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albotas: A Little Bit on the Sketchy Side: Brian Joseph Davis has had the ingenious idea of having police composite sketching software draft up literary characters. Check out a sketch of Hiro Protagonist from Neil Stephenson’s Snow Crash. I like being able to see if a character’s composite sketch looks anything like I imagined. It’s also cool…
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According to the Pew Research Center, newspapers in the U.S. lost $10 in print advertising revenue for every $1 in online advertising they gained in 2011… In absolute terms, the industry saw online ad revenue grow by approximately $207m last year while print ad revenue dropped by approximately $2.1bn. Are newspapers in the US doomed? …
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curiositycounts: From Ben Franklin to Bauhaus and beyond, a detailed infographic telling the story of the world’s most important typefaces. (via)
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Design Think: On columns in InDesign
Design Think: On columns in InDesign design-think: Once you have set up your grid in InDesign, there are two choices for setting columns of text using the grid as a guide: manually with text running across multiple text frames (option A) and automatically with the ‘number of columns’ tool (option B). I suppose there’s no…
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thedocumentarian: Room 666, Wim Wenders (1982) Wenders set up a static camera in room 666 of the Hotel Martinez and provided selected film directors a list of questions to answer on the future of cinema. Features Goddard, Fassbinder, Herzog, Wenders, Antonioni and Spielberg amongst others. Kudos to Ben Reed (Source: http://vimeo.com/)
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Scratch is an early computer language learning environment enabling young beginners to get results without having to learn syntactically correct writing first. Created by the MIT Media Lab, it is intended to motivate for further learning through playfully experimenting and creating projects, such as interactive animations etc. scratch.mit.edu (via lifeandcode)
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newshouramgrad: For students with learning disabilities, iPads and digital audio programs are able to help them perform at their grade level.
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Do not pretend that you are advancing game studies in any way [by defining “game”]. You are more likely to be holding it back. Chris Bateman (via notgames)
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To use App Inventor, you do not need to be a professional developer. This is because instead of writing code, you visually design the way the app looks and use blocks to specify the app’s behavior. App Inventor looks a lot like Scratch for grownups. (via lifeandcode)