February 2012
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ANNALS OF IDEAS GROUPTHINK - The brainstorming... →
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“Paper Wants Grey Noise, the Screen Doesn’t
Paper brochures are expected to be...”
– Information Architects – Why is Simple so Difficult?
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“Don’t tell us scrolling is bad
Because then all websites are bad. There is...”
– Information Architects – The 100% Easy-2-Read Standard
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(via Instapaper) →
Instapaper’s most liked articles, as determined by Twitter.
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WatchOpen Design for Organizational Innovation
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Watch(Un)happy Valentine’s Day everyone
(via Dane Cook on Love: A Typographic Exploration)
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“Don’t be yourself. Be someone a little nicer.”
– Mignon McLaughlin
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"How To Be Emotionally Stable Without Getting... →
via Brain Pickings
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Linotype: The Film →
linotypefilm.com
Film Screenings World Premiere – New York City, New York Friday, February 3, 2012 – 7:00 PM SVA Theatre – 23rd & 8th Ave. in Chelsea Q&A session after the film with the director, film crew and specal guests from the film.…
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WatchMisery Guts
The story of a miserable girl who has to deal with the ground trying to swallow her up.
(via Misery Guts on Vimeo)
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“Just did the most stereotypical designer thing: Stared at a design for a couple...”
– Don Lehman [@afterschool]
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“I even overheard a conversation about one lady who had just bought her first...”
– Shawn Blanc
January 2012
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WatchThe Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
Inspired, in equal measures, by Hurricane Katrina, Buster Keaton, The Wizard of Oz, and a love for books, “Morris Lessmore” is a story of people who devote their lives to books and books who return the favor. Morris Lessmore is a poignant, humorous allegory about the curative powers of story. Using a variety of techniques (miniatures, computer...
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WatchCosmic Art - Part 1 of 2 (by R Smittenaar)
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WatchSatori (by Abhilasha Dewan)
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A wireframe kit for Google Drawings and 5 reasons... →
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Switching from "OS Mind" to "OS Soul"
Migrate to OS Soul
I was using OS Mind for quite a while, but the results are very unsatisfactory. Now I try to migrate the whole system to OS Soul and it already seems to work much better! It’s much more intuitive and faster.
Deinstalling OS Mind
The only problem is, it’s a little difficult to deinstall OS Mind completely from the system. I will give the deinstaller tool, called...
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Think More about Click-Throughs, less about SEO
Meta description tags, while not important to search engine rankings, are extremely important in gaining user click-through from search engine result pages (SERPs). These short paragraphs are webmasters opportunity to advertise content to searchers and let them know exactly what the given page has with regard to what they’re looking for. SEOmoz
The meta description tag won’t help you rank,...
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WatchIf i…
a short film
by Tim Brown
If i is a project that explores the idea of a young woman with an over exaggerated sense of imagination. The character poses a series of rhetorical questions to the viewer that she then tries to visualize by any means possible.
(by Tim Brown)
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Don't waste your Monday
Remember this short sentence on the coming Monday [btw., it works fine on other days too] and make sure you don’t waste time [yes, you have to figure out for yourself what this means, but this actually the fun part of the process] and focus on being happy.
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WatchWhat makes you happy?
A short film
(by Jon Rawlinson)
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WatchExist - Beautiful Animation Video
“It is piece, as same time it is ensemble, all are parts of existence ofthe world.”
EXIST (by niiyama)
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WatchAnimations of unseeable biology
We have no ways to directly observe molecules and what they do — Drew Berry wants to change that. At TEDxSydney he shows his scientifically accurate (and entertaining!) animations that help researchers see unseeable processes within our own cells.