Gene Moy (梅忠毅) is a user experience architect in Chicago with 12 years experience working on the web. He sometimes thinks every day feels like 1995 all over again. More about Gene »
Maybe you all have seen this site, Design Can Change, from SmashLab in Vancouver, but I just tripped over it the other day. It’s a good read, and I think we’re all looking at ways to make changes as we can in the work we do.
A new society will require all kinds of people, [...]
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By way of my colleague Mark. Wholeheartedly agree.
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A remarkable memorial to the fallen.
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One last thing before I pass out tonight: one of the developers on a team working adjacent to ours has this screensaver on his laptop and it’s been catching my eye for a few months now, but, have silently admired it from, uh, five feet away. I need no longer do so because of my [...]
Hilarious.
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Is there such a thing as Chinese design?
Of course there is design produced by Chinese, either Americans of Chinese descent or Chinese in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taiwan, or Singapore. That is Chinese design after a fashion. But is there a vernacular we can call Chinese design? What makes it so?
I would aver, as the exhibit [...]
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While I’m busy processing my thoughts about the Chinese Design Everyday exhibit, now on its last days (closes April 13) at the Design Exchange in Toronto, I’ll throw this out there.
On a trek through that stretch of Queen St West in Toronto that’s been dubbed the Art & Design District I wandered into the tiny [...]
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With nothing more about the candidates to discuss, and, after the Diddy/Tupac fiasco, certainly no capability to discuss, the LA Times is focusing on the typefaces of the candidates’ campaigns.
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I know I promised to take the food blog stuff out of EID here, but, words cannot describe, so I’m just going to link to it and hope for the best. Monica Eng brings raccoon to Homaru Cantu, the engineer-chef of Chicago’s famed Moto, and he creates a miniature roadkill scene from it. Enjoy.
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Was going through a pile of newspapers the other day and found this really interesting infographic on the redesign of Cleveland area gas bills, thanks to the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s John Funk. The Cleveland Plain Dealer, believe it or not, kicks major ass when it comes to infographics. Check it out.
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