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17th May 2002

Bruce Mau interview: Architectural Record

“Bruce Mau relishes problems. He may be best known for his graphic design of books and other publications, but don’t call Mau a graphic designer. Viewing design in far broader terms, Mau has collaborated with architects, filmmakers, and performance artists, and has designed videos, exhibitions, and graphic identities for buildings and companies.”

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17th May 2002

Creative Commons

“Creative Commons is a non-profit founded on the notion that some people do not want to exercise all of the intellectual property rights the law affords them. For many reasons, people might like to share their work (and the power to reuse, modify, and distribute their work) with the public on generous terms. Creative Commons intends to help people express this preference for sharing.”

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17th May 2002

The Postage Stamps of Donald Evans

“When Donald Evans (born Morristown, New Jersey USA in 1945) was a boy, he drifted from his hobby of collecting postage stamps to creating his own postage stamps of countries he made up in his imagination. He kept doing this for the rest of his life. He left behind an astonishing planet seen through its nations’ postage stamps, thousands of them, all drawn to postage-stamp size, with all the familiar periphery of postage stamps hand-done… the perforations, old envelopes, postmarks, addresses…”

UPDATE 14 Jun 2007: The original link is dead, here’s a different entry on Donald Evans.

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17th May 2002

Creative Commons

“Creative Commons is a non-profit founded on the notion that some people do not want to exercise all of the intellectual property rights the law affords them. For many reasons, people might like to share their work (and the power to reuse, modify, and distribute their work) with the public on generous terms. Creative Commons intends to help people express this preference for sharing.”

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17th May 2002

Bruce Mau interview: Architectural Record

“Bruce Mau relishes problems. He may be best known for his graphic design of books and other publications, but don’t call Mau a graphic designer. Viewing design in far broader terms, Mau has collaborated with architects, filmmakers, and performance artists, and has designed videos, exhibitions, and graphic identities for buildings and companies.”

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17th May 2002

Vintage Luggage Labels

“Vintage labels explores the history of the luggage label and the lost art of travel. The site catalogs and provides a history of luggage labels, picture galleries and collectors guide to this growing field of ephemera collectibles.”

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17th May 2002

The Postage Stamps of Donald Evans

“When Donald Evans (born Morristown, New Jersey USA in 1945) was a boy, he drifted from his hobby of collecting postage stamps to creating his own postage stamps of countries he made up in his imagination. He kept doing this for the rest of his life. He left behind an astonishing planet seen through its nations’ postage stamps, thousands of them, all drawn to postage-stamp size, with all the familiar periphery of postage stamps hand-done… the perforations, old envelopes, postmarks, addresses…”

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17th May 2002

Promoting IA — Survey Results

Good links if you scroll down: “We want ROI (Return On Investment) cases to make because the people we’re selling IA to want ROI cases. I find this scary, as ROI cases are typically BS (Bull Shit). If we have to make up silly numbers to make our clients happy, so be it. But shouldn’t we also be educating them about why these numbers are so silly? If we don’t, we hurt them, ourselves, and the field in the long run.”

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17th May 2002

Vintage Luggage Labels

“Vintage labels explores the history of the luggage label and the lost art of travel. The site catalogs and provides a history of luggage labels, picture galleries and collectors guide to this growing field of ephemera collectibles.”

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17th May 2002

Top Ten Guidelines for Homepage Usability

“A company’s homepage is its face to the world and the starting point for most user visits. Improving your homepage multiplies the entire website’s business value, so following key guidelines for homepage usability is well worth the investment.”

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17th May 2002

Top Ten Guidelines for Homepage Usability

“A company’s homepage is its face to the world and the starting point for most user visits. Improving your homepage multiplies the entire website’s business value, so following key guidelines for homepage usability is well worth the investment.”

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17th May 2002

Good URLs for Good People (URLizer)

“Enter a bad URL, and we’ll URLize it to something reasonable! The idea for this service sprang from Knight-Ridder’s inept redesign of their web sites, described as Death by Content Management, effectively destroying years of important commentary by San Jose Mercury Columnist Dan Gillmor.”

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