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austinkleon: The Sketchbook of Susan Kare, the Artist Who Gave Computing a Human Face This is a wonderful piece on the iconographer who designed the early icons for Apple. First note: Kare created a lot of these digital symbols on paper—on cheap, simple paper. Inspired by the collaborative intelligence of her fellow software designers, Kare…
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Wireframe prototyping on iOS
Wireframe prototyping on iOS immerseyoursoulincode: It basically lets you string together wireframe sketches into prototypes that you can tap though on iOS devices. I’ll let you know what I think after I try it — whether I will be using this for my own projects or will continue to put these together in XCode. I…
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Tom Morris: Why WebFonts matter
Tom Morris: Why WebFonts matter tommorrisdotorg: I want to share a font that changed my life. This is a paragraph from this page on Malayalama Wikipedia. The article is about Simone de Beauvoir. (You could tell, right?) I listen in on the web design community. It’s often very interesting, but can be a little bit…
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Daily Papert: Change or Die
“It is obvious that schools are lagging behind deep changes in our society. They are still organized on the model of production line factories. The deepest reason for the lag is neither the lack of physical technology nor the ability of educators to understand its meaning. The biggest reason is the built-in self-preservationist conservatism of…
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The Federal war on drugs is a total failure… and undermines our civil liberties. Ron Paul (via kateoplis)
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Design Think: The contract
Design Think: The contract design-think: Recently, as I’ve got more clients and begun to take on more freelance work, I’ve needed to up my game in the paperwork department. In the past I’ve relied less on this, but the more clients I get, and the larger prospective projects that land in my inbox, the more…
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newyorker: Kalle Lasn and Micah White, the Creators of Occupy Wall Street Kalle Lasn spends most nights shuffling clippings into a binder of plastic sleeves, each of which represents one page of an issue of Adbusters, a bimonthly magazine that he founded and edits. It is a tactile process, like making a collage, and occasionally…
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Woody Allen: Science Fiction Filmmaker
Woody Allen: Science Fiction Filmmaker austinkleon: @MattThomas: “Wherein I agree with Harlan Ellison that Woody Allen may be the premier science fiction filmmaker of our time.” Great argument.
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Please, dear College Presidents, stop sending for the police. Our students face a difficult enough future. This should not be a time to beat them up, to spray them with mace or pepper juice, to kick and hit them. We are at a turning point, and leadership is required to prevent disaster. We need to…
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The End of Cheap Coffee: Why the Diner Staple Is About to Become a Luxury – Lifestyle – GOOD
The End of Cheap Coffee: Why the Diner Staple Is About to Become a Luxury – Lifestyle – GOOD