“PowerPoint, the ubiquitous Microsoft business application, is not meant to be looked at too closely. People aren’t supposed to notice its simplified graphics, ready-made templates, pie charts, arrows and icons; they’re only supposed to notice the ideas that these features help organize… With his newest project, David Byrne has tried not only to see it anew, but also to use it in the least likely of all applications: a medium for creative expression.”

“Information Architecture For Designers is low on theory, high on practice. It contains practical examples, how-to’s, do’s and don’ts and ready-to-use templates, illustrating concepts, tools and deliverables that can be used immediately in real-life by anyone responsible for designing web sites. Practical explanations and tips are illustrated with case studies from industry leaders like IBM and Microsoft, and clear explanations of the latest cutting-edge research from the academic world.”

“As Warhol predicted with ‘15 minutes of fame,’ hundreds of millions of individuals are craving immortality, or at least some public attention. Whether it’s blogging, participating in Big Brother, having a character in a novel named after you, or adorning your car with personalized license plates, the masses want their names out there. This is where graffiti meets vanity to form GRAVANITY: an entire industry catering to the obsession of ordinary citizens wanting to leave ’something’ behind in print, audio or imagery, preferably in the public domain.”

“The purpose of American posters has always been to grab the individual and the collective consciousness and demand attention and action. Whatever the message — from urgent appeals to patriotism to voices raised in protest, from pleas for environmentalism to seductive suggestions urging us to buy jeans — the poster reflects the explosion of ideas in the twentieth century, both intellectual and visual.”

“Information Architecture For Designers is low on theory, high on practice. It contains practical examples, how-to’s, do’s and don’ts and ready-to-use templates, illustrating concepts, tools and deliverables that can be used immediately in real-life by anyone responsible for designing web sites. Practical explanations and tips are illustrated with case studies from industry leaders like IBM and Microsoft, and clear explanations of the latest cutting-edge research from the academic world.”

“All this thing does is create a random number and slap it into a filename that has the structure used by default in a few different digital cameras.” It then returns the results via Google. (Warning: You never know what kind of photos people have posted to the Web. Some may be offensive or not safe for work.)

“On October 8, 2000, I wrote about a TV ad for autotrader.com, which utilized a visual metaphor for search that I felt was necessary to help most searchers to really understand how search works. Well, now someone has made that a reality. Iokio.biz is in the business of providing visualization tools for sifting through data.”