“Gone & Forgotten is a tries-to-be-monthly webzine dedicated to the worst, the lowest, the most ludicrous, the least memorable and the downright un-funkified of the whole world of comics.”

“A website that can read your body language and know what you want before you have even clicked on anything may sound like science fiction… A team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, US, say they have developed a way to record mouse movements on a page and learn how people behave when they are on the internet.”

“Edward Tufte is one of the few very ‘rich’ presenters I’ve encountered before — there’s no unnecessary repetition of content or other filler. I found myself really mentally involved with the class throughout the day. Tufte is a really gifted teacher/presenter; I left the class full of enthusiasm and excitement for the material he covered. Disclaimer: There’s no way that my notes could do justice to this class, and they are done mainly for my own later reference…”

“Edward Tufte is one of the few very ‘rich’ presenters I’ve encountered before — there’s no unnecessary repetition of content or other filler. I found myself really mentally involved with the class throughout the day. Tufte is a really gifted teacher/presenter; I left the class full of enthusiasm and excitement for the material he covered. Disclaimer: There’s no way that my notes could do justice to this class, and they are done mainly for my own later reference…”

“The unlikely chain of circumstances that would make Braille possible began during the Crusades with King Louis the Ninth of France. Already a religious man, Louis met a crushing defeat in the Crusades, barely escaping death. He returned to Paris certain that God was trying to teach him humility. This belief intensified his interest in charity and, among other good works, he founded the first institution for the blind in the world, the ‘Quinze-Vingts’ hospice (in English, ‘fifteen score’). The name refers to the first inhabitants, 300 knights blinded during the Crusades… A successful and beloved king at home, Louis nonetheless could not resist another attempt at a Crusade, where he met his death in 1270 when a fever swept the French camp in Tunis. Because of his piety, the Church canonized him in 1297 as ‘St. Louis.’ In an odd coincidence, he would one day have a city named after him that would play an important role, 600 years later, in the acceptance of Braille in America.”

“This week we interview Curt Cloninger author of ‘Fresh Styles for Web Designers’ which we reviewed last time. Curt talks about the leading designers he profiles, the dual nature of the Net, immersive environments, and what he’s working on now.”

“A website that can read your body language and know what you want before you have even clicked on anything may sound like science fiction… A team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, US, say they have developed a way to record mouse movements on a page and learn how people behave when they are on the internet.”

“Brand is the weapon of choice in the battle for survival. Fuelled by a core idea, and managed with imagination and precision, a brand will drive a company’s transformation. No wonder care of the brand has ascended from the marketing department up to the boardroom. Yet the concepts of 21st century brand-building are still strange to many of the corporate supremos — and they are people who will need to implement them. The ten tips that follow set out the ground rules for success.”

“So many poignant words have been written, so many tears shed in the past week. I can’t get my head around it all. I read that each of the floors of the WTC was nearly an acre in size… At this stage it sounds like the number of dead will likely be around 6,000. That just sounds too big to be right. I wondered what that many people would look like in a group photo, probably something like the start of a huge marathon run. So to satisfy my need to grasp this, I found an image of a group of 20 people — then multiplied it up to create a group of six thousand. This is what six thousand people looks like. As I was making the image, I kept thinking, ‘this must be wrong, it looks like too many,’ but it isn’t wrong.”

“Adobe Illustrator 10 streamlines production with support for new dynamic data-driven graphics, which automate the preparation of repetitive artwork. Print professionals can use dynamic data-driven graphics to create an unlimited number of variations of similarly formatted graphics. Web designers can create a template, and then use the new Variables palette to define objects, such as the product name and company logo in a Web banner, as variables. Users can then quickly generate an unlimited number of unique variations using scripts or dynamic image servers such as Adobe AlterCast, which generates customized graphics content on demand.”

“Adobe Illustrator 10 streamlines production with support for new dynamic data-driven graphics, which automate the preparation of repetitive artwork. Print professionals can use dynamic data-driven graphics to create an unlimited number of variations of similarly formatted graphics. Web designers can create a template, and then use the new Variables palette to define objects, such as the product name and company logo in a Web banner, as variables. Users can then quickly generate an unlimited number of unique variations using scripts or dynamic image servers such as Adobe AlterCast, which generates customized graphics content on demand.”

“Scalable interface design ensures that interface development takes account of the need to change over time, providing solutions that are flexible and thus ‘future-proof’ to some extent. Too often complex interface designs require a complete overhaul when even the smallest change is required in the functionality of the application or site in question. Building ’scalable’ interfaces in the first place will save time and cost in the long term — and make coping with upgrades easier for your customers.”

“In this post, two threads are at work. The first addresses an issue often raised in user-centered design, which is that its discipline and process don’t encourage innovation — many people equate UCD with usability engineering, a practice which seems to limit creativity, encouraging designs similar to those already out there, because that’s what people are familiar with… The second thread involves faceted classification, one of the most powerful, yet least understood, methods of organizing information.”

“In this post, two threads are at work. The first addresses an issue often raised in user-centered design, which is that its discipline and process don’t encourage innovation — many people equate UCD with usability engineering, a practice which seems to limit creativity, encouraging designs similar to those already out there, because that’s what people are familiar with… The second thread involves faceted classification, one of the most powerful, yet least understood, methods of organizing information.”

directory “Our passion for visual culture and our desire to share it gathered us around a project: computerlove. After a few litres of sweat, a ’shitload’ different layouts, trillions emails, and tons of nicotine/caffeine, we managed to get this first issue. This w