Archive of Graphic Design

The Typography of Greenwashing

on January 10th, 2010 in Favorite Posts, Graphic Design, Music by | 4 Comments

Instead of watching House episodes all day like a normal person, I spent one of my vacation days making a video about the media practice of greenwashing. According to the world’s only remaining viable encyclopedia, greenwashing is the “practice of companies disingenuously spinning their products and policies as environmentally friendly.”…

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Fonty goodness

on April 19th, 2005 in Cat, Graphic Design by | 4 Comments

I’m shopping for fonts this morning. I work in a library with a font budget. Life is good. I’m torn between Saint Louis and Bodega Serif. Slow wave is a comic strip made out of people’s dreams. Here’s a librarian one. Incidentally, this morning I had a dream that I…

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Counterweight to snark

on February 8th, 2005 in ALA, Avenging, Digital Library, Graphic Design, Tech, User Interface Design by | 8 Comments

I’m typing with my face today due to a stupidity-induced thumb injury from, I think, painting my basement. Homeowners beware. In the meantime, just to show that I’m not all thorns and lemons, here are some good websites. Good in that attainable way. You will notice that these are mostly…

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More on lousy digital library design

on February 6th, 2005 in ALA, Avenging, Digital Library, Graphic Design, Interface design, Tech, User Interface Design by | 26 Comments

Thanks for all of the kind comments on the previous post. They really helped balance the freaking out I had to do when a kind well-meaning soul posted this link as an example of a REALLY GOOD children’s website. Ok. Let’s go through this again. Slowly. This time I’m going…

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Designing for hyper-attentive cyborg children

on January 25th, 2005 in Avenging, Children's Librarianship, Favorite Posts, Graphic Design, Interface design, Librarianship, Tech, User Interface Design by | 9 Comments

I got this in my email today: What children can teach us: Lessons learned from the trenches of digital libraries “…developing digital libraries that support young people in querying, browsing, and reading scanned materials.” It all sounds very impressive until you click the link. Look at that thing! It’s like…

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