Design and digital culture NEWS // January 2002
Generationrice (a
sino-american zine) reloads! 
Breaking
news? Yahoo to launch
pay-per-search!
For
people who make websites:
Getting paid by
Zeldman - ALA issue #134.
“What galls me about the New New Economy is the reluctance of
clients to part with their money while continuing to expect that work
be done”
Alley of the Shadow - 2 must read articles!
lookandfeel
new media - updated
the backend (XML + Flash 5) + with new cute mini-anims and projects.
Creative
Behavior - January issue!
Bornmag:
Art and Literature Collaboration - the Winter issue!
There
are some indications that a slow economic recovery is in the process:
usually in a recession, due to important % layoffs - after these, companies
are capable to show some *positive* activities.
Hang in there!
Which
design portals do you visit most frequently? Netdiver ran a 2 weeks survey
and here are your favorites. As you will see -
the submissions came from all over the world! Tx to everyone who participated.
These are your 10 most favorites:
/ surfstation
/ netdiver :)
/ designiskinky
/ linkdup
/ k10k
/ pixelsurgeon
\ threeoh
/ coolhomepages
/ newstoday
/ mediainspiration
Wanna
startling talents in multi-displinary projects - check the new issue
of Portfolios.
*Feed
your talent!* column: Don't
kid yourself!
Visual
response (mouseover bottom nav and choose *archive) another great idea
from the team @ Australia
inFront is a must see project - thematic design based on a *word*
no pictures allowed.
VR -> Unity
VR -> Birth
/
Popnomad -> Winter
edition!
Want
some p
i x e l v i e w ? Independent producers share their thoughts. This
week, Meryl K. Evans who is a (she)geek. She is also a writer of breadth
and depth on web work from design to return on investment.
Macromedia
Computer Virus Found: People who browse an affected Web site or use e-mail
could still become infected if they download and open an infected Flash
file on their computer outside of the browser.
SpireMedia
one of the earliest outstanding concept site to be displayed on netdiver
has a fresh design.
MS
compatible office suite and Linux OS for international version? When
do I get my graphic soft to be linux compatible?
Marje
Cannon has an immediate opening for a high caliber web designer - relocating
to Florida a must!
Want
some p
i x e l v i e w ? Independent producers share their thoughts. This
week, Derek Powazek, Virtual Communities: two words that point to the
idea that we are all important. Derek is probably the premier practitioner
and guide of this idea.
FutureFarmers freshened
up v.3 site!
Us
vs Them by Nancy Nowacek
_ _ _ _ _ _
ndle1: a
must read article for designers!
Integrity
and honesty are 2 qualities that insure success in business. Don't let
no one make you think otherwise. Ultimately, you reap what your sow.
If you want good clients - don't compromise and in due
time, you will be able to work on projects with those qualities as cornerstone.
Want
some p
i x e l v i e w ? Independent producers share their thoughts. This
week, Joe Clark, Toronto writer-accessibility obsessif-curmudgeon brought
to you by theheadlemur.
{ID
event in French?} Philippe Gully editor of the French design portal Praktica -
who participated to the *Future Web - Visions of what's to come* event
on IndependentsDay.org -
extended the event to French speaking designers.
The French archive will be posted shortly.
“Praktica ayant été
invité à débattre sur le futur du Web indépendant,
nous avons pensé que nous pourrions retranscrire une version française
pour faciliter l'approche aux francophones non anglophones.
Nous avons choisi, pour le moment, seulement quelques intervenants.
Nous pourrions être amenés à compléter ce
dossier par d'autres traductions à venir.
Merci à Carole Guevin, Jeffrey
Zeldman, Christopher Robbins, Marko
Radakovic, Allan Herrel et Kitty
Mead pour leur aimable autorisation de publier leurs essais en
français.”
*Why
redo a website*
“...some random thoughts, in no particular order,
to take into consideration before redoing a website...” an article
I wrote for CreativeBehavior.
Check reservocation -
issue 008!
-> more news
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