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The first in a three-part series on standard screen patterns has been posted. This is a part of the upcoming Design Web Interfaces book.

We’re All Gonna Die is 100 meter-wide image of 178 people photographed from a bridge in Berlin over the course of 20 days (yes, it takes a LONG time to load). I’m not quite sure what’s up with the morbid title, but the people in the image are really interesting.

I realize the hyper-pragmatic might snub the nose at “visual fluff” appearing within a sitemap page. Perhaps the informational scrooge within is just plain irritated with any character perceived as waste… demanding to see only the organizational facts and not a byte more. For the rest of us, I give you my new all-time-favorite site map from Erskine Design.

The History of Visual Communication is a dedicated website by Elif Ayiter that focuses on the history of the translation of ideas, stories and concepts that are largely textual or word based into a visual format

Please welcome Earl…

Flipping Typical is a simple web-based tool that let’s you see what a snippet of text will look like rendered with your system fonts.

So are you more “waterfall” or “agile”?

Applying agile principles to communication design

Gifts From Designers To You: Best Of 2008 | Web Design Ledger

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