Old, but interesting… “When Apple unveiled its space-age iMac this spring, it caused a huge sensation. Not only is iMac turbo-charged and priced for the consumer market, it looks unlike any other machine out there — computer or otherwise. Remarkable by any measure, the iMac demonstrates the incredible ‘Think different’ creativity of Apple’s in-house industrial design group, led by British-born designer Jonathan Ive. Who is Ive and how does he view the world? This interview provides a glimpse of Apple’s industrial design team leader.” Note: Here’s a slow mirror showing the new iMac.

“These should be the best of times for graphic design, a second golden age to rival only the invention of the printing press. A time pregnant with possibility, made muscular and radiant with sustenance and fortification of a new medium, the Internet. The World Wide Web has created a whole new space, immaterial but preformative across a thousand-million computer monitors. Incredible. It offers sound and motion, interactivity and informational linkages, scalability and reproducibility the likes of which have never been seen on a poster, or a brochure… Despite the market’s great expectations, these very well may be the worst times for graphic design.”

“The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art collects, presents, preserves, and interprets picture book art from around the world recognizing its importance as an art form. The museum strives to engage, delight, and educate diverse local, regional, national, and international audiences by encouraging inquiry and heightening appreciation of the visual world.”

Old, but interesting… “When Apple unveiled its space-age iMac this spring, it caused a huge sensation. Not only is iMac turbo-charged and priced for the consumer market, it looks unlike any other machine out there — computer or otherwise. Remarkable by any measure, the iMac demonstrates the incredible ‘Think different’ creativity of Apple’s in-house industrial design group, led by British-born designer Jonathan Ive. Who is Ive and how does he view the world? This interview provides a glimpse of Apple’s industrial design team leader.” Note: Here’s a slow mirror showing the new iMac.

“Researchers often ask whether or not a picture is worth a thousand words. Although of interest in many disciplines, this must be of central concern in the design of visual programming languages. Three empirical investigations suggest that the kinds of pictures used as visual programming languages do convey a predictable amount of information. This seems to be because people prefer diagrams drawn at a certain level of granularity, regardless of syntactic or semantic manipulations. A fourth study provides an alternative explanation — these results could arise from experimental demand factors. The conclusion is therefore more cautious than the title.”

“Researchers often ask whether or not a picture is worth a thousand words. Although of interest in many disciplines, this must be of central concern in the design of visual programming languages. Three empirical investigations suggest that the kinds of pictures used as visual programming languages do convey a predictable amount of information. This seems to be because people prefer diagrams drawn at a certain level of granularity, regardless of syntactic or semantic manipulations. A fourth study provides an alternative explanation — these results could arise from experimental demand factors. The conclusion is therefore more cautious than the title.”

“These should be the best of times for graphic design, a second golden age to rival only the invention of the printing press. A time pregnant with possibility, made muscular and radiant with sustenance and fortification of a new medium, the Internet. The World Wide Web has created a whole new space, immaterial but preformative across a thousand-million computer monitors. Incredible. It offers sound and motion, interactivity and informational linkages, scalability and reproducibility the likes of which have never been seen on a poster, or a brochure… Despite the market’s great expectations, these very well may be the worst times for graphic design.”