Solar Electric Vehicle

Take a look at this student project in search for alternative powered vehicles.

"The Solar Electric Vehicle Team is a recognized student organization at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working under the auspices of the Edgerton Center."

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Check out this new digital form of narrative

Dreaming Methods
Creative writing fused with new media

"Concept
Dreaming Methods projects are created as an exploration into innovative new approaches to writing. They use the unique potential of the internet and multimedia to blend unusual, creative narratives with other art forms. ..."

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Digital Billboard Up Ahead: New-Wave Sign or Hazard?

By LOUISE STORY
Published: January 11, 2007
Billboard companies are adopting digital technology that rotates advertiser images every six or eight seconds — the better to catch the eye.
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Typies: a blog of typography and graphic design

the whole blog is about fonts: http://www.typies.blogspot.com/

Posted by Brian Ashe

"Nine skills that separate good and great designers."

Some of you have probably already seen this. I'll list them here and my favorites are marked with ***.

Good Designers
Decorate
"Less" is more
Fix problems
Inspire by genre
Everything at once
Treat text as content
Use good typefaces
Code for one instance
Redesign

Great Designers
Communicate ***
"Less" and "more" co-exist
Prevent ***
Inspired by total environment
Selective iteration
Treat text as UI ***
Use good typography ***
Use good typography ***
Code for many instances
Realign

By Cameron Moll. Read more...

Posted by Brian Ashe

Typical article about type on the web

"Web Design is 95% Typography
95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography." By Oliver Reichenstein.

What's important to me is to note that even type snobs aren't perfect: though he yearns for the day of the professional typesetter, he doesn't code carefully or proofread--otherwise he would have noticed his site says "Make sure you readthis article as well." with no space between 'read' (plain text) and 'this' (which is the first word in a link.)

Always fun to take these guys down a notch or two. :-)

Plus this guy needs to hang out with grammar snobs more: he's got lots of things that should be hyphenated by aren't, etc.

Posted by Brian Ashe

Helvetica: The Movie

Helvetica is a documentary about Typography, Graphic Design and the role Design plays within our culture. Read more about it here.