Reading

Blogs, design journals, newspapers, magazines... this listing collects articles of interest from all over the web.

Poke around, click-through to original articles, comment, and come back as often as you like.

Posts are syndicated via my shared notes in Google Reader.

(Web developers: this is an incredibly streamlined approach to blogging, enabling one-click content-creation while web-browsing from any device. Check it out.)

Can brands really sell ‘authenticity’?

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Ted Wright (Fizz) on PBR’s successful word of mouth resurgence, apparently fueled by authentic ‘authenticity’ itself. Who’s buying capital-A Authenticity anymore? And who sees “turning washing machines in to beer coolers at Vice magazine parties” as nailing that?

Fair-to-Use Shepard Fairey Illustration

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Feel free (and fair) to use this illustration re: Fairey's fair-use dispute over the iconic "Hope" poster's origins. (Hi-res image added to the media commons and Fairey Wikipedia page, or email me for alt formats).

"Usability Testing Demystified" Dana Chisnell, A List Apart

Teams that have lots of data make better design decisions. Nine times out of ten, that data comes from some kind of usability testing.

Patrick Swayze loses battle with cancer - The Globe and Mail

@Jackie: Actor who became an instant heartthrob with Dirty Dancing refused to be typecast in later roles

Ad Slider | 2009 CMA Awards

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Presentation Tip #34: if your creative pitch meeting is bombing 'cause the client wants you to reign it in, demo this CMA "ad slider" to bring everyone back together.
Clients. Agencies. Win-Win. Sure, that’s the thought, but how do you properly illustrate the perfect balance between strategy and creativity? A few different ways, actually. Enjoy.

Information-rich and attention-poor - The Globe and Mail

Coping with the troubling tradeoff between depth of what we know and how fast we retrieve it may require something like peripheral intellectual vision.

MIT Visualizing Cultures

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What is Visualizing Cultures?

The ironic cloud—By D. Graham Burnett and Jeffrey Andrew Dolven (Harper's Magazine)

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"Irony is a powerful and incompletely understood feature of human dynamics. A technique for dissimulation and "secret speech," irony is considerably more complex than lying and even more dangerous..."

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