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Introducing Typekit
Introducing Typekit
True font control on the Web? It's getting closer:
When we started Small Batch Inc. last year, our goal was to...
Dave Gray joins Rosenfeld Media strategic board
Dave Gray joins Rosenfeld Media strategic board
Here's a snippet from the Rosenfeld web site:
We're thrilled to announce that Dave Gray, chairman of XPLANE, f...
Recently completed: An awesome poster for Microsoft Silverlight
Recently completed: An awesome poster for Microsoft Silverlight
Microsoft’s Silverlight team was looking for a way to improve how it communicates key features of the newest...
Anyone Can Swiss
Anyone Can Swiss
"With our patented auto-swissification technology, making posters is a snap!"...
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable
"Print media does much of society's heavy journalistic lifting, from flooding the zone — covering ...
The Cult of Done Manifesto
The Cult of Done Manifesto
"Dear Members of the Cult of Done, I present to you a manifesto of done. This was written in collaboration wit...
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...