This is a list of international corporations and the fonts used in their identity and branding systems. (Thanks kottke.org!)

Over at XPLANE founder Dave Gray’s blog we see some slides from Ryan Coleman talking about visual thinking: “Using a visual approach to facilitate the thought process.”

“From navigating the Web in entirely new ways to seeing where in the world twitters are coming from, data visualization tools are changing the way we view content. We found the following 16 apps both visually stunning and delightfully useful.” (Thanks Mapping-news.com!)

Ajax scripts demos and downloads from Florentin Sardan.

“Passion is not enthusiasm. It is not love. It is not enjoyment, and it is not flow. Passion is an unstoppable overflowing of emotion that destroys in its satisfaction, that torpedoes lives and marriages and nations, that shoots husbands or coworkers or strangers in rage. It is the hot lava of the soul, and it burns what it pours over. It is not the positive team-building thing your sup­ervisor would have you believe. Passion causes wars and brutal killings and divorces, and has astronauts wearing Depends and the headmistresses of girls’ schools going to jail, and gets husbands run over in parking lots. To say that a bunch of software engineers or graphic designers are passionate about their work is to try to interject sex and confusion and addiction and desire into a kind of work that is essentially asexual, organized, left brain, and sober.”

“A JavaScript class for dynamically striping HTML data tables.”

“Out of every design-related article and blog entry written over the past few years, very few have tackled the “taboo” topic of money — namely how much to charge for creative work. There are thousands of articles about CSS best practices but when it comes down to paying bills or putting food on the table, work-for-hire designers are on their own.”

“I was recently asked to be one of the judges in a photography contest run by Crestock… When it comes to this competition, it works like this: As one of the judges, I choose the 10 photographs I like best. For round 1, that meant choosing 10 out of 491 photographs. In other words, for every 50 photos, I can only choose one. Words can’t describe quite how difficult that is: A lot of talent and creativity goes into competition entries, and a lot can be said about… the guys at Crestock were quite helpful in offering guidelines and ideas as to what I should be looking for, it got me a-thinking: What can you, as a photographer, do to maximise your chances in the battle of shutter times and lighting, against the rest of the pack?”

“This is E Logo Design’s list of best logo design tutorials on the internet (in no particular order).” (Note: These tutorials are more about some of the craft that can play into making a logo. -bk)

“Kevin Ham is the most powerful dotcom mogul you’ve never heard of, reports Business 2.0 Magazine. Here’s how the master of Web domains built a $300 million empire.”

“One-Sheeters are quick and easy marketing tools for information architects. They’re like mini brochures to advertise IA deliverables and promote the IA practice in your company. One-Sheeters help people envision what deliverables you produce and where they fit into a project. They’re quick to produce and easy for anyone to understand.”

“‘When a person is in a space with a 10-foot ceiling, they will tend to think more freely, more abstractly,’ said Meyers-Levy. ‘They might process more abstract connections between objects in a room, whereas a person in a room with an 8-foot ceiling will be more likely to focus on specifics.’” (Thanks kottke.org!)

“How Products Are Made explains and details the manufacturing process of a wide variety of products, from daily household items to complicated electronic equipment and heavy machinery. The site provides step by step descriptions of the assembly and the manufacturing process (complemented with illustrations and diagrams) Each product also has related information such as the background, how the item works, who invented the product, raw materials that were used, product applications, by-products that are generated, possible future developments, quality control procedures, etc.”

“On real journalism vs. opinion: ‘There’s a very talented, hard-working press corps and, of course, it represents only a small fraction of the people who are doing [journalism]. I think all the major newspapers are doing it well. Not a single one is doing it badly, the ones that are committing resources to it. The larger fraction are the parasites, the bloggers, commentators, opinionizers — I don’t exempt myself — who are feeding off of the real news that the press is providing. That larger sort of commentariat is not doing a very good job.’”

“Grid based design for websites is becoming more popular, but the technique is till somewhat unknown. Design By Grid is a resource to promote websites design with grids, and the tools and techniques used to make websites with grids.”