“The message for fashionistas for 2003 is clear: keep it clean, keep it refreshed and keep it simple. At Premier Vision, there was newness if all classifications of fabrics that were retrospective of past trends, but the approach was neat and novel. Even the decorative classifications were decidedly uncontrived. The market is now appealing to the consumers’ desire for sensible uncomplicated things.”

“Graphic Design School Review is your resource for finding top graphic design schools and colleges offering degree programs and courses in graphic design and visual communications. Whether you’re interested in a career as a graphic designer, layout artist, multimedia designer, or web designer — this is the place to find the training you need to start your career!”

“Graphic Design School Review is your resource for finding top graphic design schools and colleges offering degree programs and courses in graphic design and visual communications. Whether you’re interested in a career as a graphic designer, layout artist, multimedia designer, or web designer — this is the place to find the training you need to start your career!”

“Find out how 25 top online retailers handle misspellings, synonyms, hyphenation, plurals, and other real-world search queries. Plus, this report is full of ideas, insights, and 22 best practices to help you make your site’s search results more useful.”

“Design your own house plan, view it from above, take a 3d walkthrough and print it out.”

“Before Theodore Seuss Geisel found fame as a children’s book author, the primary outlet for his creative efforts was magazines. His first steady job after he left Oxford was as a cartoonist for Judge, a New York City publication. In 1927 one of these cartoons opened the way to a more profitable career, as well as greater public exposure, as an advertising illustrator.”

“Reader Dan Collins recently sent me the BIG question. ‘In your opinion, what are the best designed news websites?’ I have to say, this is a painful question, because it’s so hard to answer. I don’t think there is a “best” out there yet. Some sites do things better than others, but overall we/they are still feeling their way through the dark.”

“It came as a surprise to me after over 20 years of seeing ‘normal’ world maps to come across an upside down one. The most surprising thing was that I found it surprising. It is completely artificial that we have North at the top of a map. The convention came a few centuries ago when Northern hemisphere, European navigators started using the North star and the magnetic compass. Before that, the top of the map was to the East which is where the word orientation comes from.”

“With a flatbed scanner at your desk and a little photoshop skill, you can make illustrations on the fly. As a camera, scanners have about a half-inch of depth of field. Beyond that drops out of focus, which often is a good effect. The quality of light is also soft and luminous.”

“The modern camera is a wonderful thing, but it’s nice to remember how simple the mechanism can be. You can strip away the technology until there is little left but the abstraction on which the machine is based… To simplify these cameras as much as possible I made them out of the 11×14 inch photo-paper itself. There is no film in the camera because the camera is the film. Like a salad bowl made of lettuce leaf, and consumed with the meal, the camera doesn’t exist after its utility is fulfilled. There is no machine. It is more of an arrangement than a thing.”

“Reader Dan Collins recently sent me the BIG question. ‘In your opinion, what are the best designed news websites?’ I have to say, this is a painful question, because it’s so hard to answer. I don’t think there is a “best” out there yet. Some sites do things better than others, but overall we/they are still feeling their way through the dark.”

“The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) … announced today the recommendation of a new larger sized unit which when integrated with three existing IAB recommended ad sizes, will create a Universal Ad Package. Designed to be acceptable to advertisers and agencies, the package was created in response to advertiser demand for simpler, more cost effective units and a stronger creative palette. As it does with all new industry recommendations, the IAB will solicit industry feedback on the Universal Ad Package.”

“Ticket stubs are everywhere, one of the many receipts in our daily lives — but we all save some from time to time. The Ticketstub project is a place where you can upload scanned images of your saved stubs, and tell a story about that night, that concert, that movie, what happened on that date; basically, ask youself why you saved the stub as a reminder.”

“Prompted by a discussion about maps of the London Underground I had with a friend, I spent a few minutes searching for a geographically accurate Tube map that I remembered running across a couple of years ago. I’m putting it here so I don’t lose it again. The type is a little small so you might have to squint to read it (sorry, couldn’t find a bigger version).”

“Prompted by a discussion about maps of the London Underground I had with a friend, I spent a few minutes searching for a geographically accurate Tube map that I remembered running across a couple of years ago. I’m putting it here so I don’t lose it again. The type is a little small so you might have to squint to read it (sorry, couldn’t find a bigger version).”