Marylin & Ulysses

didn't expect to see her reading Joyce, but at least we have something in common.

Design Thinking

Design Thinking resources:

IDEO
Thoughts by Tim Brown
Stanford University d.school
Design Thinking for Educators
Design Thinking blog
Design Sojourn

to be continued…

dot-font articles

dozens of articles on typography from John D.Berry, typographer and editor of dot-font magazine, as well as other creative readings on creativepro

Lans Wyman's article on wayfinding

Lans Wyman's article on wayfinding systems on webesteem, art&design magazine

The (Mostly) True Story of Helvetica and the New York City Subway

AIGA article about the relationship between Helvetica and Subway. Very long and informative.

gym class magazine

'Gym Class Magazine is a zine for the guy chosen last. What does that mean? Well, it’s a zine for the underdog, the black sheep. Remember your high school gym class? The bit where two kids were made captain and took turns choosing who they wanted on their team? Well, Gym Class Magazine is a zine for the guy chosen last.

It's for geeks, nerds and nellys; definitely not for guys into dodgeball.

Instead, we like more creative stuff… like drawing and illustration, indie magazines and comics, scary movies and sci-fi, graphic design and typography, electronic music and tall buildings.

If any of that sounds like you, welcome. Thanks for stopping by.'

Victionary

design books from victionary!

ME design mag

ME: Contemporary culture & Design magazine, featuring graphics, art, architecture, fashion, etc...

50 books to buy before you die

grafik online: 'In our new weekly feature, Jon Dowling of Counter-Print will list the fifty essential books that any self-respecting graphic designer should have on their bookshelf'.

read RUSSIA!

online + print magazine about Russia we don't know (based in NY)
also available via STACK website (6, 8, or 12 magazines sent altogether £3 each, incl. GOOD)

Monocle design

blogged design process of making Monocle live
monocle.com – by Fitzroy&Finn

also their stuff: London Design Guide

Fonts for Financials

H&F article about Annual reports' typefaces

campaign for education

What's The Big Read?
"774 million adults can not read this, and 75 million children who are not in school will be denied the chance to learn to read and write.
After reading a story in the Big Read we are asking you to write your name for the millions that cannot.
We are collecting the names to deliver to governments during the week of the 20th to 26th of April 2009 to demand that they take action to make sure that everyone has an education."

the who and whom of liberty taking

Mute article on liberty & law

"We are the men and women reading books, searching

In the pages of history for the lost world, the key

To the mystery of living peace, imperishable joy;

We are the factory hands the field hands mill hands everywhere

Moulding creating building structures, forging ahead....

We are the living dream of dead men everywhere,

The unquenchable truth that class-memories create

To stagger the infamous world with prophecies

Of unlimited happiness - a deathless humanity;

We are the living and the dead men everywhere....

If you want to know what we are -

we are REVOLUTION!"

(Carlos Bulosan, 1940)

also: article 'Wishful thinkers of the Calamity Bazaar'

article on Isotype

Isotype archive and its origins
Gert Antz's archive page
Uni. of Reading Isotype research project (+ others on typography)
Research articles by Marija Dalbello (great resource)

UX magazine

reporters sans frontieres

RSF - La liberté de la presse au quotidien
+ english, español, arabic, chinese languages

citizen journalism

Cambridge community (MA) video 'From pamphlet to Blog'
Now Public: crowd powered media
VizEdu: CJ explained visually
CJ: A Primer article
Public journalism & a problem of Objectivity article
International Journal of Web-based communities
All Voices: the 1st open media site where anyone can report from anywhere
Center for citizen media
The Viewspaper (Indian)
Global Voices online
E Pluribus Media: collaborative journalism
Eco 89 (en Français)
Newscri: get free news in real time
You Scoop it: news powered by people
Yahoo: you witness news
Newsotronic: the best way to be heard
Newsmeback
Global reporter: where YOU report the news
I, Reporter

flickr: Citizen Photojournalism

online subculture

microblogging.com
microblink: news
webcom microblogging article
quantcast.com: twitter demographics
twitter services

the online slang dictionary
lingo2word
lagkills.com: acronyms
internetslang.com

compuserve.com

unspeak

'Unspeak' - blog dedicated to the book by Stephen Poole

‘Should be required reading for reporters and editors everywhere’ Slate

‘Compelling... at its satirical best, Unspeak’s implacable rage harks back to the thundering tirades of the Augustan era’ Daily Telegraph

‘Unspeak is in the best sense a stimulus and a provocation. Unmasking unspeak is addictive, and anyone can play.’ Times Literary Supplement

Think tank article
other THINK TANK related resources:
The limits of the 'Think tank' revolution
Answers.com: think tank
List of think tanks in the UK
List of think tanks in the USA
List of World think tanks
Collective intelligence
Blog of collective intelligence
World Economic Forum
Brain trust
Overton window ('a concept in political theory, named after its originator, Joe Overton, former vice president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. It describes a "window" in the range of public reactions to ideas in public discourse, in a spectrum of all possible options on an issue. Overton described a method for moving that window, thereby including previously excluded ideas, while excluding previously acceptable ideas. The technique relies on people promoting ideas even less acceptable than the previous "outer fringe" ideas. That makes those old fringe ideas look less extreme, and thereby acceptable. The idea is that priming the public with fringe ideas intended to be and remain unacceptable, will make the real target ideas seem more acceptable by comparison'.)
O.W. illustrated
Intro to O.W. of political possibilities