The MacSlash.com website, a sister website of SlashDot ::: www.macslash.org
The Mac OS X apps website
A useful source of Open Source Mac OS X applications ::: www.macosxapps.com
The IBM Open Source website
The IBM Open Source website ::: http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource
What is Open AFS?
What is Open AFS? ::: http://www.openafs.org
Colour use in PDA-Mobile article
An interesting article in 2000 which comments on the use of colour in PDA/Mobile technology. It makes references to the use of colour in PC Applications.
The article was titled ‘Readers divided on color debate’ and was written by Keith Shaw ::: www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/mobile/2000/0904mobile1.html
The US disability act in 2001
An interesting article on Accessiblity Standards By Mark Gibbs in ‘Network World Fusion’. The article comments on the US dissability act put forward in 2001 ::: www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/web/2001/00948166.html
The Meaning of Colour for Gender
An interesting article by Natalia Khouw on ‘The Meaning of Color for Gender’. ::: www.colormatters.com/khouw.html
Passion Pictures' ad of David Beckham metal robotic leg
A look at Passion Pictures’ TV animated ad on the BBC’s World Cup coverage and the David Beckham metal robotic leg caricature. ::: www.computerarts.co.uk/news/story.asp?newsFeature=32346
Towards a User-Friendly Web seminar overview
Some reports from the ‘Towards a User-Friendly Web’ one-day seminar on April 7 2000, Amsterdam ::: www.internet-usability.com/Reports.htm
Revisit the 'Fuse98:BeyondTypography' website
I revisit the ‘Fuse98:BeyondTypography’ website. Fuse98 was a series of Design lectures and presentations in San Francisco in 1998 ::: www.fuse98.com
Colour Study by John Warwicker – director of Tomato
A series of images on a Colour Study by John Warwicker, director of Tomato UK. The images are a collection of colour differences between different cities. It is interesting to note that Warwicker is legally colour blind. :: http://studio.adobe.com/explore/gallery/tomato/page12.html
Below is a summary from the June 2001 issue of Creative Review where they profiled graphic designer John Warwicker, co-founder with Steve Barker of the influential design group Tomato.
Born in 1955, Warwicker studied graphic design at Camberwell School of Art, London, and Birmingham Polytechnic. He was a member of Fruer with Karl Hyde and Richard Smith (1980-1983), and creative director of Da Gama (1981-1984). He served as head of Art and Video at A&M Records (1984-1987), and creative director of Vivid I.D. (1987-1991). Tomato was launched in 1991. Warwicker reveals that he is completely colour blind, and that he has been working on a philosophy and art book, ‘Wordless Things: The Floating World Ukiyo-e’ for the past twenty years.
The 2002 Designer and Art Directors Award winners
The 2002 British Designer and Art Directors Award winners ::: www.dandad.co.uk/awards_frame.html
Risk Strategies in a turbulent world article
An interesting article on Risk Strategies in a turbulent world ::: www.mckinseyquarterly.com/article_page.asp?ar=1195&L2=21&L3=37
Learning Unix for Mac OS X book
Global statistics on web users April 2002
Some global statistics on web users in April 2002. The worldwide Internet population reached 323.7 million users ::: www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905357952&rel=true