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The Big Picture
- Large Hadron Collider ready to restart
- The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) says it expects to restart the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) by this weekend after more than a year of repairs. The 27 km (17 mi) particle accelerator was launched last year, but suffered a failure from a faulty electrical connection, damaging 53 of the smasher's 9,300 superconducting magnets. Repairs are now completed, and the plan is to begin injecting protons into the LHC this weekend, on the path to search for particles such as predicted-yet-unobserved Higgs Boson. Collected below are some photographs of the repairs, and of the LHC and some of its experiments in various stages of construction. (30 photos total)
Combining two major ATLAS inner detector components. The semiconductor tracker is inserted into the transition radiation tracker for the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. These make up two of the three major components of the inner detector. They will work together to measure the trajectories produced in the proton-proton collisions at the centre of the detector when the LHC is switched on. Photo taken on February 22nd, 2006. (Maximilien Brice, © CERN)
The Ministry of Type
- Making The Complex of All of These
I got the link to this video on YouTube via Jason Santa-Maria on Twitter. It’s compiled from around 3000 images taken over 2 months documenting the creation of 35 hand-made books at the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY. There’s a website with more info and clearer photos here. The whole thing is lovely and worth watching — note especially the attention to detail with the thread colour for the binding and the creation of the headband. These images are all from the video:
XCD Center for Cross Cultural Design
- Designing for Humans: The Average American
- Entry #2 The Average American is female. When I’ve mentioned this to groups of females in the US, they applaud - women as majority. When I mention this to males in the US, they also applaud - under the misconception, I suppose, that their odds of getting a date have suddenly increased. The fact that the [...]
- Finding your Rwanda: Must We Fail .to Succeed?
- Journal Entry from the Ruggerero Genocide Survivors’ Village Project Excited to deliver the materials created by the senior graphic design class at Drexel University, I was back in Rwanda this past June. The class had worked hard to complete the assignment funded by the Sappi Foundation Grant Ideas that Matter to develop an identity and brand tools [...]
Design Observer
- Today, 11.21.09
- Each morning, before starting work, I spend 30 minutes looking for images that are beautiful, funny, absurd and inspiring. Here's TODAY.
- Aspen Design Summit: Initial Report
- Initial report on the 2009 Aspen Design Summit, sponsored by AIGA and Winterhouse Institute.
Design Bump
- Making an Interactive Picture with jQuery
How to piece together an interactive picture that contains tooltips and popup boxes.
- Forgiveness in UI design
Users make mistakes, no matter how good your user interface is designed. But there is something you can do about it. There are approaches you can use to allow users to recover from errors, or even better to prevent errors. One such approach is called forgiveness. Let's explain it in more detail and see some inspiring examples.
Design Float
- Artistic Expression and Illustration of Alexis Marcou
- This roundup includes some of illustration made by Alexis Marcou. He produced a range of illustrations to come with his typeface called "fuel".
4 Vote(s) - 16 Amusing Mickey Mouse Wallpapers
- Many generations (including me) grew up on watching the Mickey on the Disney channel and reading his comic books in bed. Mickey Mouse made his first
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Web Designer Wall
- Coding Clean and Semantic Templates
- If you are the guy who uses <div> tag for everything, this post is for you. It focuses on how you can write clean HTML code by using semantic markups and minimize the use of <div> tag. Have you ever edited someone’s templates, don’t those messy tags drive you crazy? Not only writing clean templates [...]
- 5 Simple, But Useful CSS Properties
- This post is about 5 useful CSS properties that you should be very familiar with, but will most likely rarely use. I’m not talking about the new fancy CSS3 properties. I’m referring to the old CSS2 properties such as: clip, min-height, white-space, cursor, and display that are widely supported by all browsers. So, don’t miss [...]
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Voice: AIGA Journal of Design
- Marking in L.A.: An Interview with François Chastanet
- Gangs use graffiti to leave their mark, but does the writing on the wall tell another story? Heller examines the calligraphic style called Cholo.
- Case Study: National Park Foundation micro site
- Recently, FL2 and Modernista! partnered to create a site to bring visitors into the nearly 400 protected parks in the United States.
- The Employee/Employer Relationship at Design Firms
- A design firm’s greatest assets are its human resources, but how do you attract and keep creative talent?
- Chapter Spotlight: AIGA Austin
- What has AIGA Austin accomplished recently? What is “Design Ranch”? And (most importantly) what playlist best represents their chapter? Find out in the first of AIGA Charlotte’s new Chapter Spotlight series!
- 21 Writing Prompts for Design Students
- Students don’t like to write, you say? Maybe it’s the assignments that are the problem. Barringer proposes 21 ways to inspire student writing.
- Share your AIGA stories
- Whether it’s been personally, as a company or as part of your community, we’d like to hear how AIGA has benefitted you! Read stories from across the country and share your own.
You the Designer
- Mozilla Creative Design Contest
- In celebration of Mozilla’s Firefox web browser turning 5 years old, the Mozilla Creative Collective are hosting a poster design competition. The contest description states “The winning design will be featured on Mozilla websites and merchandise, and the winning artist will be highlighted on the Creative Collective homepage and the Mozilla Blog.” This is an [...]
- 38 Randomly Awesome Movie Posters
- Movie poster designs have always intrigued me. Although the studios often spend millions in dollars for advertising a movie, for some odd reason we have a hard time seeing good poster designs. We figured it would be necessary to highlight the movie posters that actually turned out great. We’ve collected 38 awesome poster designs from [...]
A List Apart
- On Web Typography
- Until now, chances are that if we dropped text onto a web page in a system font at a reasonable size, it was legible. But with many typefaces about to be freed for use on websites, choosing the right ones to complement a site's design will be far more challenging. Many faces to which we’ll soon have access were never meant for screen use, either because they’re aesthetically unsuitable or because they’re just plain illegible. Jason Santa Maria, a force behind improved type on the web, presents qualities and methods to keep in mind as we venture into the widening world of web type.
- Real Web Type in Real Web Context
- Web fonts are here. Now that browsers support real fonts in web pages and we can license complete typefaces for such use, it's time to think pragmatically about how to use real fonts in our web projects. Above all, we need to know how our type renders in screens, in web browsers. To that end, Tim Brown has created Web Font Specimen, a handy, free resource web designers and type designers can use to see how typefaces will look on the web.