21st
February
2008
“Pacifists and war protesters all over the world wear peace signs on shoulder bags and jeans jackets. But only few know what the symbol really means, and where it came from.
Exactly fifty years ago British designer Gerald Holtom created what would become the international peace symbol. On February 21, 1958 the Royal College of Art trained artist designed a logo for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the start of the British peace movement.”
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21st
February
2008
Paula Scher: “I don’t see very many speakers from the advertising community invited to speak at design conferences (except for the very few who lead branding groups at agencies and in some circles they are still considered the enemy). I don’t read about it on design blogs, and I’m not seeing books published about it. I’m not seeing advertising, in any form, turn up in any design museum exhibitions, not at the Modern, not at the Cooper-Hewitt.” (Thanks kottke.org!)
posted in Advertising, Graphic design | Permalink |
21st
February
2008
“Swift-3D is a system for visually surfing datasets of hundreds of millions of items, with the full data available for answering queries down to individual records. Swift has a high-interaction visual interface constructed from 3D maps, 2D charts, tables, and network diagrams.”
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