Category Archives: Design

Windowshop Beta

“You’re passionate about books, movies, TV, music, and video games. Us too. Enter Amazon Windowshop–a destination for discovering what’s new and hot in the world of movies, music, and more.

We’ve taken out the text and created an immersive experience to help you lose yourself in exploration. Trailers for bestselling movies. Insight into the hottest TV shows and video games. Track samples from Tuesday’s new music releases. Audio reviews of books you should read. Amazon Windowshop lets you get a taste of many titles. They’re here – in one place – and all you have to do is move a few keys to zoom in on whatever flips your switch.”

Prologue is Kyle Cooper

Kyle Cooper specializes in designing title sequences – the short introductions and closings to films, videogames, and television shows that list the names of the cast and crew involved in the production. He orginally founded Imaginary Forces and now runs Prologue. Originally known for the dark opening sequence to Seven, he now has hundreds of titles under his name. In this specialized industry Kyle Cooper is King. 

Check out his work, at Imaginary Forces and Prologue.

Edward Tufte’s One Day Course

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I just attended the one day course, Presenting Data and Information, taught by Edward Tufte. Edward Tufte is widely considered the godfather of information design and has written several books on the subject, including Visual Explanations, Envisioning Information, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, and Data Analysis for Politics and Policy. He writes, designs, and self-publishes his books on analytical design, which have received more than 40 awards for content and design. He is Professor Emeritus at Yale University, where he taught courses in statistical evidence, information design, and interface design.The course itself was very informative and well organized. Mr Tufte is well spoken and engaing due to his passion for teaching on the subject of visualizing data. Not only did everyone receive all four of his published books…as part of the cost of the course, but he actually uses these books as the course material. It was like being back in design school, actually. Continue reading