“Herbert Bayer was born on April 5, 1900 in a village near Salzburg in Northern Austria. At age 19, the young Bayer became an apprentice of Linz artist Georg Schmidthammer. While studying in Schmidthammer’s workshop Bayer designed letterheads, posters and advertisements…”
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“There aren’t many things I appreciate more than a good sign or lettering sample. Both are endangered species in today’s world of tasteless, homogenous vinyl lettering and computer-generated shite. (Don’t get me started…). I sort of hesitated to share these with the world, but hopefully they won’t be abused and co-opted for commercial BS. I urge you to notice and document signs like these before they disappear.”
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“Influence is a rapidly expanding field of psychological inquiry devoted to discovering the principles that determine beliefs, create attitudes, and move people to action. In other words, influence examines the process that causes humans to change.”
“It’s been another wild and wacky year for this wonderful beast we call the web. Here is Shift’s summation of how Web 2001 — aka After The Gold Rush — has gone down so far.”
“It’s been another wild and wacky year for this wonderful beast we call the web. Here is Shift’s summation of how Web 2001 — aka After The Gold Rush — has gone down so far.”
“Herbert Bayer was born on April 5, 1900 in a village near Salzburg in Northern Austria. At age 19, the young Bayer became an apprentice of Linz artist Georg Schmidthammer. While studying in Schmidthammer’s workshop Bayer designed letterheads, posters and advertisements…”
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“To use CSS for layout effectively, it helps to know how it’s used to position page content. This article gives an overview of the methods and rules that govern visual rendering in the CSS2 specification. It also points out some things to watch out for.”
“[Steven] Johnson’s first book, 1997’s ‘Interface Culture,’ proposed the ambitious argument that the human-computer interface might be ‘the art form of the 21st century.’ ‘Emergence’ aims at even headier game: Johnson combines elements of complexity and chaos theory to look at how decentralized, adaptive, self-organizing systems flourish in the world today.”
“More than 25 curators and scholars, artists and art historians will gather at New York University this weekend to discuss — and, presumably, to debate — David Hockney’s iconoclastic theory that old masters, all the way back to 1430, used optical devices to help them produce realistic images.”
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