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Western Washington University Talk
Thanks to the students and faculty of Western Washington University for inviting me to speak last night on my design practice at mod7.
Design Thievery, or Design Inevitability?
I realize that this article is about more than the SearchMash ”controversy”, but I want to comment on that aspect for a moment and leave the explicit thieves aside for now…
Design is meant to be consumed. When we create “designs”, we are communicating to an audience. For effective communication to take place, we need to communicate using forms and modes that are in keeping with the visual language of the audience which we are communicating with.
L.A.S.E.R. Tag
A giant projector? Really? That’s it? Awesome!
http://wilarndt.com/#video (thanks, Steve).
And check out the open source-inspired how to and source code.
Un-related: Let’s cover buildings with silkscreen glow-in-the-dark ink and give everyone UV LEDs…
Fight the Power, Arrogant Apple
(Photo from http://www.newlaunches.com/)
Dear Steve Jobs:
Did you know this is the age of Web 2.0? Mash-ups, multi/cross-posting, distributed computing, virtual storage, shared media, crap loads of video, and consumer choice… this is reality today. You even use YouTube and Google Maps as services on your iPhones.
Yet, if you know this, then why is my iPhone crippled unless I use a hack to reclaim it? If I want to use my iPhone as a PDA, sans-AT&T, I should be able to.
And how come I lose my entire non-backed-up iTunes library if my computer crashes? Even your smaller competitors let me download my music again if I lose it.
Otherwise, you guys rock. Thanks for listening, most of the time.
Typetester
Typetester is an awesome tool–a must for XHTML/CSS-heads–created by Marko Dugonjic. Also, make sure you check out his explanation for using the base font/ems approach. Very flexible and smart.