If you are a professional web designer or developer: What do you consider the current top 5 or so websites in terms of visual design?
posted by signal
on Sep 26, 2008 -
11 answers
Few books have given me as much sheer joy as Bringhurst's "The Elements of Typographic Style". Tufte's "Visual Explanations" is also up there in terms of content and presentation. What other exceedingly well researched, written and designed non-fiction books would you recommend for somebody interested in Design, Architecture, Programming, Information Visualization, Maps, Math, Music and Science?
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posted by signal
on Jun 27, 2007 -
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I am looking for short videos | animations that show good information design. They could be scientific, engineering, educational or even artistic, as long as they provide clear demonstrations and explanations about dynamic processes, and do so with some graphic / 3d / animation flair.
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posted by signal
on Apr 29, 2005 -
6 answers
Where could a young, devilishly handsome architect find
free 3d models of office and residential buildings to download, preferably in 3ds or DXF format?
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posted by signal
on Aug 9, 2004 -
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To all the architects and designers in here, re:
Proportions; do you use the geometric proportion systems we were taught in school (Golden Mean, Harmonic Mean, etc.), or do you just use eyeball based intuitive proportions?
I have been recently developing a house using a Modulor-ish system (based on 320cm) and wonder what the rest of you people use.
posted by signal
on Jun 8, 2004 -
16 answers
What are your favorite fonts when designing for the web and why?
Oh, and what does the word "optical" mean when it's part of the name of a font?
posted by signal
on Jan 31, 2004 -
8 answers
As a budding web designer, what are good sites to steal ideas from? Hopefully ones that update frequently and cover a wide range of style / technologies, though minimalism/CSS is where I'm at right now.
posted by signal
on Jan 12, 2004 -
26 answers
