xBlog: The visual thinking weblog
4th October 2005

“Can you make the type bigger?”

“udging by the design blogs, the chatter at conferences and award ceremonies, and the rhetoric in the magazines, graphic design is a profession where insecurity and doubt are rife. Whenever graphic designers get together, the talk invariably gravitates towards the default topics of restrictive clients, inadequate remuneration and graphic design’s junior status in the contemporary media family… Yet it is one of graphic design’s oldest sources of discontent that causes the most pain, namely its vulnerability to client interference…”

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4th October 2005

bplusd: Business & Design

A new weblog: “The intersection of business and design, moving beyond form and function, design thinking, transforming experiences, transforming organizations, redesigning business as usual, reframing value, and more.”

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4th October 2005

Web Development Trends for 2006

“Curious about what technologies and techniques are going to be popular in the coming months and into the next year? Well, our crack team of editors here at dashes.com (that is to say, me) have assembled a list of up-and-coming trends that you should keep an eye on. Call it vocational education for people building Web 2.0.”

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4th October 2005

On-line Verb Conjugator

WebVerbix is a free on-line verb conjugator that conjugates verbs in 85 different languages.

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