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  PagePlane: Design and Marketing From Low Altitude
A design that does not reflect the logic of human interface is crippled.
I would guess these designers prefer not to be pegged as designing for a certain industry, but the lyrical typefaces they produce have the kind of warmth that lends itself so well to food and hospitality projects.
It is typically a highly developed model that a publication designer and his or her team have been working on for a long stretch with a significant budget—the ultimate execution of a new look and feel.
www.pageplane.com   (6099 words)

  
  A CLEAR VIEW
Fools For War: Ah, what a difference a year makes: Our pretender who isn’t a president wins a war that isn’t a victory -and we all settle in for what isn’t a peace; but another long foreign, guerilla war.
Fools Etc. In the last few months, we’ve seen the lies of criminals Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice, Wolfowitz, Pearl, Feith, etc., exposed for the public fraud they really are, and these pathetic excuses for leaders are now blaming U.S. intelligence for their own failures.
Fools for war, we wasted more than 10 years, 50,000 American lives and 300,000 wounded, trying to tell the Vietnamese how to run their own country.
www.thezephyr.com /foolsforwar.htm   (5007 words)

  
 Shelter
Here is a home design which, though probably never actively attempting low toxicity, has nontheless probably come as clost being low toxic as any home specifically designed for it, simply as a consequence of its design aesthetic and Modernst preference for simple spaces and unadulterated materials.
Readers will recall one design I proposed for excavated housing based on radial forms that made optional use of a membrane skylight dome to enclose its central atrium courts, thus eliminating the need for glass windows to weather-proof the open room chambers, allowing Japanese style screens to be used instead.
Designed as a conceptual design-level tool for architects and industrial designers, this package features a very intuitive user interface, some very clever tools, a large assortment of rendering modes, and some good features for doing live presentations.
radio.weblogs.com /0119080   (16666 words)

  
 Theosophical Society in America   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
If the Tarot cards are, indeed, the product of a consciously designed effort on the part of some unknown individuals designed to stimulate the powers resident in the primordial images of the unconscious, these author-artists would have to be gratefully and reverently congratulated.
This is the design used also for the Zodiac and for the yearly calendar, divided into the four seasons by the equinoxes and solstices, which, when connected by straight lines, form the cross within the circle.
The Fool or zero card is in many ways the most significant and most powerful of the cards of the Major Arcana, because it symbolizes the pristine spiritual source and ultimate destiny of all manifest powers and beings.
www.theosophical.org /theosophy/books/fool/ch1.html   (2730 words)

  
 Essays on Software Architecture
That is, many design decisions are left unbound by the architecture and are happily left to the discretion and good judgment of downstream designers and implementers.
But designers of elements, or subsystems, that you assign may have to introduce structure of their own to meet their goals, in which case such structures are architectural: to them but not to you.
Descriptive architectures are really the result of the collective actions and design decisions of all of the developers (including design decisions made during integration necessitated by discovery of defects) and are an emergent property of the system.
www.sei.cmu.edu /architecture/essays.html   (16018 words)

  
 The Fool (design collective) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Fool were a Dutch design collective who were influential in the psychedelic style of art in British popular music at the end of the 1960s.
He took photographs of clothes designed by them, and sent them to London where they were published in The Times of London and immediately caused a sensation.
The Fool also released an eponymous album in 1968, in the Psych-Folk style, produced by Graham Nash of The Hollies.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Fool_(design_collective)   (505 words)

  
 pod : fora » biological » holistic metamap : the galactik trading card oracle complex
Using metapoetiks and neurolinguistik programming, the text is designed like a zen koan or media virus to enter into the consciousness and stimulate a transformational experience or paradigm shifts in the moment, or at some sinchronik moment in the future when the meaning resurfaces like a lightning flash in the void.
The collection is a visual array invoking new forms of metacultural expression and multimodal experience.
The deck is a microgallery of different images, a pocket size collection of art from many different styles and perspectives, methods and mediums.
www.podcollective.com /fora/viewtopic.php?t=563   (4660 words)

  
 Authoritarian and Democratic Technics--Lewis Mumford
As with the earliest forms of authoritarian technics, the weight of effort, if one is to judge by national budgets, is toward absolute instruments of destruction, designed for absolutely irrational purposes whose chief by-product would be the mutilation or extermination of the human race.
In this new systems-centered collective, this Pentagon of power, there is no visible presence who issues commands: unlike job's God, the new deities cannot be confronted, still less defied.
Under the pretext of saving labor, the ultimate end of this technics is to displace life, or rather, to transfer the attributes of life to the machine and the mechanical collective, allowing only so much of the organism to remain as may be controlled and manipulated.
www.primitivism.com /mumford.htm   (2465 words)

  
 The Collective Will : IntentBlog
Collective Will is the intent to make a decision or policy that serves to benefit the many rather than the interests of a few.
Hence, to delude the collective perception of our populace by media manipulation is extremely difficult - as evidenced by political entities who have launched glitzy media programs that were were well conceptualized, yet did nothing to prevent the average Indian from voting against them.
When the US Constitution was originally crafted, it was designed to vastly limit the power of big government because the authors of the Consitution believed that the much smaller States were much better suited to deal with the needs of their people.
www.intentblog.com /archives/2005/09/the_collective.html   (8028 words)

  
 Draperies & Window Coverings Online - Design Perspectives
Once when I was lecturing in Florida to a group of interior designers and decorators on the subject of Color Psychology, a woman told an interesting story.
Indeed, there are more floral designs in wallcoverings and fabrics than any other type of design, even now that the floral trend is less popular than it was during the last part of the 20th century.
This means protecting endangered species where their native habitat becomes a utopia; for example, the perfect Savannah, the most beautiful, clean ocean or lake, the clearest blue sky, the most pristine wetland or meadow.
www.dwconline.com /DWC/aug03/designp.html   (1770 words)

  
 The Fool - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Fool (band) is the name of a former California rock band.
The Fool (rock band) is the name of a Dundee based modern rock band.
"The Fool" is also the title of a 1997 country music hit by Lee Ann Womack.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Fool   (156 words)

  
 Extreme Programming (XP) FAQ
XP is a development process; UML is a design notation.
But XP says that after you do the simplest thing that could possibly work, you go back and refactor your code until everything your code needs to express appears once and only once within the code base.
As Paul B. MacCready, designer of the Gossamer Condor, says, "Treat every problem as if it can be solved with ridiculous simplicity.
www.jera.com /techinfo/xpfaq.html   (2873 words)

  
 The Tim Burton Collective - Headless in Sleepy Hollow
By then, the design of every set and sequence had been thoroughly worked out and tested.
The village exterior, comprising 11 structures and an array of livestock, was the film's one major outdoor location, built on a private preserve in Lime Tree Valley, an hour north of London.
He must, because once he decided to switch from animation to production design, he had to in effect start from the bottom of the field.
www.timburtoncollective.com /articles/sh2.html   (2516 words)

  
 FOOL - OneLook Dictionary Search
FOOL : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
Phrases that include FOOL: april fool, greater fool theory, fool happy, fool hasty, fool largesse, more...
Words similar to FOOL: dupe, gull, sap, anserine, befool, chump, cockamamie, cockamamy, cod, dissipate, dolt, dopey, dopy, fish, fooled, fooling, foolish, fritter, goofy, gooselike, more...
www.onelook.com /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=FOOL   (376 words)

  
 The Guided Wireframe Narrative for Rich Internet Applications - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
This is why focusing on one design dimension and progressively revealing one concept at a time through a narrative is effective.
In this particular case, the client’s understanding of the design was greatly improved by presenting the design.
I guess this level of design documentation is new to the information architecture field, but it isnt at all new to those of us who have been designing user interfaces for (desktop) applications.
www.boxesandarrows.com /view/the_guided_wire   (4093 words)

  
 Rem Koolhaas Builds
Whereas in the past his cutting-edge designs rarely advanced beyond the model stage, Koolhaas's current commissions include a concert hall in Porto, Portugal; the Seattle Public Library; a student center on the Illinois Institute of Technology campus; three U.S. stores for Prada, the Italian fashion house; and the Dutch Embassy in Berlin.
Working with the graphic designer Bruce Mau, he composed a weighty (six pounds) record of his architectural projects, memorializing the unbuilt along with the constructed and categorizing them by size.
The architect designed a house that is a sandwich.
partners.nytimes.com /library/magazine/home/20000709mag-koolhaas.html   (7231 words)

  
 mainframe
Don Pendleton and I were asked to be the guest designers for this issue, which was themed around the Bauhaus.
Juice Design is having their ten-year anniversary show tonight with a gang of good people from the SF area.
Aside from boat races and art shows, we also sponsored the Fool's Gold Rush bike rally in SF last weekend, which was overrun by fixed-gear bikes with all their snappy accents and color-combos.
www.delphicollective.com /heart.php   (1384 words)

  
 Business Oriented Design: September 2006
The Motley Fool has described one of its key objectives as “… going to put [a] one to five-star ratings on every stock in America.” That is a bold request, and ridiculously powerful in numbers – scary even.
Just imagine for a second taking all of the collective knowledge of the stock market and being able to determine whose input is more or less accurate and putting it against one another to capture a median point that almost perfectly predicts a stocks future performance.
As a 20-something designer; I’ve designed, redesigned, architected, created, built, implemented, art directed, tested and even conceived of more websites in the past 24 months than most designers have in the their entire careers.
marylandmedia.com /blogger/archive/2006_09_01_archive.html   (3119 words)

  
 WisE fOoL nEW MeXIcO aRtiSts
She has been working with Wise Fool NM since the summer of 2003, developing new skills in the circus and puppetry arts.
Her training includes instruction from Wise Fool teachers as well as intensive workshops in the aerial arts with Elsie and Serenity Smith of Cirque Du Soleil, Aerial Fabric originator and master Fred Deb and Carrie Heller, a nationally recognized pioneer in therapeutic applications of circus arts.
She is also a children's trapeze teacher in the Studio Teachers' Collective and has taught in such educational programs as the Miami Performing Arts Center's "Walking Tall Circus" 2005 and 2006 and the "Wise Fool Kids Circus Camp" 2005 in Penasco and Santa Fe, NM.
www.wisefoolnm.org /about_artists.html   (1550 words)

  
 Stopdesign | Are They Really Separated?
However, I think that if you design with an eye towards the future and try to abstract things out as much as possible and keep thinking to yourself “man in 1 year everything could change, I should try to make this easy on my future self”.
Web design is really just like database design: the more you can plan out before you start, the less you’ll have to do in the long run.
Nowadays I, like many designers, construct my HTML in as minimalist a way as I can manage, (when time permits) iteratively and recursively checking each modification to ensure it, and it’s dependancies, are absolutely necessary.
www.stopdesign.com /log/2003/10/14/separated.html   (4577 words)

  
 Core77 Design Blog
Since designers don't have the opportunity to see their own career through the lens of a retrospective until its end, this elegant account of one designer's life provides ample lessons for those of us at the beginning.
D schools are doing a serious disservice to their students by only teaching them "design thinking" when a class in typography or mechanics or drawing might not only give them a valuable skill, but also teach them thinking and making and doing--all at the same time.
Discovering Design is a tragically unusable and annoying waste-of-pixels from Herman Miller, who can't be the design leaders they claim to be if they can't manage some basic interaction design principles.
www.core77.com /blog/archive/200703.asp   (7909 words)

  
 Information Architects Japan » iA Notebook » Why designers have an attitude, why Borat is 1/3 of an ...
As long as design teachers keep on paradigming that arrogance to their students, it’s sure not going to get any better in our domain.
Designer is a profession that needs as much skill and training as engineering, hairdressing, making shoes.
But with the new iPods now also torturing us with data entry designed for spiderfingered martians and the confirmation of our iPhone keyboard theory in Khoi's latest article we felt that it is time to state the obvious: Coming from brand=interface, interface=brand paradigm Apple, the current iPhone keyboard is nothing but criminal.
www.informationarchitects.jp /why-designers-have-an-attitude   (4426 words)

  
 The 'greater fool' theory writ large | MetaFilter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
October 4, 2006 5:49 PM The Motley Fool's new CAPS stock-picking system keeps track of your stock picks and whether they outperformed or underperformed the market.
You're picking alongside other amateurs as well Fool employees and Wall Street's loudest-mouth touts, whose daily picks are manually entered into the system by the programmers.
Then, stocks are ranked; the picks of the best-performing players are given more weight in determining a stock's final ranking.Whether this will harness the wisdom of crowds to determine the future movements of stocks is doubtful, but the interface is decent enough that it's worth a spin if you find this kind of thing fun.
www.metafilter.com /mefi/55283   (799 words)

  
 Fool.com: Foolish Collective [Post of the Day] February 3, 2003
What did the Columbia tell me? As I gazed over the beautiful, 20,000 bright tiles and design, it became apparent that loving care had been given to this older than you might think Orbiter.
The shuttle has experienced design failures, cost overruns, fraud and mismanagement with contractors, many problems being hidden.
Becoming a full member of the Fool Community is easy, takes just a minute, and is very inexpensive.
www.fool.com /community/pod/2003/030203.htm   (614 words)

  
 A Fool on the Hill -- Beatles (John, Paul, George, Ringo) Forever!
Even prior to that, they had stopped touring and had spent the last few years of their careers as Beatles in the studio experimenting with different sounds and methods of producing them.
Generation after generation of fans of all nationalities have discovered their music, appreciated the "boys'" individual and collective talents, rejoiced in their triumphs, and shared in their sorrows.
All of us, who were there from the beginning, felt Ringo's discomfort before and after his tonsilectomy, took sides when Paul decided to get merried, and were affected deeply by the tragedy of John's assasination.
www.rajczyk.com /Beatles/index.html   (187 words)

  
 Gay Marriage and the Collective Lie
This sets the union of a man and woman apart-hallows that union, makes it sacred by virtue of its participation in the life-giving process itself-in a way that all non-procreative relationships never can be.
To enter into the mystery of life-giving, in all senses from the biological to the affective, is the reason for marriage.
The Church and the government(s) of Italy were always at loggerheads after WWII on the Church's social teachings and society's social desires.Where do we draw the line?Malum in se or malum prohibitum, either designation connotes error and sin.
www.godspy.com /reviews/Gay-Marriage-and-the-Collective-Lie.cfm   (4394 words)

  
 I hope no one argues.... but... : Fool Moon
Instead, Bush should have worked toward initiatives that included the overall consensus of every being in America, not pursue the addition of new branches of the government that will continue wasting tax dollars in their inefficiency for years to come...
Going back to the claim to which you replied Lawmage, if you believe in an emtpy initiative using collective resource for the defamation of citizens who make use of their god-given rights to use drugs, then you do not believe in God...
I may not be a leading governmental official or aide but it would take me no time AT ALL, to design an initiative for dealing with any of our problems within a timely manner...
foolmoon.com /showflat.php?Number=188356   (1736 words)

  
 Theosophical Society in America   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
At first glance, the very concept of regarding the two as a unified pattern, designed to aid substantially in the inner uplifting of man, appears preposterous.
The Kabbalah is a collection of mystic-cosmic ideas concentrated in a symbolic design called the Tree of Life, which shows the way in which the unmanifest and infinite Being has taken on a finite and manifest aspect through emanation.
This remarkable Design of Designs can be most effectively approached by describing it in three ways: (1) As a universal psychological Archetype as Such, as distinguished from an archetypal image.
www.theosophical.org /theosophy/books/fool/ch4.html   (1395 words)

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