On the famous Galata bridge fisherman cast from the top level while outdoor restaurants line the walkway below. The fishermen’s lines are hard to see so dining at dusk you are surprised when silvery fish, glittering in the last light of the sun ascend to the sky as if swimming to the heavens. On Galata …
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Justifying Design Decisions
“The craft of graphic design is replete with ratios, rules of thumb, and math—all an attempt to rationalize decisions that otherwise fall to subjectivity. Finding justification for design decisions is important to me—I want to bring purpose and intent to my work and depend less on taste and opinion. But I often find myself designing …
THE CURVE OF A CHEEK
Let’s face it– artists love to draw faces. Penetrating eyes, distinctive noses, expressive mouths– these are often an artist’s richest lode. But when that face turns away and you no longer have facial features with all their emotion and meaning– what does that leave? Just the simple line of a human cheek. What can an …
How to Solve Problems
Here’s a relatively simple method of gaining insight into problems that face us. Often the reason we can’t solve a problem is that we don’t concentrate on it long enough to look at it from enough different angles or give our brains time to process our ideas subconsciously. Step One Take a sheet of paper …
Let Me Get Two Packs of Tolstoy and a Carton of Kafka
Every day Sarah sends me nifty things to read and see on my magic computer screen. Today’s stash included a post at Popgadget describing a plan to sell classic novellas in retro cigarette packs via cigarette vending machines after a U.K smoking ban in enclosed public places goes into effect. At least I think they’re …
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Information Architect
Web Worker Daily posts a mini-profile of Dayna Bateman, an information architect for Fry Inc. Various education qualifications are listed, and hands-on experience (though education can help out there too). I don’t find it a surprise that many shopping and interactive sites get it wrong and need help. Those are big projects and it requires …
Absorb Information Like Never Before
Have you ever had the experience of reading a book, listening to a presentation or watching a TV programme and discovering at the end that you could hardly remember any of the points made? If someone had asked you to summarise what had been said, you wouldn’t have known where to start. Well, if that …
Food Hacks: How to slice a watermelon
WikiHow runs down how to cut one of our favorite summer fruits, the watermelon. Watermelons are big and unwieldy, so slicing off the top helps stand it up on end. The other great hint? Cut along the dark stripes on the rind, which will make the seeds end up on the outside of your slices …
The Chess Machine
Designer name to come About to finish DeLillo’s Falling Man, I think I need a something a little lighter for my next book. This might be it: From the Publishers Weekly review: “Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen of Hungary, anxious to win the favor of Empress Maria Theresia, builds an engineering marvel: the Mechanical Turk, a …
the comic book industry
Fabio Econlog asks: why are American comics dominated by the super hero genre? Is it simply path dependence from an era when super heroes were popular? I don’t have the definitive answer, but here is some data: 1. Comic books in other countries focus on humor (Condorito/Latin America or Asterix in Europe) or historical drama …
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