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Kindle Review in the Form of a Photo Collage

Nov 25, 2007

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in Books, Branding and Marketing, Business, Design, Images, Interface Design, Language, Personal, Reviews, Technology, The Future, User Experience Design

‘m not going to say much about Kindle — as an iPhone owner, I find both the device and the service colossally dumb. But the breathless excitement over the supposed “death of the book” is even more preposterous, especially to book lovers like my wife and me. For us, books, periodicals, and printed matter of…

In Defense of Graphic Design on the Web

Nov 19, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Art, Branding and Marketing, Business, Design, Education, History, Information Architecture, Information Design, Interface Design, Reviews, Technology, User Experience Design, Web

At the Speak Up graphic design blog, Armin Vit laments the lack of “landmark” or canonical web designs. After giving several examples of iconic designs that are truly landmarks in the history of graphic design, from Paul Rand’s IBM logo in the 1950s to Paula Scher’s Public Theater posters in the 1990s, he writes: Myself,…

Scrubbing the iPhone Scrubber

Nov 14, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Design, Information Design, Interface Design, Music, Reviews, Technology, User Experience Design

Apple discarded the iPod’s signature feature, the scroll wheel, in the iPhone and iPod touch. But the new scrubber bar is almost useless — it’s impossible to move the playhead any less than a few minutes per hop. So I thought I’d fix it.

Georges Seurat Dot Com

Oct 31, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Art, Behavior, Design, Education, History, Images, Information Architecture, Interface Design, NYC, Personal, Reviews, Technology, User Experience Design, Web, Work

It’s hard to understate the pride I felt on behalf of my colleagues at Behavior when I read these words in Friday’s New York Times: “The Museum of Modern Artâ€™s elegantly plain exhibition of Georges Seuratâ€™s drawings begins with an unexpectedly extraordinary moment of computerized art viewing. Seuratâ€™s four surviving notebooks have been converted to…

Lying with (Advertising) Statistics

Oct 30, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Branding and Marketing, Business, Design, Reviews, Science, Technology, TV & Movies, User Experience Design, Web

A running theme here at graphpaper.com is the debunking of shoddy research methodologies and junk science used to lend authority to and help guide decisions in the design professions. I want to encourage my readers, and the industry as a whole, to (a) stop being so gullible about the research they hear about in the…

Subway Orienteering

Oct 17, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Architecture, Design, Information Design, NYC, Reviews, Social Interaction, User Experience Design

The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (the people who run the subways) have done a test installation of a new feature to help riders orient themselves as they exit our often-labyrinthine subway stations. They’re placing sidewalk-level signage to tell riders which way is north and indicating which direction the nearest streets and avenues can be…

Check your Googlepulse

Oct 3, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Branding and Marketing, Business, Design, graphpaper.com, Information Architecture, Personal, Reviews, Social Interaction, Technology

Every person, place, thing, and idea whose name can be found on the Internet has an existence that can be detected and measured by search engines. The relentless spiders of Google will find you and rank you (and let’s leave for another day the techno-philosophical question of whether web pages that have no incoming or…

Inside the Airstream

Sep 29, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Design, Images, Interface Design, Personal, Reviews, User Experience Design

Peggy and I went upstate last weekend for our friend M.River’s birthday party. We gathered at Kate’s Lazy Meadow Motel in lovely Mt. Tremper, New York, owned and operated by Kate Pierson from the B-52’s. We stayed in one of her four (soon to be six) fully-functional vintage Airstream trailers.

TimesSelect is Dead. Times Op-Ed Columnists Become Relevant Again.

Sep 18, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Branding and Marketing, NYC, Politics, Reviews, Storytelling, User Experience Design, Web

The New York Times is ending their TimesSelect “service” as of tomorrow, September 19th. Despite my deep resentment of the whole TimesSelect idea in the first place, I applaud the Times’ decision to end it and to finally align themselves with the way the web’s culture of thought actually works. During the 2004 election cycle,…

The Big IDEA (Conference 2007)

Sep 15, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

in Branding and Marketing, Information Architecture, Interface Design, NYC, Personal, Reviews, User Experience Design

I want to go to the IDEA Conference, which starts in two weeks here in New York. Conferences generally come in two categories. Conferences to meet people who do exactly what you do, and where you learn about how to do what you do better. Conferences to meet people you can do business with, and…

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