7th
May
2003
“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.”
posted in Photography | Permalink |
7th
May
2003
“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.”
posted in Visual thinking | Permalink |
7th
May
2003
“…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.’”
posted in Interface design | Permalink |
1st
May
2003
“A dozen of the dumbest covers of American comic books we could find.”
posted in Comics | Permalink |
1st
May
2003
“As I have just finished the construction of the Graphics Gallery a couple of hours ago, it is of course rather empty. Right now it’s only people on this maillist, who know of the Gallery’s existence — but I trust that you see the possibilities and check in after a while — and of course you’re invited to start the ball rolling and be among the first to use this new feature.”
posted in Information graphics | Permalink |
1st
May
2003
“Symbols carved into tortoise shells more than 8,000 years ago may be the oldest words yet discovered. The findings may also shed light on the ritualistic practices of Neolithic China.”
posted in Language | Permalink |
1st
May
2003
“Archaeologists may have found the oldest example of writing from the Americas. The find gives clues to how the ancient civilizations of Central America developed, they say. Others dispute that the objects discovered bear writing.”
posted in Language | Permalink |
1st
May
2003
“The St. Claire, Inc. Sign Builder 2.0 includes a number of web-based tools designed to facilitate the creation of custom general and safety signs. Each Sign Builder tool has unique options designed to make the creation of any custom sign quick and easy.”
posted in Logos/Symbols | Permalink |
1st
May
2003
“A chart listing numerous features and the search engines and directories that support them.”
posted in Searching | Permalink |
