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Design anywhere digital culture NEWS // May 2002
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Rzhanov as in poly-prolific? He self-describes as a poly-genre
art design studio equals diversity! Equals classic art with a capital
A! Equals a genial icing of creativity! Poly-genre as in poly-prolific?
The site itself has a unique simple 3D frame which right off is intriguing.
The sobriety becomes the perfect stage to display in its best light the
poly-visual symphony.
Please be patient, the downloads are heavy but every piece in this unusual
portfolio is worth every bytes! Click the left bottom area to get the
*overview* of all his work or the right side needle to browse items one
by one.
From collages to paintings, from advertising to print layouts, from
pictures to 3D montages this collection of work is the quintessential
demonstration of visual refinement. Every detail is perfect.
There's such an imaginative treatment of information and yet the poetically
dreamy flow takes you in completely. It is a fabulous visual experience.
Bon voyage!
Louis
Rosenfeld author of a IA related book which has been on our web design
bookshelve (both virtual and in our studio) has done a small survey on
information architecture.
Read the results.
A
gem compilation of wise thoughts an
Incomplete Manifesto for Growth - I actually printed it and have
read through a couple of time.
Inspiring! Written by Bruce Mau, author of Life Style,
an inside look at his studio process, philosophy as well as creative
work. Definitely a ref book worth the investment.
One
of the first site displayed in our *Explorative* directory - z x 2 6
miniature pixel interface is impressive detail wise.
Creative
Behavior - May issue.
Color-People
a new portal which claims to be an *online celebration of visual communication*.
NetBaby,
fun! Pixel based design.
Andreas
Källbom is looking for an intership in graphic design; check his
portfolio.
For
people who make websites:
CSS Beyond
the browser : going to print by Eric Mayer
Tables
or CSS: Choosing a layout by Craig Saila.
Read
the Netcraft Web Server Survey and
find out which soft runs the show. This makes for encouraging facts/numbers
for the open source movement.
Linux vs. Windows: TCO (total cost of ownership) comparison.
(PDF file)
The
Peace Corps needs Information Technology help to Bridge the Digital Divide. Interested?
Uh-oh
somebody messed up real bad here!
“LONDON, May 20 — Technology buffs have cracked
music publishing giant Sony Music’s elaborate disc copy-protection
technology with a decidedly low-tech method.”
A
Visual Rather Than Verbal Future by Leslie Walker
“With all due respect to fellow computing gurus
around the world, the University of Maryland's Ben Shneiderman doesn't
think speech will ever become the main way people communicate with computers.
He's convinced our eyes will do better than our voices at helping us
control the digital machinery of the 21st century.”
No
Logo : No Space No Choice No Jobs by Naomi Klein
This is a must read - 4 years worth of research on what branding means
to our society. Brillant, precise and definitely not mainstream. This
is an eye opener.
Check the nologo.org site.
Lessig's
new initiative: Cultivating
a New Creative Commons - is a non-profit organization founded on
the notion that some people would prefer to share their creative works
(and the power to copy, modify, and distribute their works) instead of
exercising all of the restrictions of copyright law.
Net
Clearinghouse for Creatives from Wired magazine.
Cascading
Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation by Owen Briggs,
Steve Champeon (WedDesign List),
Eric Costello, Matthew Patterson.
Special
Edition Using HTML and XHTML (7th Edition) by Molly
E. Holzschlag
Back
and forth they go.... Macromedia
wins $4.9m in Adobe patent suit.
Jens
Karrlsson made a fabulous new interface for his CHAPTER3.
The
pop-up ad campaign from hell! It's the latest in Web marketing
innovation: Hijacked Web surfers, exploited Web browser vulnerabilities
and malicious spyware all wrapped up together by Brian McWilliams.
You can check a utility soft for removing such - called Ad-Ware.
Blogging
Goes Corporate by Farhad Manjoo
Shop
talk interview with Jeffrey on Sitepoint...
the latest on what the web can be.
Questions were sent by community members and collated.
pl
st! c bg virtual landscapes brand new bag and expanding the limits of
interface design!
ActiveX
flaw exposes Flash users to hacks by Matt Loney.
Download the patch version of the player here.
Fork
Unstable Media - redesign. Fork was one of the very first site
displayed in the Food for the imagination gallery.
Quality = Longevity.
Looks
like Adobe's just won, which means that Macromedia will have to stop
selling Flash in the near future, at least as long as they have tabs...
Adobe
wins Macromedia patent suit by David Becker.
AGFA
has sent C&D letters to Tom Murphy (of Divide by Zero) commanding
him to remove his utility program embed.
Brought
to you by Fluid (who updated their
site recently with smart flash functionalities): After
Effects 5.5 Magic book written by co-founder Nathan Moody.
New Riders publshed an interview here.
Looks
like Apple is suing Sorenson
for licensing their codec to Macromedia for Flash MX.
Subtraction
keeps on adding up!
Kilochart =
1068 color chips with code brought to you by Bob Stein.
For
people who make websites:
Clarifying
the concept by Joe Clark and
Moving toward
accessible rich media by Andrew Kirkpatrick.
f
r o g d e s i g n - quite a shop!
Scene
360 presents: Web
Special: For the Love of Design (V PART ARTICLE)
“Each site creator was asked the same four questions. The main
concept is throughout the year, it has been clear that many design related
sites are launched online in large mass, although, not many actually
stay for the long run...”
A
new project was launched *Creative
Day*.
Microsoft
— Innovator or Imitator? Short and to the point review of this
topic by x-ms exec Tom McMahon.
Don't miss this other article too: Bill
Gates to Consumers: Microsoft Chooses, You Pay.
800*600
= Peter from Inertia sent me an announcement that the book is out. Support!
Read a nice interview with Peter
Hamza by Shift.jp and learn more about the concept behind.
Linda
Rathgeber (Playingwithfire)
wrote for Macromedia Sutdio MX Using
the photo-retouching bitmap tools for creative effects.
Don't miss her book on Fireworks 4.
Excellent
new issue #11 of Reservocation mag!
Don't miss the WeWorkforThem interview!
Web
ReDesign: Workflow that Works by Kelly Goto, Emily Cotler
Fresh
Styles for Web Designers: Eye Candy from the Underground by Curt
Cloninger
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