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Design

The Immersive Ugliness of Our Environments in America is Entropy Made Visible

September 17, 2008

I cannot claim to have made the title of this blog post but rather James Howard Kunstler can. He did so at the beginning of his talk at the TED conference in 2004 (I love the gems that keep getting found at the TED website). Oddly enough I came across this video when reading a blog [...]

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Drowning in Packaging

December 27, 2007

The things I buy typically have too much packaging. I am usually aware of this and when dealing with one or two items purchased at the store it is not too big a deal. There is a moment that the thought goes through my head… “Man, this is WAY too much packaging for just this [...]

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A Touch Up Was In Order.

December 6, 2007

Well it happens to most every web site sooner or later—updating the layout and look of everything—and this web site is no exception. The old design of this blog was many years old, did not support many features of WordPress, my blogging software of choice, and quite honestly I was just sick of looking at [...]

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A long overdue initiative for email

November 28, 2007

Today marks the start of the Email Standards Project. A project that is long overdue. For anyone who develops ‘rich’ content for emails can attest, it can be a b*tch to get what you have looking good in Eudora to look good in Lotus Notes 8. In my opinion its worse than the bad old [...]

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Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo

October 16, 2007

A remarkable display of image technology by Blaise Aguera y Arcas at TED. This video is certainly worth watching. Strange that I just came across this today via a link from my friend Walker Cahall. The talk is a few months old. The idea of how this image technology can impact those of us lucky [...]

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Visualization Methods

October 11, 2007

I am a big fan of Edward R. Tufte who is hailed as one of the world’s leading analysts of graphic information. I’ve seen his lecture in person and it is worth attending. I own all four of his hard-cover books and have read the first three—the last is the next read on my list: [...]

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Design Thinking

October 8, 2007

The title is a topic I read about every so often in the blogosphere and sometimes mentioned in books. Fortunately this topic is gaining more attention in the mainstream business world. The idea is that designers of all kinds: graphic, web, industrial, interior, fashion, information, etc., play a critical role in society and business. Designers [...]

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Advertising Agencies need to wake up

October 3, 2007

A blog post on NussbaumonDesign at Business Week hints that corporations may be beginning to get savvy about the future of marketing and PR on the web. Corporations are realizing they are literally wasting money. It is simply a matter of time for them to wake up and realize they are spending millions on a [...]

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