Design news | Sep 02
Rights issue rocks the music world by Edna Gundersen
“Record companies see it as mutiny. Musicians call it an overdue rebellion. Either way, the artists' rights movement has set the stage for combat that could revolutionize the music industry.”
The Myth of Open Source Security by John Viega.
“Many eyeballs are a surefire solution to the problem of creating secure code.”
Good integration of flash in Werkstatte design & programming site.
ZANOTTA new site dedicated to the communication and on-line entertainment.
Looking for DHTML + javascripts resources? Check Open Cube.
If you want to fine tune, learn and grow your knowledge of Photoshop - join Photoshop list.
IAB Case studies research + resource, from branding to rich media across many industry segments.
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ndlr: you will need to register - it's worth it.
Merchant: FBI probes major credit card scam by Linda Rosencrance
Living Color by J. C. Herz
“Did you know? Pantone owns the monopoly on every tint, tone, and shade you've ever seen. Now it wants to control the colors you'll see in the future.”
Hungry for design? ClubSandwich makes their guest gallery of rotating graphics available for viewing. Diversity guaranteed.
Reservocation issue #13 interview with Geoffrey Cook, a fascinating designer and James Widegreen (read our close*up) complemented with beautiful graphics by Karen Ingram.
A little while ago I talked about the sneaky new EULA from M$ - well read this article to see the impact of the new Service Pack license on Health Care related services... and ultimately, on all users. Window Manager by Brian Livingston.
Serious new worm targets Linux/Apache servers by David Legard
CERT® Advisory CA-2002-27 Apache/mod_ssl Worm
WellVetted - Inspirational gathering, is a new project which publishes a monthly list of approximately 20 sites picked by some of the top design sites. Submitting *one* site displayed on netdiver in the previous month is a hard task since there are many outstanding sites. Hope you enjoy the diversity and our efforts.
For people who make websites:
Experienced advice needed on how and why write?
10 Tips on writing the living Web by Mark Bernstein.
DNSAlias.org maps your dynamic IP to a domain name (yourname.dnsalias.com)
DotContent is a powagirrrl powered company! The tiny flash anims using a gridlock toy - I remember when I was young never was able to solve it - use smart storyboard and messages. Content is king!
Wireless web gives villages free net by Robert Andrews
Desktop *nix Users Find No Solution in OS X by J. Paul Reed
“Many MacOS X users get it in their heads to tell Linux users to switch. After all, MacOS X is just like Linux, but with a better GUI and more application support they argue. It's win-win! Untrue. This freshmeat article sums up nicely where many Linux users are coming from.”
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via: Michael Bacarella
High quality photography portfolio and site for Chris McPherson.
“For the first time, Europe has more internet users than the US. According to Irish-based industry monitor Nua.com, Europe has almost 186 million users, while Canada and the US register 182 million.
The difference may not seem substantial, but Europe is still a growing market."”
New powagirrrl: how about recycling car seat belts and turning them into a fashion item? L O W + T I G H T does.
Sydney - Australia is getting a brand new design conference and it's Semi-Permanent.
Coming up next Spring. Sign up to get more information.
Where art thou Stuckists? Intel reveals share denial PC scheme by Andrew Orlowski
Another twist of the oh so important copyright protection debate - this one a bit sicker.
Somewhat a belated news - but a must read anyway: Netscape usage down to 3.4 percent by Gretel Johnston
Simple, clean and efficient celsius.uk.
What a fab concept and well executed site design for the Dinnick & Howells agency.
Components of collaboration by Wendy Richmond
“The connection with the person came first, and we subsequently came up with a project...”
Presented by Designboom: Giuseppe Molteni and Roberta Motta / photography: Shells: portable architecture; for singular work of art, design, fashion: Elizabeth Paige Smith.
Joe Gillespie's WPDFD September issue deals with CSS and WYSIWYG editors with score-chart of browsers and editors in the article which shows how well, or badly, they handlr the more interesting techniques.
How to reply to clients and colleagues concerning standard compliancy? My Web site is standard! And yours? by Karl Dubost.
It is a challenging time to be a student in new media programs; present academia structure may even prevent learning what you need to learn.
Get a few tips from Lessons to be Learned by George Olsen
IT managers cite security and competition when choosing a Linux system by Nick Selby
After a year online, Yoel is looking for some feedback in order to improve Creative Behavior.
A facelift for Toormix with a nice scrolling visual presentation.
For years this has been one of my fav site, and still is, because they evolve both as an agency and in their client work: Kitsch Design It's all around you.
Mozilla rising: Netscape won't dislodge Internet Explorer from its hegemony over browser space. But its open-source sibling is aiming at even bigger game: Windows by Farhad Manjoo
“But the best part about Mozilla is that it is not just a browser. Scores of developers are now talking about using Mozilla as a platform -- that is, using Mozilla's underlying code to build non-browser applications, like calendar programs and e-mail programs and even Linux desktops.
You don't need to download Mozilla to use these apps, as some are distributed with their own stripped-down version of Mozilla's engine -- which, if you think about it, is exactly the kind of thing Microsoft was trying to prevent when it launched its war against Netscape."
Excerpt and link provided by Ricky Bacon
Ryan Terry storytelling site is a good useage of both illustration and flash.
99.9% of Websites Are Obsolete. An excerpt from Forward Compatibility: Designing & Building With Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman.
Read good discussions about above article at Metafilter and 37signals.
A new VR resource with tutorials and forum.
We've got 2 new powagirrrls:
/ c o o l a r t ?? unique illustrations
/ 0 to 1 when industrial design is not boring
GNU telephony software released by Stephen Lawson
Practical discussions of CSS and its use mailing list and message board.
A poetic and beautiful site :::::dzinenmotion:::::
Visual experience guaranteed with Klick Studio.
VeriSign may lose dibs on domain sales by Wylie Wong
“The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) on Tuesday accused VeriSign of breaching its contract because it failed to correct inaccurate customer information in a timely fashion.”
The Mono project (and list) is bringing the technology to linux, including ASP.NET for use with Apache.
Periscope - The Idea Company blind like anim for navigation.
Gator Designs has got a complete facelift. See the evolution.
Creative Behavior -> CB is celebrating it's 1st year online. Congrats Yoel. August issue cover + interview with Karen Ingramda powagirrrl rocks.
Hear and read Lawrence Lessig on the subject of Intellectual Property, Copyright Law and free culture from the last O'Reilly Open Source Conference - July 24/02
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via: Jeffrey Joslin
embassy of dreams has a new design.
Napster is officially R.I.P.
In other words, if your .com domain name (however inadvertently) infringes a US trademark, the Commonwealth of Virginia has an interest in not permitting you, as a foreigner or otherwise, to use the facilities of the domain name registry database.
If you thought you were registering your domain name with your registration service provider in your own particular country, think again...
I'll see your domain name in (US) Court! by Andrew Lothian, Demys.
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via: Joe Gillespie
The University of Central England, have a new survey on attitudes to web usability, and would be delighted to receive as many different contributions as possible.
Visit the explorative or business area and get into BLISSIUM new estate.
Minimalist site with a good nav: Square One Design
Geoff Spear photography work and site is outstanding in way of showing a folio.
Get up to par with the current climate with WASP.
p..h..o..t..o..m..o..n..t..a..g...e explores the world of collages.
“So design is a social process based around collaboration, negotiation and user participation - in fact, not a profession but a community.”
Excerpt from Tom Moran on Everyday Adaptive Design.
AOL to Launch Next Version of Netscape Browser (Well not just yet) by Derek Caney
New technology and what they mean to you by Jeremy C. Wright
Table Layouts, Revisited by Jeffrey Zeldman
“And it’s not just 4.0 browsers that make pure CSS layout a pain. A bug in IE6 cuts off long text in any floating div. Since float is essential to CSS layout, any site that uses it to format long passages of text will be broken in IE6...”
Problems are beautiful??? So it seems. Read Is Your Marketing Solution Your Biggest Problem? by Sean D'Souza
Everyone wants to be the boss. What does it take to make it to the top? by Chris Yeh
One of the first voices to declare the end of business as usual which gave birth to the Cluetrain Manifesto has written another book.
Read the whole book online for free.
Get a fine review of David Weinberger's new book: Small Pieces Loosely Joined, a unified theory of the web by Andrew Hinton.
Check L'Uovo (the Egg) - The tale of awakening the best out of you teaser, Check L'Uovo (the Egg) - The tale of awakening the best out of you teaser, an animated movie produced in both Italian and English. Dario Picciau awaits your comments and the project is available to be distributed. If you are interested, please write the producer.
Moluv has got a brand new face with a brand new flash search engine + forum.
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, Second Edition by Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville is an IA foundation book. The 2nd edition receives an excellent review.
International Organization for Migration is geared toward the prevention of trafficking in persons, particularly women and children.
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via: Chris Esterline
A candid interview with interesting insights about being in the business as a consultant. The indie life: Talking with Louis Rosenfeld by Paul Nattress
An outstanding redesign from the versatile probe3 media.exploration, from 3D modelling to print to gaming to designing a hair salon web site!
Cool experiments and flash chat from ...t.y.p.o.r.g.a.n.i.s.m... Showing: asci picture rendering.
