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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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Deliver my books bitch.

on February 2nd, 2007 in Avenging, Books, Cornell, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Digital Library, Favorite Posts, Interface design, Librarianship, Tech, User Interface Design by | 13 Comments

I tried out Cornell Library’s book-delivery service this week. A nice stack of David Foster Wallace books quickly appeared at my workplace yesterday afternoon, and I got a friendly call when they arrived. If you are a Cornell student or staff, you can have library books delivered to any library-location…

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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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