N O U N : A design blog by Oliver Oike

Cute. More here. Or download the entire PDF for handy reference in times of anxiety.

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“At 8:15 am on August 6th in 1945, the Atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. And on August 6th, 2005, at 8:15 in the morning, 60 years after the bomb , we will look back on what had happened on that morning and at the same time, we will think of the future. This project [...]

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“The Netscape IPO wasn’t really about dot-commerce. At its heart was a new cultural force based on mass collaboration. Blogs, Wikipedia, open source, peer-to-peer – behold the power of the people.” By Kevin Kelly Related Info: Mosaic adopts “Netscape” as it’s new name (1994) From Fortune’s latest Issue: Remembering Netscape: The Birth of the Web

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Sitting in front of the computer, launching the same applications day in, day out, I realized this morning that I have subconsciously become aware of a great number of people who develop the tools we depend on to earn our living. Maybe we take them for granted, as they’re just names on a screen… but [...]

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The Complete Calvin and Hobbes (Hardcover) by Bill Watterson

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I’ll race you to the end of the list! (“Yeah, right”, you’re thinking, “I know YOUR reading history, dude.”)

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Noun is the industry leader of leading-edge architectures. We will step up our ability to engage without reducing our capability to visualize. If all of this seems improbable to you, that’s because it is! What does it really mean to optimize “intra-efficiently”? Imagine a combination of XSL and XSLT. It seems discombobulating, but it’s realistic! [...]

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A new type collective, featuring work by Rick Valicenti and Keith Tam (ECIAD alumni – woohoo!).

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Evan Roth is sickenly talented. I saw him speak at FITC this year and left feeling sorry for myself. His Graffiti Analysis project (part of his Master’s at Parsons) is brilliant. He blogs on a regular basis here, and has done some great guerilla activism pranks.

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