All of Us or None: Social Justice Posters of the San Francisco Bay Area

(Hat tip: PlanesTrainsAndRunning.com)

If you are in the San Francisco bay area this summer head over to the Oakland Museum to check their exhibit of social justice posters. It looks to be an excellent show.

Satty (Wilfred Podreich), 1968

Posted in Design Ethics, Actions & Impact, Design History, Event, Mad Props, Stuff To Do, Visual Concepts

Another Interesting Opensource Mapping Script

“Nope, that’s not the true size of Greenland.” Open, Forkable, NOT Google Based, and some 3D: What’s not to love?

Posted in Technical Geekery, Useful Code, User Interface Design, Visual Concepts, Vocation & Profession

Case Study: Water Conservation Guide

“Water Matters: A Design Manual for Water Conservation in Buildings” is a handbook by the New York City Department of Design and Construction (DDC) that summarizes best practices in water efficiency and waste water management for engineers, architects, and plumbers. And it’s gorgeous!

Hat tip: here. Read about it: here.

Posted in Color Theory, Copywriting, Design Ethics, Actions & Impact, Design History, Design Theory, Drawing, PrePress, Repost From Cited Source, Typography, Visual Concepts

Retro Illustration Tutorial

Step One

(Something Magical Happens: here. Go find out. This part it chock full o’ tips and tricks.)

Step Twelve

 

Go read the whole tutorial by Peter O’Toole over at ComputerArts.com.

Posted in Artists & Designers, Color Theory, Design History, Drawing, Packaging, Repost From Cited Source, Tutorial, Typography, Visual Concepts

Simulate any User Agent or Bot

This is one of the best emulators: clean and complete. GUI-wise it’s not a UI/UX dream but it works very well!

 

(See also: Learn more about creating and debugging for mobile devices with HTML5.)

Posted in Education, Mad Props, Technical Geekery, User Interface Design, Vocation & Profession, Web