2008 Summer EGD workshop // 19 hours ago
Some screen grabs from the Summer EGD workshop at Kent State.
The post comes out dated but nice work everyone!
Pedestrian Campus Maps // 77 days ago
One of the results of last semester’s wayfinding seminar was recosideration of the campus pedestrian map. The primary objective was to break the campus into districts and a new map was only a piece of the puzzle. Reactions have generally been positive.
The legibility of this, still map in progress, is highlited when compared the the current map, which is not meant to exclusively function as a pedestrian map, but is de facto used as such (which is problematic because it does not feature acutual pedestrian paths).
Download the new map in pdf format; Print it; Disseminate it!
Comment [2]
Bruce Schneier: Are Photographers Really a Threat? // 77 days ago
Great article by Bruce Schneier for the Guardian on why photographers are perceived as threats:
Since 9/11, there has been an increasing war on photography. Photographers have been harrassed, questioned, detained, arrested or worse, and declared to be unwelcome. We’ve been repeatedly told to watch out for photographers, especially suspicious ones. Clearly any terrorist is going to first photograph his target, so vigilance is required.
Except that it’s nonsense. The 9/11 terrorists didn’t photograph anything. Nor did the London transport bombers, the Madrid subway bombers, or the liquid bombers arrested in 2006. Timothy McVeigh didn’t photograph the Oklahoma City Federal Building. The Unabomber didn’t photograph anything; neither did shoe-bomber Richard Reid. Photographs aren’t being found amongst the papers of Palestinian suicide bombers. The IRA wasn’t known for its photography. Even those manufactured terrorist plots that the US government likes to talk about — the Ft. Dix terrorists, the JFK airport bombers, the Miami 7, the Lackawanna 6 — no photography.
Given that real terrorists, and even wannabe terrorists, don’t seem to photograph anything, why is it such pervasive conventional wisdom that terrorists photograph their targets? Why are our fears so great that we have no choice but to be suspicious of any photographer?
Daily Digest // 82 days ago
New site to bookmark: DevKick.
DevKick assists web developers and designers in building modern web sites. [...] We listen to developers and designers all over the globe. We know there are so many talented people out there producing quality components, articles, tutorials and ideas and we hope to bring you all together to form a quality, high-end community that can take web development and design even further and stay one step ahead.
Click to flip // 83 days ago
So simple. So infectious! By Rafaël Rozendaal.
XO-2 // 92 days ago
Looks amazing today. I wonder if any manufacturers will actually copy the concept by 2010 when the laptop is due to ship. This (copying the laptop) is, according to Gizmodo, one of Negroponte’s objectives.
Daily Digest // 104 days ago
TypeSQL will present typefaces’ relationship in not only one typeface’s form, but social connection that typefaces have.
John Ressig (jQuery) ported Processing to Javascript using the canvas element. Wow.
The Most Post-Modern Site Ever // 112 days ago
Modernista. Their homepage is the Wikipedia article about them. Their portfolio is their Flickr stream. Their video portfolio is their YouTube stream. You can find their web work on their del.icio.us account. Their news come from a Google News search result page. Oh, yes. You can also copy their address to your clipboard with a click.
By the way, do websites need to look exactly the same in every browser?
VCD Seinor Show 2008 // 131 days ago
Their website is up. And the dates to see the work are:
Open Gallery: Tuesday April 15th – Friday 18th
10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
School of Art Gallery
Reception: Friday April 18th
6:00 PM
School of Art Gallery
Unfortunately, the show will be on exhibit only for 4 days, but congrats to seniors!
Mirko Ilić at Kent State // 145 days ago
Mark your calendars: Mirko Ilić is coming to Kent
Monday, April 7, 2008
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Copy/paste info: Mirko Ilic was born in Bosnia and illustrated and art directed posters, record covers and comics in Europe before moving to the U.S. in 1986. He has served as art director for the international edition of Time and The New York Times Op-Ed pages. In 1995, he established Mirko Ilic Corp., a graphic design and 3-D computer graphics and motion picture title studio. He is faculty member at the School of Visual Arts and is coauthor of the book Genius Moves: 100 Icons of Graphic Design, Handlettering in the Digital Age, both with Steven Heller, and Design of Dissent with Milton Glaser.
Comparisons // 145 days ago
Left: Honda CR-V; Right: Saturn VUE.
History Flow // 150 days ago
I have no idea whether this is any useful or not. I also loathe at the prospect of installing any input managers so this is not likely to ever run on my machine. But I have to admit, it looks pretty cool: History Flow.
Also, Anatomy of a Merger by Rob Giampierto.
