Counter-Print.co.uk "Counter-print.co.uk is dedicated to the promotion and sale of Art and Design related material. Often out of print or hard to find, we aim to celebrate both forgotten gems as well as those heralded designers that we all admire."
iMindMap™ Official Mind Map Software for mind and concept mapping
Sir Ken Robinson on American education Watch+Listen - Hammer Museum. 7/1/08 -- Sir Ken Robinson, author of "Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative," outline the current crisis in American education, compares our schools and universities with others around the globe, and with wit and humor, shows us the path towards a more enlightened America.
INFO DESIGN
Gerd Arntz Web Archive The most prolific icon and symbol designer of all times. Designer of the Otto Neurath's Isotype.
Felix Sockwell The prolific icon designer of the moment!
Johanna Drucker on digitally-based scholarship UCLA Digital Humanities & Media Studies. Many of the early approaches to digital humanities have come of age as substantial repositories and archives have become established. Early pioneering projects in editing, collections development, and visualization are now accepted parts of digital humanities' research. But huge challenges -- cultural and intellectual as much as technical -- remain if the humanities are to help shape the next generation of scholarly tools for research and pedagogy. This talk describes a work in progress, I.nterpret, that aims to engage humanistic concerns in a digital environment.
The Web Time Forgot The Mundaneum Museum Honors the First Concept of the World Wide Web - NYTimes.com
modernarchitecture.net Personal web site of Ewan Branda – architect, software designer, and currently a Ph.D. candidate in architectural history and theory at UCLA – as well as an old friend. His work deals the changes in architecture for "the organization and dissemination of cultural information."
Lewis and Clark Maps from the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection From the site: "The David Rumsey GIS Viewer allows on-line visitors a unique opportunity to easily interact with, integrate, and visualize these historic maps along with the modern geospatial data from NASA, USGS, ESRI and GCS Research.
The modern geospatial data that can be overlaid and compared to the historical maps includes urban areas, transportation infrastructure (roads, rail), public land survey, lakes, parks, state boundaries, digital elevation models and satellite imagery.
design philosophy papers Online publication out of Australia looking at design as a subject separate from Art and Science, but rather as a form of agency.
Designs on Policy Allison Arieff Blog - NYTimes.com
About U.S. Design Policy
Design it is a-changin’ : Design & Society From Emily Campell's Design & Society blog, part of the RSA, Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (very Ruskin!!)
Redesigning America's Future 10 design policy proposals for the united states of america’s economic competitiveness &
democratIc governance. The American Design Communities, JanUary 5, 2009
Talk to the Hand: Dan Saffer and gestural interfaces by Andy Polaine - Core77 "Most product design is done wrong...too many devices come onto the market where the interface and the physical product were clearly done by two separate groups that never talk to each other."
crowdSPRING "Global marketplace for logo design, business card design, graphic design and website design." Addressed to clients: "1. Post a creative project; 2. Watch the world contribute ideas; 3. Choose the one you like."
"The Creativity of Crowds" - Forbes.com Christopher Steiner, 01.22.09, 06:00 PM EST
Forbes Magazine dated February 16, 2009
"CrowdSpring aims to slash the cost of graphic design work--and democratize a snooty business."
Dunne & Raby They make critical design – it's function is to raise questions.
It's the end of graphic design as we know it eye opinion by Rick Poynor. A brilliant argument for graphic design/ visual communication via a review of the 'New Views 2' conference.
Kyoto Design Declaration Outlines a global design agreement supported by ICSID, BEDA, AIGA and EIDD. "By signing the Kyoto Design Declaration, the members of Cumulus committed to sharing global responsibility for building sustainable, human-centred and creative societies."
CULTURE IS CHANGING
Talking About My Generation From Entrepreneur magazine: "Gen Xers, Gen Yers, Millennials and Boomers are all working alongside each other. But how do you get them to work well together?"
Why Bother? By Michael Pollan From the "The Way we Live Now" column in the NY Times Sunday Magazine, Published: April 20, 2008
An astoundingly elegant description of impacts of global warming, culturally, socially, economically – the multitude of issues at stake and why its worth changing our lifestyles.
CHRISTOPHER SILAS NEAL Artist and Illustrator. Maybe the next Charlie Harper although the subjects he work with might be wider. I'd seen much of his work in the NY Times and also found out that my Dad shares a passion for his work as well.
