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Exhibition proposals. These suffer from a lack of openness. This is an issue we are actively grappling with at our museum. We receive frequent inquiries from artists and community members about how thy might submit exhibition proposals for consideration by our institution. At many museums, the curatorial process is completely closed and undiscoverable–“don’t call us,…
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Personas: Dead yet? « User Experience Design Training & Consulting–UX Design Edge
Personas: Dead yet? « User Experience Design Training & Consulting–UX Design Edge If you do only five things: 1) Keep it simple and focused. Focus the persona on the design task at hand, not the target user’s entire life story. See what you can do with one page and at most two hours, using the…
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Photoshop CC: modest upgrades shackled to terrible “rental” model | Ars Technica
Photoshop CC: modest upgrades shackled to terrible “rental” model | Ars Technica There are probably a lot of you reading this who never actually got to look at the feature set of Photoshop CC because Adobe’s Creative Cloud licensing made it all a non-starter. Introduced with version CS6, the license initially debuted alongside the traditional…
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A video profile of Jan van Toorn — one of Holland’s most influential graphic designers. This profile is one of 100 video profiles of Dutch designers, fashion designers, and architects from the Dutch Profiles series. Dutch Profile: Jan van Toorn was produced by Submarine, Femke Wolting & Bruno Felix (via Jan van Toorn: OBlog: Design…
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explore-blog: explore-blog: The Roman Empire started this idea that you can have design elements, which could be propagated anywhere, and that you could reproduce the ideology of Rome all through the provinces. The Roman Empire literally made branding manuals for cities, for instance — how they should be organized, how they should be designed, how…
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Raph’s Website » Programming languages for aspiring designers
Raph’s Website » Programming languages for aspiring designers for aspiring videogame designers, it should be stipulated. nuggets of wisdom about motivation and reward.
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crazy beautiful papercraft boat from WindWaker (via Studio of M.M: King of Red Lions – Extras) click through for many more!
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It was no accident that the key reading material for Colombia’s intelligentsia during the late 50s and early 60s was a literary journal called Mito, or myth – what the nation needed was no less than a new origin story, a narrative refounding. In the visual arts, guided by Argentine-born critic and Bogotá-based über-curator Marta…
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Aristotle first identified the problem. Suppose your life is made up of things you do for the sake of something else — you do A in order to get B, and you do B only to get C, and so on. Therefore A has no value in itself; its value lies in the B. But…
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Michael Chabon once wrote that a baseball game was not so much a sporting event as ‘a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day’. Time to bake a loaf of bread – Sam Leith – Aeon