“The Designers Holy Triangle: Good, Fast and Cheap. Clients must choose only two out of the three options. They can’t have it all. It’s a reality of life, clients must deal with it. Designers must deal with it.”

“Publishers of newspapers and magazines like to corral readers when they’re young. If you can shape kids’ info-seeking habits when they’re in their teens or twenties, so the thinking goes, you’ll nab them for life… Young people just aren’t interested in reading newspapers and print magazines.”

“A government agency unveils its new logo. A geometric abstraction, it intrigues some but baffles many. Eventually, the inevitable question: my tax money paid for this? Finally, the handwringing once the exorbitant fee is revealed.”

“Welcome to the Over the Hill Gang, design bugs that have been around so long that we’ve begun to think of them as folk heros. However, the usual requirement for turning a public enemy into a folk hero is death, not longevity, and so it should be for these worthies: Their executions are long overdue. These bugs aren’t necessarily fatal. The are all at minimum highly irritating, and they have all survived for a minimum of five years or five product release cycles, whichever came first.”

“This page is designed to provide helpful information, samples, lessons and tutorials for university level technical illustration students and professional technical illustrators. Hopefully, you will find the contents of this site to be of assistance in your endeavors.”

“Here is a collection of illustrated articles on the chief causes of image degradation in photography. Currently available pages can be accessed via hyperlinks. The reader should keep in mind that the articles are more about principles of photographic optics rather than tests of specific lenses. Also, most of the phenomena have been captured on film. Since a film acts as no more than a light-sensitive medium, the examples equally apply to a digital recorder array. In the few cases where the nature of the recording medium is important, this will be emphasized.”

“This blog is about the intersection of tech-enabled social networking and emerging media audiences. Technology is pulling together personal networks of people for more persistent connectedness and giving them tools for creating and sharing content. Meanwhile, most media companies are grappling with how to capture and keep enough mind- and time-share to make a profit from target audiences. What is the connection between these trends?”

“Here’s the favicons from the 560 rss feeds I read, in feedname alphabetical order… I wanted to create a weblog alphabet, so here’s just the favicon ‘letters’:”

“Often when we hear the word ‘art,’ images of paintbrushes, sketchpads and galleries enter our minds. But art is more than just paintings, extending far beyond a traditional frame to more fully convey the truths of everyday life. And a diverse mix of creative expression in Athens County aspires to just that.”

“Not long ago, I posted about the subliminal arrow in the FedEx logo. I received several emails regarding it, including one from design student, Bobby Dragulescu. Thanks to Bobby and his typography professor Leah Hoffmitz, I was put in touch with the logo’s creator: Mr. Lindon Leader of Leader Creative. Lindon kindly agreed to the following interview, which is comprised of 8 fairly intelligent questions, and 3 fairly dopey ones…”

“Think magnum. Think over-sized. Think jumbo.†MyPublisher Deluxe is the Photo Book youíve all been waiting for. Each individual page is 12-inches tall and 16-inches wide. Thatís over twice the size of our original hardcover book! Itís poster-sized! Open the Deluxe up and it measures a full 32-inches wide. Thatís almost a full yard of vibrant, color photos!” (Thanks Dangerous Meta!)

“Esopus is a twice-yearly arts magazine featuring fresh, unmediated perspectives on the contemporary cultural landscape from artists, writers, filmmakers, playwrights, photographers, architects, designers, musicians, and other creative professionals. It includes long-form artistsí projects, critical writing, fiction, interviews, and, in each issue, a CD of specially commissioned music.”

“I’ve been a linguophile for a long time, and I’m always studying a little bit of some language or another. However, it’s only recently that I’ve finally figured out the way that works best for me, with the help of modern technology. Perhaps this might help those of you who have been planning on learning a language some day.”

“Fresh from BloggerCon III, Staci D. Kramer ponders the nature of journalists and bloggers — and the myth that†they are mutually exclusive. Plus: OJR Editor Robert Niles previews this weekend’s ONA conference.”

“Jeffrey Veen recently joked that ‘every consultant needs a Venn diagram.’ Turns out he was only half-kidding. The two or more overlapping circles that make up a Venn diagram are often used in mathematics to show relationships between sets. In the context of User Experience, however, Venn diagrams are frequently used to ‘quickly convey a message or vision, as a visual reminder to support change/focus, and to easily identify the cause or source of something.’î (Thanks kottke.org!)