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10th October 2002

Color in Scientific Visualization

“A large amount of data is produced as a result of high performance scientific computing. The term, visualization for scientific computing, shortened to scientific visualization, was coined in 1986 and refers to the science or methodology of quickly and effectively displaying scientific data. The goal of scientific visualization is to enhance scientific productivity by utilizing human visual perception and computer graphics techniques… In order to use these graphics effectively, some understanding of visual perception is needed.”

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10th October 2002

2003 SXSW Interactive Big Bag Design Competition

“What exactly is a ‘Big Bag?’ The Big Bag is the souvenir canvas bag distributed to all SXSW Interactive registrants. These bags display original art and contain magazines, companies’ product samples and tons of fun promotional materials. Previous bag artists range from Mike Judge to feelgoodanyway.com to South Park’s Trey Parker & Matt Stone to Todd McFarlane… The winning design from the Big Bag Design Competition will be printed on over 2500 SXSW Interactive bags for the 2003 event in March.”

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10th October 2002

The man who knew: Connecting the dots

“How Al Qaeda’s global network slowly came into focus for U.S. intelligence (1993-2001). Click on a box at the top of map to reveal what U.S. intelligence knew at a particular point in time. Then, roll over individual events and names for details.”

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10th October 2002

2003 SXSW Interactive Big Bag Design Competition

“What exactly is a ‘Big Bag?’ The Big Bag is the souvenir canvas bag distributed to all SXSW Interactive registrants. These bags display original art and contain magazines, companies’ product samples and tons of fun promotional materials. Previous bag artists range from Mike Judge to feelgoodanyway.com to South Park’s Trey Parker & Matt Stone to Todd McFarlane… The winning design from the Big Bag Design Competition will be printed on over 2500 SXSW Interactive bags for the 2003 event in March.”

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10th October 2002

Visual Edge 2002

“For six days in the fall of 2002, thirteen teams of professional and student journalists joined with a group of multimedia coaches at The Poynter Institute for Visual Edge 2002. The result, a series of stories told with photographs, video and sound, are presented here so that you can experience some of what we call the V.E. Sphere.”

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10th October 2002

Tim Harrower: Need help with newspaper design?

“Need a crash course in the basics? New ideas for your staff? A design upgrade? Worry not. For 15 years (and for thousands of journalists) Tim Harrower has helped eliminate the confusion. Want to attend a stimulating design workshop? Or does your newsroom staff need a day of training or consulting? When it comes to design, we’ve got the edge.”

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10th October 2002

The Origins of Writing

“This site was created as part of a student internship at Utah State University. Content for the site came from the final projects of USU students within an ‘Origins of Writing’ class (Anthropology 3170), taught by Dr. David F. Lancy in the Fall of 1999. Each student submitted a research paper, along with supporting illustrations and photographs.”

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10th October 2002

Tim Harrower: Need help with newspaper design?

“Need a crash course in the basics? New ideas for your staff? A design upgrade? Worry not. For 15 years (and for thousands of journalists) Tim Harrower has helped eliminate the confusion. Want to attend a stimulating design workshop? Or does your newsroom staff need a day of training or consulting? When it comes to design, we’ve got the edge.”

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10th October 2002

The erotics of type

Warning: Contains sexual content! “From the simple figure 69, to elaborate tongue-in-cheek exercises like Michael Worthington’s ‘Dominatrix’ typeface, typographers and type designers as well as readers (and censors) have used letters and ciphers to suggest ‘prurient’ content. Throughout the history of typography, the ‘abstract’ medium of type is employed to evoke eroticism, not by merely using the obvious words, but by using the letterforms: Copulating letters, erotic ligatures and the dot.”

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