From the monthly archives:

September 2008

Put In A Different Context, Something Becomes Extraordinary

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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1rZqw5bXb4] I first saw this clip by EepyBird in a post over on The Digital Sanctuary followed it to its source. I enjoyed it enough to want to share it here.  And I wanted to add the thought that everything we consider ordinary, such as a pad of sticky notes, had a unique origin. Whether [...]

Design Priority Is Another Casualty in the Banking Industry

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  Washington Mutual understood the important of design in reaching out to its customer base. We won’t see these kind of graphics in a Chase branch office. I went into my WaMu branch this afternoon to make a deposit and found that all was business as usual. As I stood in the surprisingly short teller [...]

For What It’s Worth: A Designer’s Value

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Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producing effects without substance, form without relevant content, or content without meaningful form.   -Paul Rand  There are those who know how to write code for a web site, but not how to design one. Technical know-how does not make one a designer, just as [...]