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Month: April, 2008

links for 2008-04-13

cityofsound: The street as platform (tags: design street architecture cities creative writing) Cool Infographics (tags: infographics design visualization information graphics)

links for 2008-04-12

Arthur Shapiro’s Illusions and Demonstrations for Vision Research (tags: illusion psychology science vision)

links for 2008-04-11

Campbell on Branding and Innovation this guy is awesome (tags: branding innovation marketing ideas design) The Impact of Branding on Behavior – Innoblog Interesting implications for the power of design to change consumer behavior

An update on things.

Sorry Ya’ll. I’ve been watching my repeat customers on my blog go down over the past few weeks as my posts have been less frequent. No excuse, I know, but I have been super busy with work (I’m taking 5 ID classes, including 3 workshops, and one B-school class, international business) I thought I’d at [...]

links for 2008-04-08

AP News : MySA.com (tags: shopping text amazon) Seed: Design and the Elastic Mind Paola Antonelli, Design and the Elastic Mind, MOMA, Seed magazine article “As science and technology accelerate the pace of society, design has become more and more integral to our ability to adapt to change. Indeed, in the past few decades people [...]

links for 2008-04-07

Inside Innovation with Colin Stewart » Blog Archive » 11 innovation lessons from creators of World of Warcraft – OCRegister.com (tags: innovation management strategy success)

links for 2008-04-03

SEOmoz | I’m Getting Pretty Tired of Startup Advice that Doesn’t Include Any Mention of SEO (tags: seo startup marketing tips keywords) 39 Creative Flash Designs | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine (tags: flash inspiration design) SIMILE | Timeline (tags: ajax timeline javascript web)

links for 2008-04-01

Wired 14.11: Very Short Stories (tags: writing fiction stories humor)