“This is a virtual online gallery I’ve created to display and share the best items in my collection of 1920s and 1930s travel-related ephemera. Many friends and fellow collectors have asked to see the items in my collection so I figured, why not, I’ll build a website to display the best ones. Nothing on this website is for sale, it is purely an online gallery. My basic passion is paper items such as travel brochures, airline time-tables, ocean liner time-tables, auto road maps, luggage labels, advertising, and graphic design publications from the the 1920s and 1930s, primarily in Europe but also Asia and, to a small degree, the U.S.A.”

“President Bush’s sales pitch for his $2.13 trillion proposed budget pulls out all the stops, visually, with full-color photographs, lively graphics and color-coded program scorecards. A waving American flag in vibrant red, white and blue bedecks the front cover of the 426-page document submitted to Congress yesterday. It’s a far cry from the usual drab, single-color presentation of tables. Hardly a page goes by without a snatch of color to help bring the parade of numbers to life.”

“Critics of e-learning are quick to point out that many course offerings are nothing but digital page-turners. Some refer to the act of taking an e-learning course as ‘e-reading.’ Many reasons are attributed to this prevalent condition — from time and budget constraints to limitations of traditional instructional design. We feel another important reason is the lack of exposure to alternative practices. In this article, we take cues from Interaction Design, Usability Engineering and Product Design on a process known as empathic design, a user-centered approach to design that can lead to innovative e-learning.”

“Web services is an emerging technology driven by the will to securely expose business logic beyond the firewall. Through Web services one can encapsulate existing business processes, publish them as services, search for and subscribe to other services, and exchange information throughout and beyond the enterprise. Web services will enable application-to-application e-marketplace interaction, removing the inefficiencies of human intervention. Although there are many opinions as to what constitutes a ‘Web service,’ each definition shares some common ground; Markup Language components transported over the Internet via HTTP. IBM says, ‘Web services are self-contained, modular applications that can be described, published, located, and invoked over a network, generally, the World Wide Web.’”

“Categories for the Description of Works of Art is a product of the Art Information Task Force (AITF), which encouraged dialog between art historians, art information professionals, and information providers so that together they could develop guidelines for describing works of art, architecture, groups of objects, and visual and textual surrogates.”

“Two IAs describe the deliverables an Information Architect creates. They show how User Scenarios, Interaction Flows, Architecture Maps, and Storyboards lead to better products.”

“Categories for the Description of Works of Art is a product of the Art Information Task Force (AITF), which encouraged dialog between art historians, art information professionals, and information providers so that together they could develop guidelines for describing works of art, architecture, groups of objects, and visual and textual surrogates.”

“Information visualisation is the visual presentation of information spaces and structures to facilitate their rapid assimilation and understanding… These lecture notes have evolved over several years of teaching and talking about InfoVis.” Lecture Notes by Dr. Keith Andrews, Graz University of Technology (Draft Version of 6 March 2000).

“An illustrated chronology of innovations by Michael Friendly and Daniel J. Denis: The graphic portrayal of quantitative information has deep roots. These roots reach into histories of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visualization, which are intertwined with each other. They also connect with the rise of statistical thinking up through the 19th century, and developments in technology into the 20th century. From above ground, we can see the current fruit; we must look below to see the its pedigree and germination. There certainly have been many new things in the world of visualization; but unless you know its history, everything might seem novel.”

“As online journalism’s poster child for commercial success, The Wall Street Journal Online would seem to be the last candidate for a massive site renovation. After all, when 625,000 subscribers care enough to pay for your content, you must be doing more than one or two things right. So why completely overhaul a Web site that works? And what on earth or online accounted for the $28 million price tag being bandied about?”

“An illustrated chronology of innovations by Michael Friendly and Daniel J. Denis: The graphic portrayal of quantitative information has deep roots. These roots reach into histories of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visualization, which are intertwined with each other. They also connect with the rise of statistical thinking up through the 19th century, and developments in technology into the 20th century. From above ground, we can see the current fruit; we must look below to see the its pedigree and germination. There certainly have been many new things in the world of visualization; but unless you know its history, everything might seem novel.”

“Information visualisation is the visual presentation of information spaces and structures to facilitate their rapid assimilation and understanding… These lecture notes have evolved over several years of teaching and talking about InfoVis.” Lecture Notes by Dr. Keith Andrews, Graz University of Technology (Draft Version of 6 March 2000).

“An illustrated chronology of innovations by Michael Friendly and Daniel J. Denis: The graphic portrayal of quantitative information has deep roots. These roots reach into histories of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visualization, which are intertwined with each other. They also connect with the rise of statistical thinking up through the 19th century, and developments in technology into the 20th century. From above ground, we can see the current fruit; we must look below to see the its pedigree and germination. There certainly have been many new things in the world of visualization; but unless you know its history, everything might seem novel.”

“As online journalism’s poster child for commercial success, The Wall Street Journal Online would seem to be the last candidate for a massive site renovation. After all, when 625,000 subscribers care enough to pay for your content, you must be doing more than one or two things right. So why completely overhaul a Web site that works? And what on earth or online accounted for the $28 million price tag being bandied about?”

“Walking out of the office door to grab a coffee a few days ago, I saw these tire tracks in the back lot… I bet the drivers never even saw what they left behind.”