Design news | Jul 02
Gio Ponti portrait / a world of decorative modernism.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit on Thursday in an attempt to overturn key portions of a controversial 1998 copyright law (DMCA).
On trial: Digital copyright law by Declan McCullagh
Also please read Ben Edelman study of Domains Reregistered for Distribution of Unrelated Content.
Recommend reading professor Edward W. Felten FAQ pages on SDMI (Secure Digital Music Initiative) challenge and what happened.
*Basic Steganalysis Concepts*: Steganography is the art of passing information in a manner that the very existence of the message is unknown. The goal of steganography is to avoid drawing suspicion to the transmission of a hidden message. If suspicion is raised, then this goal is defeated. Steganalysis is the art of discovering and rendering useless such covert messages.
Above definition provided to clarify the double-side implications of watermarking to protect intellectual properties.
Patch laced with a Trojan Horse? Read the latest M$ mischief. Microsoft Makes An Offer You Can't Refuse by Richard F. Forno.
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ndlr: btw don't miss reading all the potent links supplied in the article as well.
iDEA Machine makes deconstruction flash collages rock and has now become RARE Method.
Serious PHP vuln reported by Thomas C Greene
Molly Holzschlag's on Why Web Builders Must Move to XHTML an interview by Tim Haight.
Tom Nulens as a designer impresses me with his simplicity and precise renderings.
Extreme visual balance added to objects interaction delicacy - Julien Moulin new site rocks!
Emotion & Design: Attractive things work better by Donald Norman
“The usable but ugly critique of The Design of Everyday Things has merit insofar as usable designs are not necessarily pleasurable ones... The tensions between aesthetics and usability as well as those between affect and cognition have long bothered me, but it has not been until now that I have been able to make progress in bringing these areas together...
To be truly beautiful, wondrous, and pleasurable, the product has to fulfill a useful function, work well, and be usable and understandable. Good design means that beauty and usability are in balance.”
Creative Behavior -> July interview with Simmetry Labs.
Nathan Shedroff thoughts - is a vast array of communication design articles; excellent The Interactive Development Process!
Giulia Balladore ::juniatwork:: vector models done with flash are stunning! In the snapshot below - the face is an actual graphic rendering not a picture!
Powaboys, Lomp.Illustration are sharp and on top of their game - masterfull rendering and high fiber creativity.
David Bean is the founder of Deep End Media (and yes the trademark was bought by the outre-Atlantic U.K. based agency). His parcours as a creative director and designer is most interesting - his new site shows the no-nonsense weight of years in the trade.
Looking for open source content management system resources and list?
Want a high dose of inspiration? Meet Craig Blanchette who plays numerous sports competitively and recreationaly including hand cycling (current US Champion), elite wheelchair racing (holds 21 world records) and as well likes to skateboard, rock climbing and scuba dive... while being a double amputee since birth!
Ca nous fait plaisir de vous voir! Don't understand check sockho a cool site!
Keep in mind that browser base viewing is *decompression* of JPEG - perhaps this means lesser impact? JPEG Patent Claim Sparks Concern by Joanna Glasner
Check also: JPEGs are not free: Patent holder pursues IP grab by Andrew Orlowski in London
Check also the W3C.org content.
Light at the end of the tunnel? Last year I made a small coverage of the JPEG2000 new algorithm and innovative compression device. The results I gathered from some experiments on real heavy files were astounding. I've contacted the group and will post their replies as soon as I hear from them.
When you thought that things couldn't get worst: how about JPEGs being licensed and having to pay royalties??? The latest player to attempt to strangle the internet???
“Forgent has the sole and exclusive right to use and license all the claims under the '672 patent that implement JPEG in all "fields of use... We wanted to ensure the investment community and the general public are clear about the terms of our valuable JPEG data compression technology, one of the many technologies we have in our patent portfolio... products that use JPEG technology for licensing opportunities.”
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via: TheHeadLemur
“Eighty percent of success is showing up.” - Woody Allen. Want more quotes?
Found Quoteland to be a nifty resource.
This is a fab fonts site - check Gray Graphics.
Now what's between you and DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act)?
For a starter, how about learning that “one cannot put up a site showing design work one has done for clients without clearing it with all of the clients beforehand (in addition to the company one has worked for)?” Concern voiced by Sam Tomasello.
“The DMCA was signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1998. It looks like a reasonable law, but some particular clauses are not very well thought out and give content movers unacceptable control over the market (even though they claim it's to protect the artist). Perhaps it was deliberate. In any case, many have suffered already and a healthy movement has developed against it.
If this concerns you, there are ways you can fight back. Anti-DMCA seems to be a good start.”
Excerpt + links provided by Michael Bacarella.
The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) is very concerned with this law as well. DMCA reports:
Unintended consequences - three years under the DMCA
Joint Letter Opposing Copyright Office Position on DMCA
To understand what is at stake with a real life scenario: Why the DMCA must be repealed by Jay Sulzberger, who distributed this pamphlet for months in front of the NYPL.
For people who make websites:
Time management: the pickle jar theory by Jeremy Wright.
Sasha's { unit 8 } improved!
“The Patriot Act already provides for a person's home to be searched without that person being informed that a search was ever performed, or of any surveillance devices that were implanted.”
Read the full article: US planning to recruit one in 24 Americans as citizen spies by Ritt Goldstein
Oh gosh when paranoia strikes there are some real bad decisions taken and our civil freedom are threaten. Read the author whereabouts.
???? you might want to check the other news on the right side too... Microsoft Linux provides all the power of the Linux Operating System with the ease of use you've come to expect from Microsoft Products ????
How to Tell Your Story in the Media by Ilise Benun; check her book Self Promotion Online and companion site.
Probably one of the first pixel animator drubbubu renews itself again! Don't miss clicking on icons to *see* what happens. Lot's of patient work there.
Boxes and Arrows bringing architecture and design to the digital landscape. A peer-written journal dedicated to discussing, improving and promoting the work of this community, through the sharing of exemplary technique, innovation and informed opinion.
/ The Best Designs has got a new interface. Hats of Angela for your great work!
Remember the royalty_free vs patent debate concerning standards? Get a fresh view of what's at stake now.
Standards stalled over royalty disputes by Paul Festa.
Plexman Photography truly shows how a pix is worth a thousand words.
Three Ways to Improve External Search Engine Usability by Jeff Lash
Were-Here forums site had a major server failure on July 4 - pls be patient as they are rebuilding all the information.
Mondotrendy? A powagirrrl illustrator with a solid hand on her world of expression.
...In one of the first legal decisions to ban so-called deep linking, a Danish court has ruled that a news site cannot provide hyperlinks to certain Web pages without the permission of publishers... Xcuse me???
Court: Hands off that hyperlink by Lisa M. Bowman
Check the latest status on browsers use: Internet Explorer 95.3, Mozilla 0.4 by Evan Hansen
Egomedia has got an improved version = Ego7. Slick interface!
Do you quilt? Perhaps you should. Digital Quilt a great idea for assembling artwork.
A graphic a day keeps the blues away - ingenious concept -> The Calendar Project.
W3C is starting a new discussion list, the Web standards education and outreach forum, for Web standards evangelists, authors, and others to discuss ways to improve the quality of web-standards related books, publications, lectures and training courses.
Creative Behavior - June issue is out - cool trick to enter the site. Also the site is loading much faster since they have moved to new servers.
Read the new article I wrote - The liner effect by Carole Guevin
eBay buys PayPal by Drew Cullen
Do you get spam? Do you wish you didn't?
The Design Center is helping sponsor a SPAM SURVEY conducted by the Association of Apple Computer Users & Groups. The organization is chartered for community service, education and legislation advocacy for technology. SPAM is one of the big issues they hope to take to Washington D.C. this year, and they need YOUR help. Go there and fill out the simple, secure and safe SPAM SURVEY. It will help them gather data for their UCE Presentation.
The sweetest imagination and candid illustrations - check James Yang newly redesigned portfolio.
An initiative by Core 77 The Industry Snapshot is designed to offer valuable information on how much your fellow designers are earning, where they're doing business, how they're getting business, and the tools they're using to manage their business.
The survey takes only 10 to 15 minutes to complete and, upon completion of the survey, all participants receive the full research report for free.
Color charts to explore chromatic referencing and mix + have your heard of the dithering ColorMix to build 2 or 3 colors swatches? Cool.
A striking photo_reporter + powagirrrl Ami Vitale snaps life as it is in our world; an eye-opening experience!
Design by Mark where you can find great photoshop tutorials.
A simple interface redesign that capitalizes on their *O* brand for imaging; check The O Group.
Little Factory has got a new set of people icons. I luv pixel design.
The LOMO is a technically astonishing, gorgeous little Russian compact camera.
Check Lomography.com to visit a fab collections and to learn more about it.
Subway and has moved - update your bookmarks.
Hotmail to introduce charges on BBC News.
New variant on the Klez worm by David Becker -> JULY 6.
This new morphing worm is the most serious threat ever. Make sure you install the patch for IE 6; IE5.5 Service Pack 2; IE5.5 Service Pack 1; IE5.01 Service Pack 2 for Windows 2000 and NT.
Flash XML resources? Check FlashDeveloper.
About time! Gator sued over pop-up ads by Stefanie Olsen
/// don't be a night nurse /// 'cause we can! by oneloveforever.
You need to check The Attik navigational system - interesting flash application + nice color palette.
Full house of ideas, fonts, stuff and sharp market strategies -> House Industries.
We've got 2 new powagirrrls Carolina and Renata from Argentina running :::. NOMADE .:::
Wanna join a new flash list and share ideas, tips and techniques? Topics include design, programming, business, etc. Brought to you by Ann-Marie aka Flash Goddess.
JavaScript + CSS + DOM Magic by Makiko Itoh
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My first and lasting impression: she's the most conversant and geeky powagirrrl I've ever met. She's trailing from many years of print experience and is a reference expert in Portable Document programming as well as a business woman.
Her close*up interview is enlighting and it didn't come as a surprise that she would write a book on javascript, css and DOM - which are some of her proficient skills.
I met Maki f2f at Web2000 in SanFran - when we were both on the same team participating in the *Site in a day* contest. Read the aftermath article: Cool Site in a Day: The Shortest Eight Hours of Our Lives co-written with Nick Finck that recounts the event.
Dawn passed this info along concerning royalties to be paid by indepedent internet radio stations and the fact that her fav station SomaFM - was shut down; you can read the reasons on their site.
Wanna do something about it? Please read this page for more information.
IDEO is an industrial design powerhouse! Check their work.
Interviews with Jakob Nielsen + Todd Purgason on PixelSurgeon - you don't want to miss that!
Netdiver appeared in the What's New on Yahoo - July 2/02 and is now in the Arts > Design Arts > Graphic Design > Magazines listing in the company of professional magazines. That is a grand recognition since there are millions of sites out there... I am wowie!
