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Flickr: Wim Crouwel
Flickr: Wim Crouwel
"This group was created to bring together all the great work done by the legendary graphic designer and typogr...
Alone with a Paintbrush
Alone with a Paintbrush
"In Liége, Belgium, [Santiago] Calatrava was one of seven contestants in an architectural competition to desi...
Working through Screens
Working through Screens
"100 Ideas for Envisioning Powerful, Engaging, and Productive User Experiences in Knowledge Work: Working thro...
Indexed by Jessica Hagy at VizThink’09
Indexed by Jessica Hagy at VizThink’09
"Visualization can be a very powerful tool. Even simple images have the power to be provocative, insightful, ...
The Typographic Desk Reference (TDR)
The Typographic Desk Reference (TDR)
"A quick reference guide of typographic terms and classification with definitions of form and usage for Latin ...
Flexible Fuel: Educating the Client on IA
Flexible Fuel: Educating the Client on IA
"Information architecture (IA) means so much to our projects, from setting requirements to establishing the ba...
Chris Pullman: What I’ve Learned
Chris Pullman: What I’ve Learned
"Chris Pullman is the only person who can be said to have won not one but two of the highest possible honors f...
Data Flow: Visualising Information in Graphic Design
Data Flow: Visualising Information in Graphic Design
"The recently released book 'Data Flow: Visualising Information in Graphic Design' available at Amazon.com and...
The Designer’s Review of Books
The Designer’s Review of Books
"Although there are several good design websites that occasionally have book reviews, there didn't seem t...
Feedback Army [Website Feedback Service]
Feedback Army [Website Feedback Service]
Uses Mechanical Turk: "Simple, cheap usability testing for your website. Start a usability test for your web p...
The Design State
The Design State
"Design State is a weblog about government web design and its attendant subtopics: accessibility, usability, a...
Gerd Arntz Web Archive: Isotype
Gerd Arntz Web Archive: Isotype
"The International System Of TYpographic Picture Education was developed by the Viennese social scientist and ...
Drupal.org, Design Iterations, and Designing in the open
Drupal.org, Design Iterations, and Designing in the open
"It's been a good while since I announced we're working on the redesign of Drupal.org. Two months, a...
Early Star Wars Storyboards
Early Star Wars Storyboards
"These are early storyboards from Star Wars, from before the Falcon was changed to its current design. I took ...
FOWD: Paul Boag of Headscape: Educating clients to say yes
FOWD: Paul Boag of Headscape: Educating clients to say yes
"Paul Boag's presentation on how to Educate Clients to say Yes was fantastic and my personal highlight of toda...
The Best Type Book with No Typesetting
The Best Type Book with No Typesetting
"The 1927 edition of Studio Handbook by Samuel Welo is 233 pages of beautiful type and timeless design advice....
XPLANE in Entrepreneur Magazine: Simplify business communication
XPLANE in Entrepreneur Magazine: Simplify business communication
XPLANE was featured in an article about how technology allows us to be more creative and visual than ever -- a...
4 Dead Celebrities Font Art Pieces
4 Dead Celebrities Font Art Pieces
"Dead Celebrities are always a fascinating subject to many, and this celebrity art created using actual fonts ...
The eyeballing game
The eyeballing game
"Some people are bothered by pictures on the wall hanging slightly crooked. Others may not even be aware that ...
XPLANE visually analyzes media coverage of California’s gay marriage legalization
XPLANE visually analyzes media coverage of California’s gay marriage legalization
Society of News Design analyzes coverage of California’s legalization of same-sex marriage
PORTLAND, Ore. (...
Savings & (mis)Trust video by XPLANE ranks #40 on YouTube’s weekly education favorites
Savings & (mis)Trust video by XPLANE ranks #40 on YouTube’s weekly education favorites
20,000+ viewers watch four-minute video visually explaining the subprime mortgage crisis
PORTLAND, Ore. (Oct....
Graphs that lie
Graphs that lie
"Here's one thing that's making me angry at the moment. In fact there are several things making me a...
David Armano: 5 Things I learned From Dave Gray
David Armano: 5 Things I learned From Dave Gray
David Armano is VP of Experience Design at Critical Mass. He and Dave spent some time together at the IDEA 200...
Savings & (mis)Trust: A Credit Crisis XPLANATiON
Savings & (mis)Trust: A Credit Crisis XPLANATiON
The subprime mortgage crisis XPLANEd: The United States economy is suffering one of the worst financial crises...