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November 10, 2008

Early Star Wars Storyboards

“These are early storyboards from Star Wars, from before the Falcon was changed to its current design. I took them from Hyperspace’s Insider supplement, which means there’s more to be had in Insider. I’ll try and pick them up and see what this is about… To my knowledge, the majority of these storyboards were done by Joe Johnston.”

Posted by Bill Keaggy on Monday, November 10th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Archived in Movies & motion, Sketching & illustration | Comments Off



FOWD: Paul Boag of Headscape: Educating clients to say yes

Paul Boag‘s presentation on how to Educate Clients to say Yes was fantastic and my personal highlight of today’s conference. Paul had a superbe stage presence, engaging slides, and most of all, his message was clear and valuable.

So, how do we get clients to say yes? It’s all in our way how we connect and interact. Paul kept stressing that the designer’s relationship with clients is fundamentally flawed. We have to face it that a big part of our job is to work,”

Posted by Bill Keaggy on Monday, November 10th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
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Gerd Arntz Web Archive: Isotype

“The International System Of TYpographic Picture Education was developed by the Viennese social scientist and philosopher Otto Neurath (1882-1945) as a method for visual statistics. Gerd Arntz was the designer tasked with making Isotype’s pictograms and visual signs. Eventually, Arntz designed around 4000 such signs, which symbolized keydata from industry, demographics, politics and economy.”

Posted by Bill Keaggy on Monday, November 10th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Archived in Graphic design, Logos & symbols, Visual thinking | Comments Off



Drupal.org, Design Iterations, and Designing in the open

“It’s been a good while since I announced we’re working on the redesign of Drupal.org. Two months, a couple of presentations, and seven iterations of the prototype later, a glimmer is at the end of the tunnel.

On thing is for sure, in this instance, Design by Community works.

I said, when we embarked on the process of designing this site, that Design by Community is the only way we could approach it. Since those initial thoughts, Leisa and I have continued to push a process that many thought would fall flat on its face. I’m not sure if this would be specific to the Drupal community, but they couldn’t have been more wrong. This process is working, and really well.”

Posted by Bill Keaggy on Monday, November 10th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Archived in Software & technology, Web design & dev | Comments Off



Kronos video

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Check out this video we made for Kronos to help celebrate International Women's Day, 2011. Learn more in this xBlog post or jump over to YouTube and watch it there.

Azure poster

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XPLANE | Dachis Group developed a A vibrant, engaging poster showing how Microsoft Azure enables developers to run applications and store data on Microsoft servers. The poster recently took top honors in the American Business Awards.

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