In this video (from Lynda.com), Sean Adams shows how a layout would have been mocked up with a variety of traditional (non-digital) design tools.
McSweeney’s climate issue
McSWEENEY’S ISSUE 58: 2040 A.D. McSweeney’s 58 is wholly focusd on climate change, with speculative fiction from ten contributors, made in collaboration with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Global in scope, each story is set in the year 2040
“Boomerspeak” (WIRED)
Boomerspeak article in WIRED Watching boomerspeak distill and crystalize into a distinct genre this year can help us understand a bigger phenomenon: how distinctive ways of speaking bubble up into the popular consciousness and become available for commentary
Typography trends: didones
HERE’S THE TYPOGRAPHY OF THE NEXT DECADE: The age of font minimalism is coming to a close. The typography trend for 2020 = didones (an article by Rachel Hawley)
The Mundaneum
A familiar historical touchpoint for US scholars of the Web is Vannevar Bush’s Memex. Perhaps less well-known is the Mundaneum, in Belgium—a “paper Google.” Otlet and La Fontaine published their scheme in 1904 as the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC). It divides all
Christoph Niemann: a history of computing
From Christoph Niemann, a history of computing in 4 panels.
Stick figures in peril
Flickr photo pool: Stick Figures in Peril
Sara Hendren, Abler
Hear the DB|BD interview with Sara Hendren. Hendren teaches a course called “Investigating Normal.”
Climate change infographic
A mural on climate change, by illustrator Brian Rea. Debbie Millman interviews Rea on Design Matters.
Histories of punctuation
An essay by Cecelia Watson, in the Paris Review: “The Birth of the Semicolon.” The semicolon was born in Venice in 1494. It was meant to signify a pause of a length somewhere between that of the comma and that