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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...
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 ...