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Archive for the ‘Interesting Design’ Category


  • Library Uses Flickr in Very Innovative Way

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    Westmont Public Library in Illinois has (as far as I know) just pioneered an innovative way for libraries to use Flickr.

    Someone over there is thinking. They’re publishing photos of new released books with notes attached to each book that link back to reserve that book on their website. Awesome.

    Another great use of Flickr notes that I can remember seeing was this one featuring a lot of web 2.0 logos and notes linking to the relevant website. Any others you know of?

    Posted on July 5, 2007 to:

      Asides Books Interesting Design
  • Change for the Sake of Organization

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    I do love organization. But I also love things when they stay the same. I’m a creature of habit.

    *cough* Arby’s 5 for 5 all the time *cough*

    Lately I’ve made some changes to, hopefully, improve my workflow a bit.
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    Posted on April 12, 2007 to:

      Interesting Design Reflection
  • Design Contests: Opportunity or Manipulation?

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    A recent happening at Smashing Magazine has sparked my interest in the issue of running a design contest in order to solicit designs to use as commercial identity. Smashing posted a request not too long ago asking for submissions in a logo design contest to create the identity of their magazine. It has since ended, and although there were over a hundred submissions, there was also those who disagreed with the process. The discussion in the comments of the first post is indication enough that there is divide among the artistic community as to the proper response when presented with this sort of opportunity.
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    Posted on April 5, 2007 to:

      Interesting Design
  • Nooma – Myspace Page Release

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    In the past I have had a strong distaste for Myspace (and still do), often offering free blog designs to my friends for promising to stay off Myspace / delete their current page. Yeah, I guess you could consider mine strong feelings.

    So my friends might be surprised to hear that I actually had a tab containing (nay, restraining) Myspace today. I was taking a look at the recently published Nooma page on Myspace.
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    Posted on March 29, 2007 to:

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  • Alphabet 26

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    This interested the little guy in me who gets excited about fonts. Yeah, I know.

    Alphabet 26 is the brainchild of Bradbury Thompson, and is a project with the goal being to “simplify and improve our alphabet.”
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    Posted on March 1, 2007 to:

      Interesting Design
  • Web Directions North Slides

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    I’m glad I snagged the feed from Web Directions North way back when I did. Even though I didn’t go to the conference I enjoyed browsing the presentation slides that they put online today.

    Download the Web Directions North presentation slides on their website. I hope you will have as good a time with them as I did. The slides from “Disciplined Designer” and “Finding Creativity” were easily my favorites.

    Posted on February 14, 2007 to:

      Asides Dorky Code Interesting Design resources
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    My name is Ryan Imel, and I'm a web designer/developer working as a freelancer full time. I also manage to blog here and there. You can read more about me on (duh!) the about page.

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