Archive for the ‘Web’ Category
Tell me how you are feeling
The New York Times have a feature on their website asking readers to submit a word that describes how they are feeling this US election day. They are also asked whom they support, Obama or McCain. Results are displayed graphically with, I assume, the more popular words at the top and in a larger point […]
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Tags: emotions, graphics, US election, words
Dashboards
I like the idea of the dashboard as a way of retrieving information with a quick glance. The Indianopolis Museum of Art has a dashboard which summarises some key figures about the museum. I think it would be more effective for the consumer if it had some comparisons. The kw useage for example could be […]
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Tags: comparing, dashboard
Presentation Tips
I can hardly believe that in about a month I will be in another country and back in school – I think the last exam I had was my driving test – so this will be interesting. I have given my fair share of presentation tips over the last couple of years whilst teaching, but […]
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Tags: presentation tips, ZuiPrezi
Plainview
This could be good for those of you who are creating websites. This piece of software allows you to browse websites of your choice without the distracting (and often ugly) buttons and what-not of the browser window. If you are presenting your web designs to clients it could be invaluable. It’s called Plainview
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Tags: Plainview, web browsing
OK, so it’s a fictional project but, never-the-less, it’s an effective ambient ad for the creator Erik Nordenankar. The work is called The Biggest Drawing in the World and was “created” by Erik sending a GPS unit around the world in a plane. More about the work here and thanks to We Made This for […]
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Tags: The Biggest Drawing in the World
Anything
Anything is a collaborative online publication that asks people to contribute either words or pictures then edit at will and as often as they wish. There are 64 pages to fill, and as soon as 1 image and 1 body of text fills the page, it is collected and filed. After all 64 are filled […]
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Tags: Anything magazine, reader submitted content
The online magazine
Search & Destroy has a post about the rise of magazines with versions online, where they put up exactly the content they have in the printed version as PDFs. Nothing really that exciting about this as it’s not really using the online medium for what it is good for. Where’s the linking, the deep referencing, […]
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Tags: magazines online
Design Indaba Capetown
The 10th Design Indaba in Capetown “aims to guide, enlighten, stimulate and inspire all who practise design, commission design or rely on design to run a business”. The Creative Review blog has been live posting from the conference. The summary below is from a talk by Professor Shin-ichi Takemura from Japan. The talk was all […]
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