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I love the digital displays at the Ron Arad exhibition, which has just opened at the Barbican Art Gallery. The ethereal images which float across the screens are a beautiful counterpoint the the translucent physicality of the displays themselves, and of course to the rugged elegance of Ron Arad's... read more

tags: design, digital, exhibition, Gallery, installation, motion, screen

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Surfing the web without clicking your mouse? Interesting test site which weighs up the case for navigation without mouse clicks... read more

tags: accessibility, click, design, design, interface, mouse, navigation, web

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File this one under 'online tools for web designers'. its a useful resource to help calculate the optimum size for your web designs. It factors in screen sizes and browser borders (or chromes) and gives you a set of sizes and the amount of users you can expect to hit. Wont be big news to most ... read more

tags: community, design, digital, education

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We wanted to do a movie of my head introducing my website.. with some calming music.. the antithesis of say a blaring rock track from a myspace site. Paul Beatles came up with this simple idea. I programmed the music and obviously did the voice.. it really personalises and relaxes the site read more

tags: Animation, audio, claming, design, effect, fun, head, introduction, personalised, talking, website

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Eye Magazine, still the finest looking and finest reading graphic design magazine in the world, has just launched its own blog. Now you can look and learn, and read and write back... I'm particularly pleased to see that the facility to book a lunch date with Paul Davis (from the Copyright Davi... read more

tags: blog, creativity, design, image, information, literature, magazine, publishing

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Just audio cassettes, loads of them. That's all. read more

tags: art, audio, brands, design, Gallery, information, resource

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This is the newly launched, official London Election website. It's 'job' is to engage Londoners in the elections for the Mayor of London and the London Assembly. Cool features include animations showing how to vote and how the results are calculated, a countdown clock, a tool that automaticall... read more

tags: design, london, Mayor, Politics, vote

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East London studio, Bold Creative have recently redesigned their site. In my opinion, it is totally "Web 2.0". What I think is so great about this site is that the design features fully-integrated links to thier flickr, myspace, youtube and blog pages. Bold Creative's site is spot-on for thei... read more

tags: bold, community, design, interactive, studio, usability

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We live in an increasingly conscientious age, all of our actions have reactions. As designers we should be leading on these issues, not just as a commercial imperative, but as part of a wider change in our approach. "Three trees is a is a not for profit enterprise set up to help everyone invol... read more

tags: community, design, education, environmental, female, information, resource, sustainability

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