Category: design
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Geek Posters
At least a couple of these amazingly geeky posters are derived from projects at VisualComplexity, the site taking on the task of visualising complex relationships from all walks of life. My favourites, or at least the most interesting, are those showing the evolution of various programming languages; starting with COBOL back in the mid-1950s. There…
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Designing Your Résumé (CV)
I’ve just written a post all about résumés – how to write them, design them, and how to figure out if you’re really after a new job or a career change: For those of us stuck in the formal, corporate world (for now), résumés (CVs) are a fact of life that we usually try to…
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Visualising Complex Relationships
Complex networks are everywhere. From the moment we wake we are surrounded; from public transport systems to ‘real-life’ (shock horror!) social networks. They exist, but how can we visualise these in an efficient and succinct manner? That’s the challenge VisualComplexity has taken on. And won. VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone…
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MAD Magazine’s Fold-Ins
I like how MAD Magazine’s ‘fold-ins’ were used to bring another dimension to the illustrations… A classic feature of MAD magazine, and arguably the best thing in it, fold over the pages to reveal a hidden image and message by artist Al Jafee. We were left a bit confused by some of the more US-centric…
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Presentation Masterclass
LifeHack has just started what I hope will become an informative and useful series entitled Presentation Masterclass, courtesy of Rowan Manahan. Audiences are so deluged with advertising messages and radio jingles, with phone calls, voicemail, email, SMS and IM, with… stuff in their personal lives that unless you, the presenter, are wowing them with every…