Over the Transom – Vol. 4
A collection of follow-ups and links to some stories and developments that I found interesting or important in the past week, that I think you’ll find worth reading about too.…
8 Great Tools for Design & Productivity
For a bit of a change of pace, I thought I'd share some web-based design and productivity tools that I've found handy recently. The first three could be helpful to…
Cross Pollination
Every year beekeepers from across the United States truck their bees to almond groves in California, where up to 80% of the world's almonds are grown. In fact, at the…
THINK!
I used to work with a very astute site manager at the National Capital Commission (NCC) in Ottawa, Canada. He spent an inordinate amount of his time managing land-use, or…
How big is big enough?
Anybody who's been working in the Exhibit or Interpretation field for a while will agree with me on this - type sizes in graphics just keep on getting bigger. It's…
Fly with NYC Parks
Paula Scher of Pentagram has recently completed an update of New York City's Parks Department identity. It's really nice work, well thought out and beautifully presented, just as you would…
Magical Interpretation
The Harry Potter movies have always intrigued me with their imagining of one particular feature of the magical world - those newspapers with the moving pictures. The first time I…
EGD images
The Signage, Wayfinding, and Environmental Graphic Design Flickr group is a useful source of inspiration, with images from around the world. There's a mixture of photos and renderings, around 350 images…