I really appreciate this article simply because it links to many, ?near canonical past articles from others in our field. It takes a lot of work, technically (aside from typographically) to get this right, I hope it get’s better soon. One other resource for fonts I am keeping an eye on is an open source […]
Just a thought, when shopping online, how often do you really want to sort by Price: High to Low? I mean in all practical applications you’ve done your research on which product already thereby making the decision on wether to buy a cheap, middle of the road, or high end thing. Right?
The Rise and Fall of Design Within Reach | Fast Company. Well I’ve always called it “Design Within Reach ? of 2% of the Population”. I was always under the impression that modern design practice was about mass production thereby enabling more people to enjoy well designed objects, not to push design into a more […]
50 states and 50 metros. The fifty largest metro areas (in blue), disaggregated from their states (in orange). Each has been scaled and sorted according to population. The metro areas are US-Census defined CBSAs and MSAs. It took me a moment to grok it, for instance, there are no labels but if you hold your […]
Birds – Cornell Lab of Ornithology Excellent site! If you click through to a story there is a link for an Interactive Analyzer.
ALAMEDA COUNTY / Blind student sues Target over firm’s Web site / It lacks software that allows access to visually impaired Basically an online retailer is being sued because their site does not meet accessibility standards that allow a blind person to participate. I knew it would be coming sooner or later. So where does […]
Ning is a free online service (yeah but if it’s a service how’ll it remain free?) allowing one to easily build and use social applications. What is social software? It tends to be a web application enabling one to post content, e.g., photos, bookmarks, reviews, and easily match, transact, or communicate with other people. The […]
editorsweblog.org: New media acquisitions: New York Times becomes a dominant web player “About. com was founded in 1997 with a simple premise, that people are the best Guides to the Internet. We have built on that belief over the past seven years. Today, when you read an article on About.com, you are tapping into a […]
Like anyone who designs I want ultimate control. Sure, the typical email postcard with text in a div next to an image is nice and it works… but wouldn’t it be great to have really control it and composite the text into a bitmap!? Oh wait, that’d be like 2nd generation web design (which some […]
Welcome to Arts at Emory Top level arts page?? Would definitely do a service to at the very least have a centralized calendar for “the arts”. The point was made, correctly, that we lack such a thing while we do have an athletics calendar.