“Blessed indeed is the spirit that the poor possess for it is a revolutionary spirit that challenges the political and economic assumptions that do not match with God’s alternative kingdom.”
October 15, 2011
bible / jesus / new testament / poverty
Items of Interest
Collecting amazing and interesting things on the web.
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Jason Fried lists the kind of questions he uses in reviewing a design. Many designers ask most of these questions most of the time, whether internally or externally, but I think it’s fantastic to have a list like this to refer to.
October 15, 2011
“In a wonderful addition to our ongoing interview series, Frederica Mathewes-Green has responded to your questions about Orthodox Christianity with all the grace and wisdom that has made her such a respected figure in the religious community. “
October 14, 2011
“Make beautiful maps. Share them anywhere.”
October 13, 2011
design / maps / visualization
Designer Mark Boulton is part of a project to redesign CERN’s website, and writes about the processes they’ve been going through the last few months to find out who uses the site, why they use it, etc.
October 13, 2011
content strategy / design / information architecture / personas / user experience
Part three of a series investigating how to do responsive images when thinking of mobile devices first. People have been discussing the downsides of different methods, and this aims to take an in depth look at what to do.
October 12, 2011
design / html / javascript / mobile / performance / responsive design
Part two of a series investigating how to do responsive images when thinking of mobile devices first. People have been discussing the downsides of different methods, and this aims to take an in depth look at what to do.
October 12, 2011
design / html / javascript / mobile / performance / responsive design
Part one of a series investigating how to do responsive images when thinking of mobile devices first. People have been discussing the downsides of different methods, and this aims to take an in depth look at what to do.
October 12, 2011
design / html / javascript / mobile / performance / responsive design
“Back in the early 1980s, Dieter Rams was becoming increasingly concerned by the state of the world around him – ‘an impenetrable confusion of forms, colours and noises.’ Aware that he was a significant contributor to that world, he asked himself an important question: is my design good design? As good design cannot be measured in a finite way he set about expressing the ten most important principles for what he considered was good design. (Sometimes they are referred as the ‘Ten commandments’.)
October 10, 2011
“So all this has me thinking that we need a confessing movement. We need a movement in which we start by confessing our part in the suffering we have perpetuated in our efforts to escape suffering ourselves. ‘Not my banker brother, not my stockbroker sister, but it’s me, oh Lord, standing in the need of prayer.’”
October 8, 2011