Allmusic for Windows Clicking on some deep links into allmusic.com tonight turned up this-
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posted by bendybendy
on Jul 12, 2004 -
47 comments
Un-Fold. (quicktime clip) City Magazine asked 9 designers, from 9 cities across the world to design a chair in 90 days. Oh, and it had to fit in a FedEx box.
Pics and
more about the designers and the project.
posted by madamjujujive
on Jun 18, 2004 -
26 comments
The wisdom of crowds and
the miracle of aggregation, arguably, are the reasons why
markets and
democracy work as well as they do. As
New Yorker James Surowiecki explains in his
new book, "consider the show
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. When a contestant on the show is stumped by a question, he has a couple of choices in asking for help: the audience or someone he's designated as an expert. The experts do a reasonable job: They get the answer right 65% of the time. But the audience is close to perfect: It gets the answer right 91% of the time, even though it's made up of people who have nothing better to do than sit in a TV studio and watch Regis Philbin."
The new, new tipping point?
posted by kliuless
on May 25, 2004 -
25 comments
It's New Blogger, launched today at 3pm, with a retooled interface, more rounded corners, single entry archives, comments,
user profiles, more template tags, mail-to-blog,
knowledge, and more. (Farewell,
good ol' black. We'll miss you.)
posted by brownpau
on May 9, 2004 -
83 comments
GUI Olympics! several corporate sponsors (ATI, nVidia, and others) are
offering up $15,000 in prize money for the best GUI skin any designer can come up with for a few applications. while i think it's great to push for newer and better user interfaces, who do
so many of the designs seem to be pushing complexity over useability? wouldn't a better use of a GUI design prize be to encourage people to improve on a design rather than make it unintelligible? maybe the people pushing the designs need to take
this quiz.
posted by caution live frogs
on Apr 23, 2004 -
18 comments
Designs on the White House --
an online design contest, judged by designers, celebrities, and activists. Winning designs will be available for resale on T-shirts and other products, and all proceeds after expenses will benefit the John Kerry Presidential campaign. Impressive list of judges, including (so far) Milton Glaser, Chip Kidd, Ed Schlossberg, Atrios, and Tom Tomorrow. Designs will be online throughout May, with your votes determining the finalists. (Kerry's
official shirts are lacking, imho)
Maybe campaign memorabilia always has been?
posted by amberglow
on Apr 22, 2004 -
9 comments
"Whether it is an impressionist masterpiece, or just wallpaper, if you take the colour juxtapositions and their proportions from nature, you won't go far wrong."
Choosing colours for web pages.
posted by reklaw
on Apr 11, 2004 -
10 comments
Survey of design salaries 2003 - how do you compare? The American Institute of Graphic Arts and Communication Arts team up to offer a white paper summary of national and regional salaries and benefits for web designers and developers, copywriters, art directors, print production managers, freelancers, and related positions. The survey is based on responses from 3,184 people in 17 job categories.
(28 page PDF)
posted by madamjujujive
on Mar 5, 2004 -
19 comments
You have been disciplined all your life :::: Nothing Changed - Nothing Will
Words of encouragement from Piotr Szyhalski's
Electric Poster Series (Animated gif images). Artist's web site
here.
posted by taz
on Dec 4, 2003 -
12 comments
Dezain.net is a weblog about design by Eizo Okada, with links to architecture, furniture, textiles, and other designalicious stuff.
posted by carter
on Oct 26, 2003 -
4 comments
exploring color ... online utility to help room designers (and maybe even web designers) choose the right color for their project.
posted by crunchland
on Oct 24, 2003 -
13 comments
"pleix is a virtual community of digital artists based in paris. some of us are 3d artists, some others are musicians or graphic designers. this website is the perfect place to share our latest creations." [note: quicktime]
posted by crunchland
on Oct 17, 2003 -
4 comments
Wisconsin has picked its quarter design! Gov. Jim Doyle Tuesday overruled an advisory panel and told the U.S. Mint to put a cow, wheel of cheese and ear of corn on Wisconsin's commemorative quarter, despite fears that it won't reflect the state's cities or its rich ethnic heritage
posted by Durwood
on Oct 1, 2003 -
34 comments
Is This All There Is To Modern Design? Although
Design Within Reach is a commercial website, it's well put together, with
interesting features that provide
biographies and a a potted history of modern furniture design. However, like the plethora of coffee-table books on the subject, the uncomfortable (!) feeling remains that it crystalizes the accepted and the historical - the so-called
modern classics - rather than engage with what is truly contemporary. This is, after all, highly
traditional modernism and post-modernism. And it's
rife. Where is the avant-garde? Is there one on view to ordinary mortals? You end up feeling that the truly new designs - this century's, after all - are being swept under the carpet, awaiting some boring committee process of consensus and approval.
posted by MiguelCardoso
on Sep 29, 2003 -
35 comments
