The Extended Online Family - Product and Tool Siblings

Several years ago when asked to develop a logo for a startup and later their website - as their product was then still in definition - the project surfaced several interesting challenges.

Namely; How can you visually articulate the character of a brand in flux, and …

The Mechanical Spirit. Buoys and Meons

Reason is an ill fated lifeboat tossed within a creative sea.

Internet technology and the search for buouys
Manyyears ago a small island participated iwn a study. researchers fomr around the world convereged at once, taking its inhabitants by storm. All males above …

Web Marketing or Marching

This is a very basic review of web marketing, but as all good reviews go, avoiding assumptions provide review.

Taking a good look at site strategies, aside from SEO, there are a number of gadgets, strategies and embellishments employed to drive traffic to a …

Over Bodies do We Thrive - Africa

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Darfur is located in Sudan. And it is not.

It hangs in your bedroom. Drowns in your coffee. It is hung to dry as clothes and hats.

Darfur, and all of Africa is being eviscerated for the sake of the world. Though news agencies have begun …

Growing Interest and Mental Health

"Hello, thanks for coming in, please take a seat."

The interview and mental tape begin.

"I am stupid", begins the recent grad. "So much that I'll walk into Dailey the other day with an idea I knew would work, I mean you should see it, great creative. Almost sold …

Startup needs food. Will work for free.

In startup environments a question persists, funding. But why funding? That's been my questi8on as it seems ot be route these days. The have new words for it, Beta, Infusion, etc etc.

Isn't it called capital - at least in a traditionally speaking; buy or create …

Remove mouse. System shut down.

This article was posted recently introducing the concept of a mouse free world. Read on.

http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7508842.stm

"You even have emotive systems where you can wear a headset and control a computer by simply thinking and that's a device …

Scams and more scams...

There's a listing on Craigslist asking for bloggers to submit clogs.

The read is that you'll be contributing to the design community. After a few email exchanges it's come to my attention that this is another low level way for generating articles for later sales. …

UX Design, Depreciated Perspective Through 1's & 0's

Consider what knowledge is. It's information. It is fact. It is trivia. It is the aggregation of loose threads assembling interest. It is also imagination, consideration, and the cognitive processes of discovery and research.

Knowledge is also a noun, and as such …

Project Revital, look for it.

Project Revital

Homelessness is an instilled institution created to support a tier of our society. Its intent rakes of the populace those who have a deteriorating ability to survive. Its reason, to deplete their motivation. It marks and labels them as those who can …

Does anyone have the right to die

17 minutes. It takes a State seventeen minutes to execute a man. One may argue, ..and about a zillion dollars to keep him alive.

There area numerous arguments revolving around Capital punishment. Is it just? Is the person guilty? Is there any possibility, as it has …

Censorship

We need to be careful before we begin to loose the resource necessary to decide for ourselves. Information.

Sen. Joseph Lieberman recently endorse a measure requiring YouTube to remove all videos relating to Al-Queda training. I wanted to watch one - not to build a …

Where does it end

I see people by the color of my eyes. Sometimes they're black, dark, sinister, marauding. Others they're yellow, standoffish and rove like wild hyenas. They're also brown, usually drunk with little regard for my rights of possessions, health, family or safety.

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Chad Dressing Recipe for 2008

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Considering this election year and that events always transpire, Information will soon again have its expiration date. Although always present, it looses impact if stored. Immediately after discovery, it looses purpose if not applied. Managed …

Design is Dead

What is design?

Recalling a friend who would stop what he was doing, excited about having spotted yet another example of "design" the elixir of our profession floating about, shouting "There it is!" pointing towards a towel, rythymic background chatter, or the …

Insert Country Here

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I wrote this for a contest offered by Vanity fair some time ago, maybe 2, 3 years ago and have made some edits with a lil help from...

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By George Sandoval

What with our diverse cultural mix, the large influx of countless …

Transparent Dispair - Wellness in America

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Transparent Despair - Wellness in America

An improved health care system after four years still meanders through accountability. Not unlike the families that pace down hallways, within waiting rooms or driving absently along our roadways. …