spencercritchley.com Archives: May 2009
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31 May 2009
Warmer, Fuzzier – The Refreshed Logo
via nytimes.com A great peek into the thinking that goes into brand identities, and a real indicator of how times have changed: companies used to want to look like authorities, and now they want to look like friends. Posted via web from Spencer’s posterous
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28 May 2009
Google Wave Preview
via wave.google.com Tim O’Reilly: “Jens, Lars, and team re-imagined email and instant-messaging in a connected world, a world in which messages no longer need to be sent from one place to another, but could become a conversation in the cloud. Effectively, a message (a wave) is a shared communications space with elements drawn from email, [...]
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28 May 2009
Tiny Art Director
via tinyartdirector.blogspot.com A completely delightful blog: the Tiny Art Director is the artist’s somewhat demanding and temperamental young daughter. And yes, she is indistinguishable from many adult art directors. Posted via web from Spencer’s posterous
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25 May 2009
A List Apart: Articles: In Defense of Eye Candy
via alistapart.com A great post on why attractive design is more useful, by UI consultant Stephen P. Anderson. Emotions are not just the waste heat of cognition, they’re essential to cognition. So attractive products are not just “more fun” to use, they actually work better. Posted via web from Spencer’s posterous
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6 May 2009
Google Fellowship Applications for PdF 2009 Due Friday 5/8 | techPresident – http://bit.ly/190LTk
via techpresident.com “Are you an entrepreneur or activist with ideas about the next big thing to change government? A non-profit professional trying new technologies with great results? A former campaign staffer still blazing new trails in online politics? Google and Personal Democracy Forum are teaming up to offer registration fellowships that cover the full forum [...]