…or “Why You Need a Graphic Designer” The book’s title caught my eye instantly.  ”Visual Literacy”  Intriguing.  I took it home, and over the next few days, I learned just how blind I was to the art of visual communication. Completely illiterate. The book begins with exercises: “By using four black squares of the same [...]

(because it’s not mine!) Many of you might have received an email about a birthday party scheduled for tonight.  Hopefully you’re not planning on coming because the party isn’t mine — it’s actually a humorous misunderstanding caused by an overly aggressive planning web service. Perhaps you’re familiar with Plancast.com – ’foursquare for the future.’  Well, last week I received a [...]

Every year at Thanksgiving, alumni of Friends’ Central School flock home.  They drop by campus and visit their old classrooms and teachers.  And every year I go back, I’m struck by a single realization: so little has changed. It’s been over six years since I graduated from FCS, a small and intimate Quaker high school [...]

Image by exepotes via Flickr Research In Motion’s new mobile application store will launch tomorrow at the CTIA Wireless trade show.  RIM’s Blackberry devices have twice the market share of Apple’s iPhone (19.5% versus 10.7%), so this is an exciting and potentially lucrative new distribution channel for app developers. RIM will enforce a $3 minimum [...]

I recently saw a Dove advertisement on Hulu which compared dove soap to normal soap: If you could see the difference, you’d see soap leaves an invisible layer of scum on your skin… Dove leaves no soap scum Then, the scene suddenly switches to ultraviolet-murder-scene-lighting to reveals a woman covered with soap scum.  The ad [...]