
"A beam of white light is made up of all the colours in the spectrum. The range extends from red through to vi...
VizThink ’09, visual thinking and XPLANE
VizThink ’09, visual thinking and XPLANE
VizThink North America ‘09 is taking place this week in San Jose. XPLANE founder and chairman Dave Gray is a...
Craving a cigarette? How about 4,000 lethal chemicals?
Craving a cigarette? How about 4,000 lethal chemicals?
New XPLANE poster puts smoking hazards in black and white
XPLANE, a global information design consultancy, has...
WhatTheFont for iPhone
WhatTheFont for iPhone
"Ever seen a great font in a magazine ad, poster, or on the web and wondered what font it is? Whip out your iP...
Earth 2030 featured on YouTube Japan
Earth 2030 featured on YouTube Japan
Earth 2030, a four-minute video created by XPLANE for BASF Group about the importance of energy efficiency and...
Why you need to go to VizThink ’09
Why you need to go to VizThink ’09
VizThink, for those who haven’t heard of it, is a global community of visual thinkers that Dave Gray and XPL...
Free The Facts: Critical Issue, Killer Presentation
Free The Facts: Critical Issue, Killer Presentation
As posted by Tim O'Reilly over at O'Reilly Radar:
Dave Gray's Free The Facts presentation is a must-read, must...
Dave Gray » Projects
Dave Gray » Projects
Dave is the founder and president of XPLANE:
I'm a project guy. As an artist, entrepreneur, educator and ...
Fast, fun video illuminates Obama’s inauguration ceremonies
Fast, fun video illuminates Obama’s inauguration ceremonies
The XPLANE-created piece visually depicts 23 fun inauguration factoids.
XPLANE, the global information design ...
All the ephemera that’s fit to print *
All the ephemera that’s fit to print *
"Things Our Friends Have Written On The Internet 2008 is a publication that's been dropping through letter box...
Jeffrey Zeldman’s Web Standards Advisor
Jeffrey Zeldman’s Web Standards Advisor
"...Jeffrey Zeldman's Web Standards Advisor is a $49.99 extension for Adobe Dreamweaver. It includes two ...
Feltron Eight
Feltron Eight
The 2008 Feltron Annual Report is out!...
Pretty Loaded
Pretty Loaded
"Pretty Loaded is an archive of preloaders that preload other preloaders…which in turn reveal yet more p...
Contract Killer
Contract Killer
"When times get tough, it can often feel like there are no good people left in the world, only people who have...
Airbag – Goldfish
Airbag – Goldfish
"During Christmas season travel it occurred to me that the larger problems we, as an industry, have to work ar...
18 Lessons Learned in 2008
18 Lessons Learned in 2008
"It's time for our 2nd annual Year-End Lessons Learned post. 2008 was a great year for Common Craft. While we...
Did You Know? The 2008 Holiday Edition!
Did You Know? The 2008 Holiday Edition!
Happy Holidays from all of us at XPLANE! From Ukrainian Spiders to Egyptian Fruitcake -- sit back and enjoy th...
Say No to 72 dpi
Say No to 72 dpi
"We still frequently hear the very bad advice: 'Computer video screens show images at 72 dpi, so scan all your...
55 Great Websites To Download Free Sound Effects
55 Great Websites To Download Free Sound Effects
"Sound effects are used to emphasize artistic or other content of films, television shows, live performance, a...
40 Inspirational Speeches in 2 Minutes
40 Inspirational Speeches in 2 Minutes
"So way back in April, I first had the idea of editing together inspirational speeches. Since then, the Dow ha...
A History of Aggressive Design Magazines
A History of Aggressive Design Magazines
"Graphic design evolved during the late nineteenth century from a sideline of the printing industry into an au...