“Do you know Isaac Newton’s Theory of Colour? Or maybe Goethe’s? We present you with a total of 59 easy-to-understand, richly illustrated colour theories from the Antiquity to modern times: in short, a complete cultural history of colour written by Prof. Narciso Silvestrini and Prof. Ernst Peter Fischer.”

“These pages are a resource for artists and art students that focus on the technical fundamentals of perspective, shading, color and painting. They were compiled and designed by Ralph Larmann, art faculty member in the University of Evansville Art Department, and are intended for educational use only.”

Leap WorkLounge and Ottoman (I feel like I’m cheating on Herman Miller by linking this!): “Combining the comfort and style of a classic club chair with Steelcase’s groundbreaking Leap technology, the Leap WorkLounge and Ottoman brings new possibilities to the well-appointed office, whether at work or at home. Designed to support an extended range of alternative work postures, the Leap WorkLounge allows the sitter to work while upright, relaxed, or reclined. Its companion ottoman acts as a footstool or as an auxiliary seat for visitors; with a simple movement, the ottoman also rotates up to provide a small worktable for reading, writing, or laptop computing.”

“While everything is, technically, an experience of some sort, there is something special to many experiences that make them worth discussing. In particular, the elements that contribute to superior experiences are knowable and reproducible, which makes them designable. The concept to grasp is that all experiences are important and that we can learn from them whether they are traditional, physical, offline experiences or whether they are digital, online, or other technological experiences. In fact, we know a great deal about experiences and their creation through these other, established disciplines that can-and must-be used to develop new solutions. These aren’t always obvious and, surely, they aren’t fool-proof, but it’s important to realize that great experiences can be deliberate and based upon some principles that have been proven.”

“While other search engines sputter and fail, Monika Henzinger, Google’s director of research, has an answer to every query.”

“Throughout the Great Plains, images of men, horses and a nomadic way of life have been scratched into rock walls, a pictographic record whose precise meaning has long been a mystery to modern eyes. But researchers have recently unearthed documents that are helping them pry far more detail from the images found on rock faces from Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park in southern Alberta to the cactus-studded plains of northern Mexico. They say most of the images are a form of picture writing, a cross-tribal code that was widely recognized.”

“…there is nothing really remarkable about co-designing It’s the obvious, the only, way to design anything. How could one possibly do it any differently? Why should one want to do it any differently? As designers, we introduce something into the world; therefore we have a social and moral obligation to involve the people who are going to have to put up with it. It’s an act of courtesy; it’s an act of politeness. I sometimes feel, by the way, that some of these remarks make me a sort of professor of the bleeding obvious.”

“Kerning is act of adjusting the space between letter pairs. When you set type in any pro-grade graphics program (like Photoshop, Fireworks, etc.), you have the ability to alter the space between letter pairs, making minute adjustments until your type looks just right. What’s that you say? ‘It looks fine without adjustments of the space between letter pairs?’ Put down those pork rinds and pay close attention Cletus… I’m going to enlighten you.”

“Throughout the Great Plains, images of men, horses and a nomadic way of life have been scratched into rock walls, a pictographic record whose precise meaning has long been a mystery to modern eyes. But researchers have recently unearthed documents that are helping them pry far more detail from the images found on rock faces from Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park in southern Alberta to the cactus-studded plains of northern Mexico. They say most of the images are a form of picture writing, a cross-tribal code that was widely recognized.”

“Surveying the variety of ways we display introductions to longer articles… I keep finding myself working on sites that have news or portal-like layouts, and each time I start from scratch thinking about how to display the headlines and summaries. No more, I started this gallery to capture the many ways it’s done, and perhaps I’ll eventually map these to the audience and business goals.”

“Once upon a time, executives at i-shops used to tell anyone who would listen that the world was now conducting business on Internet time. They probably had no idea that the swift collapse of their industry would happen on Internet time as well.”

“I’ve broken down and started up a blog. Like a lot of recently out-of-work folks/new bloggers, I’ve been ripped from the warm embrace of a highly charged intellectual environment. And I miss it terribly. Sure, I could just read all the great stuff that other people are writing, though with the potential demise of Tomalak’s Realm, that might become much more difficult. But honestly: I hate to read content that’s related to work. I like to think this is not disinterest or intellectual laziness, like some people. No, I’d just rather read the stuff my friends feed me. I also find that IA-related concepts are much more enjoyable if I get a chance to articulate them, not just read about them; hence bloug.”

“DesignArchiveOnline is a networked learning resource on the history of design. An interactive collection of images and supporting textual documentation drawn from the Wallace Library Special Collections, it provides the means to make the unique primary resources in these collections easily accessible to users and promotes wider use of the collections while protecting the fragile and valuable items they include.”

“Covers have been the storefront attraction of magazines for decades, and big-budget magazines like Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and Vanity Fair regularly schedule costly photo shoots with star contract photographers like Richard Avedon, Patrick Demarchelier and Annie Leibovitz. But editors of magazines with less spectacular budgets, like Men’s Health, are increasingly paying more attention than ever to the cover, which with its magical mix of images, buy-me colors, stimulating promises and alarm-sounding headlines can induce readers to pluck a magazine off a supermarket or newsstand rack.”

“From deserts to polar lands, coastal regions to cosmopolitan cities, the Earth From Above project has been capturing our home in all its natural and man-made glory. And all on Fuji film. Helmed by acclaimed aerial photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand, this project was launched in 1996, and has been under the patronage of UNESCO ever since. While Yann’s works will be exhibited at major cities all over the world in the year 2000 to commemorate the end of the millennium, we hope to expose his work to as many more people as possible for a long time to come through this web site.”