“I have found, to my surprise, that architects are not interested in laws of architecture. They prefer to design buildings on the basis of artistic fashion and ephemeral philosophical concerns. The same reaction greeted the efforts of my distinguished colleagues, Christopher Alexander and Léon Krier, to reform architecture as a discipline.”

“Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593) [was an] Italian painter, draughtsman and tapestry designer… He came from a distinguished Milanese family that included a number of archbishops of the city… In 1558 he was paid for designing tapestries for Como Cathedral… His fame came after the series of composite portraits of heads made up of a variety of objects both natural and man-made.”

“I am developing a tutorial at this site to demonstrate how visual information is used in art. Some of the factors that I hope to illustrate are aspects of depth perception, color perception, and form perception.”

“Matt Jones is an information architect who has been building spaces for news online since 1995. Some of his first Web design projects were the Times of London and Sunday Times of London’s Web sites. From 1997 to 1999 he was creative director for the BBC News Online’s first Web site, which was widely praised and in 1998 won the first Interactive BAFTA award for an online product. After some time with Sapient and KPMG, he’s working with the BBC again in new media development. His weblog, BlackBeltJones, has become a must-read for Web designers and anyone working on social spaces online. Matt talked with OJR about digital architecture, what led to the BBC News site’s success, where he thinks online news should be heading, and why online editors have to be Sherpas, not censors.”

“Over 2,500 images are in our searchable archive of family snapshots. 200+ photo essays exploring how photographs shape our memories are posted in the CV Gallery, the CV Museum, and Positive Visions. Please contribute your stories and photographs or create essays inspired by the images in our archive.”

“I am developing a tutorial at this site to demonstrate how visual information is used in art. Some of the factors that I hope to illustrate are aspects of depth perception, color perception, and form perception.”

“The misson of this site is to provide anatomy references for artists like me, who are looking for the right way of creating fantasy and reality through the art. It is not designed for violation of copyrights. Some of anatomy pictures on this site are my own, and some of them I ve downloaded from internet.” (May be NSFW due to nudes.)

“I’ve worked with Flash for several years and have always been slightly dissatisfied with the markup needed to embed a movie in web pages. When I recently published a site in XHTML, my dissatisfaction with the markup grew as I realized that it simply wasn’t valid in this context and was bloating my pages to unacceptable levels. A leaner, standards-compliant method of embedding Flash movies was called for.”

“I’ve worked with Flash for several years and have always been slightly dissatisfied with the markup needed to embed a movie in web pages. When I recently published a site in XHTML, my dissatisfaction with the markup grew as I realized that it simply wasn’t valid in this context and was bloating my pages to unacceptable levels. A leaner, standards-compliant method of embedding Flash movies was called for.”

“The misson of this site is to provide anatomy references for artists like me, who are looking for the right way of creating fantasy and reality through the art. It is not designed for violation of copyrights. Some of anatomy pictures on this site are my own, and some of them I ve downloaded from internet.” (May be NSFW due to nudes.)

“Taxonomies… thesauri… classification systems… synonym rings. We’ve heard all of these terms in the context of the Web. As Web sites expand, the task of organizing them has become increasingly problematic and complex. All of the terms mentioned above are controlled vocabularies. That means that they are organized lists of words and phrases, or notation systems, that are used to initially tag content, and then to find it through navigation or search. Unfortunately, a great deal of disagreement exists as to the individual definitions of each of the terms I mentioned; we spend too much of our valuable time misunderstanding each other.”

Photos by Marc Schiller. Also see the galleries for stencils, stickers and grafitti.

“This texture collection includes more than 3,000 royalty free seamless and full sized textures created by Auto FX Software. They are yours for free just for being a member of our site. After you have joined our site and have logged in, click on any of the textures you want to download them.”

“We’ve flown over most of the California coastline before and have seen the beauty of the natural coastline and destruction that man has wrought unto it… and from time-to-time over the years we have volunteered our time and resources to help protect the coast. We’ve been called to photograph ‘after’ pictures of illegal activity that has destroyed the coast, but rarely do we have the ‘before’ pictures. More than once we wished we’d used the opportunity to photograph a ‘before’ picture. This started us thinking — what if we photographed the entire coast as a baseline of ‘before’ pictures?”

“The Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture (AIfIA) is a 501c6 non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to advancing and promoting information architecture… AIfIA serves to advance the design of shared information environments. We support a global community infrastructure that connects people, ideas, content, and tools. Through research, education, advocacy and community service, we promote excellence within our field and build bridges to related disciplines and organizations.”