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The Future of the Book
The Future of the Book
"Last night several dozen of us convened at the NextNow Collaboratory in Berkeley to discuss the future of the...
100 Awesome Classroom Videos to Learn New Teaching Techniques
100 Awesome Classroom Videos to Learn New Teaching Techniques
"With so many good teachers out there, it's fortunate they can share their knowledge via video on the Int...
XPLANE workshops in London and Geneva: Thinking visually to tackle business challenges
XPLANE workshops in London and Geneva: Thinking visually to tackle business challenges
A creative and innovative approach to problem solving: Statistical surveys have shown that design and visualis...
Dan Zettwoch: IN MY WHEELHOUSE
Dan Zettwoch: IN MY WHEELHOUSE
"If there was ever an illustration with my name on it, it was this one I did for the Riverfront Times talking ...
Our Middle Name (Hoefler & Frere-Jones on the ampersand)
Our Middle Name (Hoefler & Frere-Jones on the ampersand)
"Last month's posts about the ¶ and the ß prompted a flurry of e-mail inquiring about other special...
slide:ology, Duarte Design’s new book
slide:ology, Duarte Design’s new book
"Inform. Inspire. Persuade. It's the essence of presenting, but how well do you execute? Slide:ology, wri...
A List Apart: Articles: The Survey, 2008
A List Apart: Articles: The Survey, 2008
"Calling all designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers, and...
10 Ways Newspapers Can Improve Comments
10 Ways Newspapers Can Improve Comments
"The other day Bob Garfield had a good kvetch about dumb comments on newspaper websites on his show, On The Me...
Web Design Dashboard
Web Design Dashboard
"The definitive resource list for anyone designing, developing, marketing or maintaining websites."...
“Marks and Meaning” a new book by XPLANE founder Dave Gray
“Marks and Meaning” a new book by XPLANE founder Dave Gray
"Marks and meaning is a work in progress; an evolving exploration of visual language, visual thinking and visu...
Font Conference
Font Conference
"This video wasn't long enough, so we made it double-spaced."...
Scrnshots
Scrnshots
"Scrnshots.com is a community for designers to share screenshots of interesting and beautiful design." (Thanks...
Grassroots Comics
Grassroots Comics
"World Comics is a non-profit organization in Finland and India that promotes the use of local comics as a mea...
Conversation with Michael B. Johnson of Pixar (Part 1)
Conversation with Michael B. Johnson of Pixar (Part 1)
Peter Merholz: "At UX Week 2008, our Day 4 keynoter is Dr. Michael B. Johnson, who runs the Moving Pictures Gr...
How a page gets created
How a page gets created
"Matt Willey recently recorded his decision-making on a feature design for the Royal Academy magazine. It prov...
Daily Heller by Steven Heller
Daily Heller by Steven Heller
The "new-improved, re-designed, wordier, picture-ier Daily Heller" now in blog format....
Getty Images + Flickr Make a Deal
Getty Images + Flickr Make a Deal
"Getty and Flickr have just entered into an exclusive partnership to sell Flickr images.
Here's how it�...
Polite, Pertinent, and… Pretty: Designing for the New-wave of Personal Informatics
Polite, Pertinent, and… Pretty: Designing for the New-wave of Personal Informatics
Matt Jones and Tom Coates, a presentation from the 2008 Web2.0Expo: "Today we're going to... examine what we f...
SparkFonts: Sparklines as TrueType Fonts
SparkFonts: Sparklines as TrueType Fonts
"A key characteristic of the SparkMaker add-in for Microsoft Office is the typographical creation of sparkline...
Studio Lettering at House Industries
Studio Lettering at House Industries
"The first 200 Studio Lettering buyers will receive a free 64-page hardbound book! Add a refreshing dash of ha...
WALL-E Easter Eggs
WALL-E Easter Eggs
"Pixar is known to fill their films with fun easter eggs and WALL-E is no different. Here are some of the thin...
URL, R.I.P, 1988 – 2008
URL, R.I.P, 1988 – 2008
"Ah, URL, we hardly knew ye. As has been widely reported and almost uniformly lamented, the ICANN has decided ...
Gene Weingarten – Yanks Thump Sox
Gene Weingarten – Yanks Thump Sox
"If you are like I, you are pretty sick of reading articles about how the financially-troubled newspaper indus...
Deceptive Areas
Deceptive Areas
"People are poor at accurately judging areas; they do much better comparing linear measures like the lengths o...