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Joseph Heller wrote an entire (astounding) book on Catch-22, but the always-fun This Is Broken website does it in one small photograph. Go look at “Scissors packaging at Staples.”

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Yesterday was the first day of the new Wall Street Journal. Mostly, the changes focused on the print edition, which got smaller, physically. While the change was initiated to save $18M a year in newsprint costs, I think the end result is attractive and useful, mostly because it’s better in the hand and on the [...]

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At work, I need to pick the right forum software to run on OpenDNS.com. We’ve discussed the possibilities informally a few times, but the burst of activity — and resulting customer support — triggered by two print articles made this project more important. I’m going to share my research and the final decision in a [...]

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I pre-ordered Edward Tufte’s Beautiful Evidence from Amazon. After reading two of his earlier books (I own Visual Display), I was looking forward to his first in years. Bottom line… the book is beautifully made, and two chapters shine, but this tome feels more like a collection of uneven essays than the tour-de-force of his [...]

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In Design Observer, Michael Bierut shares The Mysterious Power of Context, which muses on logo design and fonts, with a larger eye on brand identity. He cites Paul Rand (new to me) in a few sentences which reminds me that some decisions are just not that important in the long run. In the world of [...]

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