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7th May 2003

Libraries with Wireless Networks

“Tell me if your library has wireless network of any kind. Send me a URL that links to either your library or a page describing your wireless efforts. Many libraries are running programs where they lend laptops. They are included here if they also have a wireless network for the laptops. This list includes libraries that already have a wireless network or have almost finished installing it.”

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7th May 2003

Visual Language

“Written language is just a particular case of visual language. In fact there are many visual languages that appear to share common rules. Thinking about the visual language can help us to convey our messages in a more effective way.”

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7th May 2003

Creating Favicons on a Macintosh

“To make the image easier to work on initially, I created a new document with the dimensions of 64×64 (your favicon needs to be 16×16, so simply scaling down 75% from 64×64 gets this final result).”

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7th May 2003

The May Day Project

“Over one day in May, people all over the world will be taking a photograph an hour to illustrate a day in their life. Will you be photographing yours too? The May Day Project is about collecting glimpses into people’s lives through photographs. Whether they be self portraits, landscapes or macros, candid or posed, snapshots or something more creative — we want to see what your day was like Saturday May 10th 2003.”

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7th May 2003

Visual Language

“Written language is just a particular case of visual language. In fact there are many visual languages that appear to share common rules. Thinking about the visual language can help us to convey our messages in a more effective way.”

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7th May 2003

Why good design comes from bad design

“…the first day of class I arrived at the studio room, and found a young man at a drawing table, sketching out different variations of the Walkman® he was designing. I got close enough to see the large sketchpad and saw 30 or 40 different variations that he had considered and put down on paper. I introduced myself, pleaded ignorance about design, and asked him why he needed to make so many sketches. He thought for a second, and then said, ‘I don’t know what a good idea looks like until I’ve seen the bad ones.’”

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