“I’ve enjoyed looking at well-executed pictures since childhood. But I’m surprised I didn’t curb this early enthusiasm, especially as a youth. You see, youth is when one is most susceptible to subtle pressures in the form of High Culture expectations regarding Proper Art Consumption…”

“You’ve probably seen those small buttons that are linking to RSS feeds, the Xhtml Friends Network, GeoURL, etc. on many blogs and other sites… Usually, these buttons are statical GIF or PNG images. However, in this article you will learn how to create them using the Web standards XHTML and CSS. First of all, you need some markup.”

“The most common question we get: ‘What is the font used for the credits at the bottom of a movie poster?’ The short answer: There is no one particular font used for movie poster credits.”

“I had an epiphany at about twenty years of age, a true momentary epiphany. It had nothing to do with making things understandable for the world. It had to do with my own ignorance. Everything comes from that terrifying moment, that milli-second, that terrifying moment of utter truth that I understood that I understood nothing.” (Thanks InfoDesign!)

“VisualMente today reports on a Dallas Morning News graphic about a NASCAR hauler that was on the verge of winning a silver award at the SND competition when one of the judges noticed that incorporated into the graphic was the logo of NewTek, a company that makes the 3-D program Lightwave. The entry was disqualified. Judges say they thought it crossed an ethical line, and Morning News staffers say they were just trying to add logos to give the illustration a sense of the reality of a heavily sponsor-driven sport.” (More at VisualMente and Visual Editors.)

“Back when I was first paid to build web-based applications (around 1998 or so), the world of Web Development as we know it today did not exist. When I began working my first post-college full-time job, things had improved a bit. I learned all that fancy JavaScript, VBScript, Applets, and ActiveX stuff. But I couldn”t really put it to use because the cross-platform and cross-browser support was horrible. I swore off DHTML and went on with life, focusing more on the backend and server side stuff (Perl, Oracle/MySQL, etc).”

“Between them Jonathan and Tobias have designed some very visible typefaces that have had lasting cultural impact. In 1994 Tobias designed Interstate, based on the lettering used on us highway signs; and Hoefler’s eponymous text family has been a default on the Apple computer operating system since System 7 was launched.” (Thanks kottke.org!)

“Most photography books concentrate on the optical, mechanical, electronic, and chemical tools of photography. Other books are about various photographic subjects and genres. Photographer + Camera + Subject = Photograph. What about you? This book is about the most important factor in your photography: you.”

“Type the URI of a page … and submit it to see what colors it uses…”

“This is an example of linking to specific states within rich internet applications. Note that the application states are described with # anchors at the end of the URL just like specific locations in an HTML page. As the state in the application changes, the URL updates and can be bookmarked to return to that particular state. In this example, each photo represents one of five different application states in Flash…” (Thanks Andre!)

“Something I’d like to see: reporting on IA failures, and what was learned from the carnage. Failure stories are a literary genre in and of themselves; even the most dispassionate, technical ones are hard to put down. That’s what makes them such great learning tools.”

“Let’s be frank right off the bat: I don’t presume to be a typographer, or even anything close to an expert with a replete knowledge of typography and its history. Instead, I take a more practical approach to typeface selection, given the environment I’m generally in rarely requires that I need to complicate the process further.”

“Some time ago I came across the Best of ResFest DVD series. On Vol. 3 there was this 15-minute long documentary with the most unusual title: The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal. Being a graffiti writer myself, I was immediately intrigued. Written and directed by Matt McCormick, a filmmaker from Portland, Oregon, this ethereal short film from 2001 documents the seemingly mundane job of graffiti removal…”

“Inspired by Manovich’s definition of information aesthetics, this weblog explores the symbiotic relationships between creative design and the field of information visualization, in what could be coined as ‘creative information visualization’.”

“In many visual seminars at Poynter, we talk about design rules that don’t make sense. These myths are picked up along the way, like rotten fruit, as people move from paper to paper. Once a seed takes root, it can be very difficult to get rid of it. These myths can be funny and frustrating. Funny because someone actually believes that readers notice that two headlines are butting up against each other. Frustrating because time is wasted by worrying about things that don’t matter when crafting better content is more important. Here are a few popular myths you may have encountered.”